Thanks for waiting and welcome to chapter 4, enjoy.
Back at Duel Academy.
Everyone in Sheppard's office could not help but wonder who Kaiba had been referring to, when he said, 'try contacting Wheeler'. The name sounded familiar, but they could not place where they had heard it before. Suddenly a thought came to Jaden.
"Wheeler. I remember now. That duelling monkey I faced during my first year," remembered Jaden out loud. "Wait, does that mean we have to find the monkey in order to find Yugi? "
Everyone laughed a little at Jaden's suggestion, before Alexis spoke up.
"Jaden, I don't think the monkey is who Mr Kaiba was referring to," said Alexis still laughing a little.
"Well then I have no idea," said Jaden now more lost than ever.
Suddenly, Jesse remembered the name of a certain Pro Duellist, who had made a name for himself all around the world.
"Could he have been talking about Joey Wheeler," suggested Jesse.
Everyone turned to Jesse, as he may have found the answer.
"Joey Wheeler? The pro duellist from Domino City? The man hailed as the 3rd greatest duellist in the world by Maximillian Pegasus himself?" asked Hassleberry.
"Well, that's the only other Wheeler I can think of," answered Jesse.
Sheppard had a feeling this was the answer, especially considering what he knew about Joey Wheeler.
"What makes you think he's the right person?" asked Syrus.
"Well Syrus, if you do a quick internet search on Joey Wheeler, you'll find that not only did he go to school with Yugi, they were best friends who competed in various duelling tournaments together. From what I've read, he placed second in Duellist Kingdom and forth in the Battle City competition!" explained Sheppard.
"Wow sounds like an amazing duellist," stated Jaden, hoping that after this crisis was over, he could challenge Joey to a duel.
"Do you have a way to contact him?" asked Alexis, as if it was their main priority.
"Hopefully yes," said Sheppard walking to his desk and pulling out an address book. "I have the contact details of many different Pro Duellists, in the hopes that I can get them to visit the academy".
Sheppard began flipping through the address book, looking as hard as he could for the name Joey Wheeler. After five minutes, he found the name he was looking for. Sheppard went back too the video phone and dialled the number.
Somewhere in Domino City
Joey Wheeler awoke to the sudden noise, that filled his rather large residential location. He had fallen asleep on the couch in his living room, having been out late the night before. He got up and discovered the ringing was coming from his computer. The caller was an unknown number.
"Forgot this thing, did phone calls," stated Joey groggily before answering. "Hello, Wheeler residence,"
When the screen of the caller came into view, Joey saw a group of people he'd never seen before. He did recognise Jesse, Syrus and Hassleberry from television, but he had never met them in person.
"Joey Wheeler?" asked Sheppard.
"Yeah," answered Joey a little confused.
"My name is Chancellor Sheppard, I'm calling from Duellist academy," said Sheppard.
"You mean that duelling school rich boy built?" asked Joey in an annoyed tone.
"Your mean Seto Kaiba?" asked Sheppard a little confused with Joey's question.
"Yeah. Honestly a duelling academy, neither Yugi or I went to any special duelling school, and where the best," boasted Joey.
"Yes well, on another note Mr Wheeler, we were wondering if you could help us with something," stated Sheppard.
Joey's attitude changed rather abruptly. "What do ya need?" he asked curiously.
"Why don't you tell him Jaden?" asked Sheppard.
Jaden nodded and went to stand in the middle of the screen, so Joey could see him more clearly.
"Joey, we need Yugi's help," stated Jaden.
This caught Joey off guard, as no one had asked him to seek help from Yugi in years. Most people just wanted to bombard Joey with questions, about Yugi's early duelling years.
"Yugi's help? What for?" asked Joey with high interest
"I ran into these two duellists, with abilities beyond anything I've ever seen. They forced me into a shadow duel and I lost. They speared my soul however, so I could give Yugi this message. Unless he defeats them in a duel, the whole world will be doomed!" explained Jaden.
"Well, that's not anything Yugi hasn't stopped before," replied Joey.
"One more thing, do the names 'Marik' and 'Bakura' mean anything to you and Yugi?" asked Jaden, wanting to know a little more about the duellists he faced.
This really caught Joey by surprise. Were they back. Had the evil spirits that consumed the bodies of Marik and Bakura returned. If so, Joey knew the situation was more serious then he originally thought, however he needed a little more confirmation then just names.
"These guys you faced, did they both have white hair, and were they holding different golden items? One holding a golden rod and the other having a golden ring around his neck? Furthermore, did the items have eye symbols?" asked Joey seriously.
"Actually, yeah they did," replied Jaden remembering his duel, "Do you know these guys?"
"Oh yeah, I know them, I also know there not very pleasant," said Joey thinking this must be the spirits of the Millennium Ring and Rod. "Look, Yugi gave me a number to call in case of extreme emergency's like this. I'll ring you back, to let you know whether or not I got in touch with him."
"Thank you so much Mr Wheeler," said Sheppard gratefully.
"Don't worry about it and please call me Joey," stated Joey who then hung up.
After hanging up on the computer, Joey pulled out his phone to call a number he had not called in a long time. Joey knew this was a duel they could win not on their own. Yugi was their best chance of defeating the evil spirits of the Millennium Ring and Rod, assuming what Jaden had said was true, and they had really returned. After dialling, Joey put the phone to his ear and let it ring. With every passing ring, he was afraid there would be no answer. Then the ringing stopped.
"Hello," said a distinctively familiar deep voice on the other end.
"Yugi, is that you?" asked Joey wanting to be sure.
"Joey? What's going on?" asked Yugi happy to be talking to his best friend again.
"I just got a call from duel academy. If what they say is true, then the evil spirits of the Millennium Ring and Rod are back," replied Joey seriously.
Yugi could not believe what he had just heard. How could the evil Millennium spirits be back?
Thanks for reading. I feel this chapter was a little short and was even considering combining it with chapter 3, but in the end I didn't want to make it to long. Thanks again and there's more to come. Furthermore if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them.