Hello everyone! Glad you all liked the first chapter. I saw that many of you are pondering though what is going on. Trust me, all will be explained soon enough. But thank you all for the good start. Oh, and btw, hopefully, I'll be able to post three chapters a week. I know that's not as many as Tournament of Power, but it'll be alright. The chapters are somewhat longer, although the first few weren't, but the rest were pretty long. So, trade off quantity for quality, lol. Ok, now to answer my first reviews on the sequel.

Tomb Robber Vicky: I liked the DOMA series a good bit as well. It kind of kicked things up a notch, and made you ponder things about Yami. Also, it was a bit darker than the other seasons, but turned out alright in the end. I guess that's maybe why I like GX so much as well.

Isis the Sphinx: Thanks for the compliment, and you'll find out where the storyline is taking place soon. It'll become rather evident in the near future.

Metal Overlord 2.0: Indeed Illidan has caught Dartz's eye. Darcia is an interesting character too, and his role in this story will be revealed. That's a nice idea, but I doubt Dartz would waste his time using Egyptian monsters. He seemed more focused on getting the Great Leviathan back up and running. Also, if he wanted a real monster, he knows of another that a certain person has in his deck. Thanks, and I do promise to catch up on your story. I may get a chance very soon, hopefully.

Ultimate Legendary Master: Thanks for the compliments.

pink-kiss-candy: Watches doctor set fire to teddy bear company. Ryon: Gulp "He's evil!" Of course he is Ryon. Do you think Marik would hire him if he wasn't? Ryon: Grumbles "This is your fault!" Nah, not my fault you got in trouble. You shouldn't have killed that little old lady. Ryon: "IT WAS YOU, NOT ME!" Hmm, you're right. Oh wait, no you're not. It was you, automatically, due that you're 'evil.' Laughs evilly at Ryon as he slams his head into a wall, instantly knocking him unconscious.

Well, that's all for the first reviews. I can't wait to see the next batch of reviews. Till then though, everyone enjoy. Later.

Chapter 2

It was a beautiful day out, but to one dark brown eyed young man, it couldn't begin to compare to the beauty of the woman walking beside of him. Her beautiful brown hair, which now had pink highlights in her bangs due that the two of them had been preparing to visit an anime convention before leaving home, shone brightly in the sunlight. Her light brown eyes looked as if they didn't have a concern in the world.

Sighing, Illidan couldn't think of anyone else on this planet he'd rather be with on such a wonderful day than Marie. He was glad now that she had come with him on this trip to America.

At thought occurred to him then that it had been exactly a month and a half since the two of them had competed in the Tournament of Power. He smirked, remembering how he had learned right before the tournament that he was the reincarnation of Illidan Stormrage, the Royal Seal Master of Egypt, who had lived five millennia ago. He then smiled again, remembering how Marie was also the reincarnation of his love from that time period as well, and how the two had found love again in this lifetime.

He then frowned, remembering how the tournament had been so tough on him and her. They had dueled their way to the top, against all odds. They had beaten some of the top duelists in the world in order to complete that mission. The list of names of some of the top competitors still was fresh in his mind. Yugi Moto, Joey Wheeler, Seto Kaiba, Bandit Keith, Noa Kaiba, Mai Valentine, Bakura Ryou, and Marik Ishtar. Those were the people he had beaten, including Marie.

In the end, he had won the tournament, and saved the entire world from destruction from the ancestor that he had beaten five millennia ago. That ancestor was Gozaburo Tark, who had survived his defeat five millennia ago by sealing some of himself within the evil Millennium Item known as the Millennium Crown. Once Illidan had beaten Gozaburo this time around, he made a wish on the Millennium Crown, destroying it and all it's evil once and for all.

After the tournament, life had returned to normal as it could get. Illidan and Marie had returned home to Kyoto, Japan, for some much needed rest and relaxation. About two weeks after returning, Illidan had proposed to her, asking her to become his wife in this lifetime. She had gladly accepted, and the two were planning on marrying within the year.

Things were going great till he received a call one day from someone he had known in the ancient past. Maximillion Pegasus, the reincarnation of Pegasus from five millennia ago, called him about a week before this day. He had made some small talk with Illidan, asking how he had been, how he had felt about his big win at Gozaburo's tournament, and other minor things. Then out of the blue, he asked if Illidan still had possession of the fourth Egyptian God Card, Anubis, God of Life and Death. Illidan had told him truthfully yes, and Pegasus then asked if he could come visit him in America, specifically in San Francisco. When asked why there, Pegasus replied simply he had a small branch of his company there that he worked out of from time to time, and just wanted him to come. He had something vital to discuss with Illidan, and told him he needed to come.

Illidan agreed to come on one condition: that Marie was allowed to come with him. Pegasus gladly agreed to those terms and said he would set everything up during the next day or so. He would receive everything he'd need by then. Sure enough, the next day after the phone call, Illidan received two plane tickets to America via Pegasus. He had told Marie the night before, and she was excited too. Still, like Illidan, she was curious to why Pegasus would fly them all the way to America to just talk. The two finally completely gave up on figuring things out and decided to just go. It was for only a week or two possibly, so they figured why not a vacation.

They had arrived just two days before, and had seen the sights around the city. Of course, they had to put their English to good use, seeing how they had no choice but to due that it was America. Few people understood Japanese, so it was customary to speak in English. The two of them had learned it quite well in school, so it was no problem for either to speak it. Today was their third day in America, and they decided to take it easy this day and just walk by the San Francisco Bay area. The next day they would be meeting Pegasus, so they figured a nice day of relaxation before meeting the Duel Monster's creator would be good.

Illidan slightly smirked at the pink highlights in Marie's bangs that were flying freely due to the gentle ocean breeze. They had planned on going to an anime convention before Pegasus had called them to come to America, and Marie had put pink highlights in her hair for it. She had convinced him, grudgingly, to put a few silver highlights within his own brown bangs. In a way, he sort of minded, but for Marie, he'd do anything, especially when she had given him the cutest puppy dog face when he had refused to do it. He had finally broke down and allowed it, even allowing her to choose the color. She choose silver for him since he liked the show Inuyasha so much. Pink for her, due that she just liked pink and thought it looked nice with her brown hair.

As the two continued on walking, the warm breeze from the ocean continued to blow their hair up once and a while, while making their clothes ruffle in the wind as well. He glanced over at Marie, who had her hand intertwined with his. He sighed happily and smiled.

"What are you smiling about?" she asked with a smirk on her face.

Smiling again, he replied "Just thinking about how happy I always am when I'm with you. It's like nothing in the world but you can have this kind of calming effect on me."

She lightly giggled and hugged his arm, and replied "I know what you mean. Nothing but you makes me feel so happy."

They then heard something that sounded like a small explosion and looked up to see that a crowd was gathered up ahead of them. Curious of what was going on, they walked on towards the crowd and finally pushed their way through to see what was going on.

Once through, they saw what had drawn the crowd. A duel was taking place. The first guy they noticed had black wild spiked hair with a pony tail, and muscular arms and legs. He wore a light blue and white striped headband, a light blue shirt with a white sash at his mid-section and black shorts. His life points read off at 4,400, meaning he was doing pretty good this duel. On his side of the field, he had a field card out known as A Legendary Ocean, which had covered the field in ocean water. His only monsters on the field were a large killer whale that had some kind of plating on it's back. It had a huge crane also, a group of what looked like possibly missiles on the front of the plating, and a odd looking torpedo on it's belly. After a moment, Illidan had realized this was a monster known as Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness. Also, there was a red headed mermaid on the field, who appeared to be holding a sword, seemingly as if she was a knight or something. Moments later, Illidan figured it was a monster known as Mermaid Knight.

What surprised Illidan and Marie the most though was who was facing this guy. There on the other side of the field was a young man with white-silver shoulder length hair in a green and white striped shirt with grey shorts. His life points were currently at 4,400 as well, meaning him and the other boy were currently tied at this point in the duel. His field consisted of a trap card known as Gravity Bind, a spell card called Level Limit – Area B, a face down monster, and some other face down spell or trap card.

After a moment, Illidan said to Marie "It's Bakura."

She nodded, agreeing, but was looking up in the air at something else. This caught Illidan's attention and he looked up too. There, he saw what she had seen.

In the air were several spheres of flames. They had formed a circle around the two duelists, and there seemed be another sphere there, but it wasn't on fire. It was just hovering there, waiting for something.

His concentration was then broken when he heard the black haired boy say "It's my move, and I'm going to use it to stop you this turn before that magic card activates. First, I'll play the spell card Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw two new cards."

The young man drew and smiled greatly at his new cards, and said "Now, I sacrifice my Mermaid Knight in order to summon Levia-Dragon – Daedalus (2600/1500) to the field!" The mermaid faded away in a flash of light and large blue snake like dragon with a violet colored belly and red scales on the top of his back appeared in her place.

The silver headed boy smirked, and said "How soon you forget that your monster is put into defense mode thanks to my spell card."

Smirking back, the black haired boy replied "Oh, I know all about that, but don't think I've forgotten. By the way, my dragon gains 200 points thanks to my field card (2800/1700). Of course, you knew that much. But you may not have known that I'm about to end this duel! I now activate Levia-Dragon's special ability. By sacrificing my field card to the Graveyard, I can now destroy everything on the field except my monster!" The large ocean then disappeared and the large dragon began to roar, as it's mouth opened to reveal a bright glowing light. It then released a powerful blast of blue energy straight at the silver haired boy's field, which would decimate anything and everything in the way.

This didn't seem to bother the silver haired boy though. He smirked, and said "I activate my face down spell card, Emergency Provisions! This card allows me to sacrifice spell or trap cards on my side of the field, and for every one I do, I gain 1000 life points. So, I'll sacrifice both my Gravity Bind and Limit Level – Area B to the Graveyard, boosting my life points by 2000 points, giving me a grand total of 6400 points." Both of the cards on the field then glowed as they faded away and the life point counter on the boy's Duel Disk bumped up by 2000 points. The blast still struck the face down monster, which was quickly revealed to be a small orange fur ball with green arms and feet. It also had three eyes and a set of menacing teeth.

Smirking again, the boy said "By the way, you just helped me out again, because you just destroyed my Sangan (1000/600). Now I get to add one monster from my deck to my hand with 1500 attack points or less. The monster I'll choose shall be Kuriboh, who has a meager 300 attack points, which allows him to qualify quite well for the effect." After adding the card to his hand, the boy then shuffled his deck and placed it back within the deck slot on his Duel Disk.

The black haired boy growled, and then sighed. When he sighed, he closed his eyes and said "I'm finished then. My plan was to bring out another monster from my hand that has 2900 attack points, and then to play the spell card Monster Reborn to bring back my dragon, but it's pointless now. Your life points are too high for me to win. I… I end my turn, meaning I lose the duel."

The silver headed boy nodded, and said "You know that means my Final Countdown is now allowing me to win, right?"

Nodding, the black haired boy replied "Yes, I do. Finish it now, please."

"Final Countdown, end this duel with Splash Down!" commanded the silver headed youth.

The final sphere that Illidan and Marie had noticed earlier that was not lit then caught fire, making all the spheres in the ring seemingly burn brighter. The spheres then came crashing down to the field and struck it, causing a massive explosion and lots of smoke. Wind gusted from the hit, and people in the crowd backed up slightly.

When the smoke cleared, the black haired youth was on one knee slightly panting. He finally stood and smiled, saying "Good duel there. You've taught me here today that I have much more to learn before I ever challenge you again. Thank you."

The silver haired youth nodded, and replied "It was good to duel you Mako. Feel free to duel me again sometime. Till then, farewell Mako. Our paths cross again."

The crowd cheered suddenly for the two duelists. The black haired boy, Mako, smiled and gave a peace symbol and then left. The crowd started to disperse as well, leaving the silver haired youth standing alone.

Illidan looked at Marie and asked "Was that Mako Tsunami?"

She thought for a moment and finally said "I believe it was. Last I had heard of him was when he lost at Battle City. I believe Joey knocked him out of the tournament."

He nodded back to her and said "Let's go see Bakura right quick."

She smiled and replied "Yeah."