Supersonic11: SURPRISE! I'm back aren't I?

Bakura: I'm not surprised at all…

Supersonic11: You know, I'll could kill you right now…

Bakura: Go ahead! Or my name isn't Touzouku Bakura!

Supersonic11: You are Touzouku Bakura…

Bakura: Oh. O.o

Supersonic11: Now for the exciting part. Chapter 3 is up and the explanation of the tournament shall be written.

Chapter 3: Invitation. America is the Goal!

The sun was about to rise in the town of Domino. Such crazy events had happened, the phantom striking and his missions succeeded. First he found Yugi and proposed an offer to giving Osiris to Yugi. Then he visited Seto Kaiba, a strong but ruthless being who cares mostly for himself. He also gave the proposal to give God of Obelisk to him. The question is; who will hold the Sun God Ra?

Yugi woke up from his slumber. The millennium puzzle was sitting on the table next to his bed. The sun had shined its rays on it lighting up one side of the puzzle and the other in shadow. The alarm clocked buzzed loudly next to Yugi and at that sound, Yugi tossed and turned in his bed not really wanting to wake up. He reached his hand over and shut the alarm clock off and got up out of bed.

"Geez, another school day." He sighed and went got out his school uniform that he wears on the daily basis. He went to do his usual morning rituals and then got changed to his uniform. A white t-shirt, and a blue button up shirt and blue jeans, the usual school uniform boys had to wear. He took his millennium puzzle and hung it around his neck running downstairs to see his grampa.

"Mornin' Grampa!" Herushed grabbing his bookbag and a piece of toast on the way out the his grampa had prepared. He looked to his grandson and smiled and handed him an envelope.

"Ah! Yugi. This came for you. It's some type of invitation. You should read what it's about." His grandpa gave him the letter and Yugi took it rushing out of the door and on his way to school. He seen his friends as he ran up to them calling out.

"Hey! Guys!" His legs carried him fast, his friends were walking and they turned to him.

"Hey Yuge. What's up?" The blonde haired boy, Joey, looked back with a smile and so did his other friends.

"Hey Yugi, let's not be late for class again. Okay?" The brunette girl, Tea (I know, I forgot how to do the apostrophe on the e) looked to him also smiling sweetly.

"Yeah Yuge, we might get detention if we're late again." The boy with the brown, singled spiked hair stared to his short friend. Trstian was a nice fellow towards Yuge, like Yugi, he wanted to toughen him up.

"I'll try to wake up earlier. Hehehe…" Yugi laughed lightly and smiled back to his friends as they walked inside of the school building, hearing the school bell ring once again.

It was lunchtime and all of Yugi's friends were sitting at the round lunch table together with their food. Yugi took the envelope out of his book bag, presenting it to his friends.

"I got some kind of weird invitation to the United States. My grampa gave it to me this morning." Yugi was scratching his head looking at the invitation and Joey who also took out his invitation showed it to his friends around the table.

"Yeah, I got one too. I guess it's because of Battle City." Joey shrugged his shoulders but he grinned as he felt excitement. "Well, I don't care how I got it because I'm going to win this tournament game! So watch out Yugi!" He laughed along with his friends and Yugi gave him a reassuring smile.

"Yeah, but the thing is that it set one an adventure kind of." Yugi read the directions and rules on the card and it read as followed:

Amercian Duelist Games: Rules

All participants must have a deck consisting of at least 40 cards.

Participants with invitation are only allowed to participate.

All duels will start with 8000 life points.

Participants must earn a total of 10 winners badge at each major city listed below by defeating the leader in each city.

New York City

Philadelphia

Atlanta

Miami

Chicago

Dallas

Las Vegas

Los Angeles

Seattle

Honolulu

Only a total of 16 finalists will participate in final rounds of the tournament.

"Wow, the rules seem to be pretty difficuly here Yuge, but don't worry, we will battle in the finals. You can mark my words." Joey nodded to Yugi and he also nodded to his friend. Tea looked to their friends and spoke.

"We'll follow and cheer for you guys. Good luck to you both." Tea smiled and both Yugi and Joey nodded and Tristian gave a thumbs up.

"Don't disappoint us. The both of you." Tristian was pretty confident that both of his friends will most likely succeed. Then, a white spikey haired boy, was near the lunch table over hearing the conversation. He had a faint smile on his face and he was very nervous giving Yugi his invitation too.

"Um…I too was invitated to that tournament. I don't feel like I'll do too good." He laughed nervous and Yugi's friends around the table were shocked. The boy's name was Ryou Bakura. He was a gentle soul who was always kind to everyone. He had the highest grades in the class.

"What?! But how did you get one Ryou?!" Yugi's eyes widened, he had an idea who had that kind of dueling ability to make Ryou be invited to the tournament.

'Maybe the dark spirit is planning something. Don't you think pharaoh?' Yugi spoke to his alter ego within his millennium puzzle and the spirit appeared right beside him within his mind.

'I don't know Yugi. But you do have a point. The millennium ring is still binded to his soul and it's power will not lift. The other items are still out there and we still have our puzzle, and the millennium necklace and rod Marik and Ishizu gave us.' Yami seemed very serious about the situation. He disliked that fact that Ryou was invited to this tournament and it was going to get even weirder. The thought about the phantom renegade made him wonder even more. He was working for someone but it was uncertain.

"We should have fun Ryou. It's only a game." Ryou scratched the back of his head all nervously and he pulled up a chair and sat down with his friends all giving him skeptic looks. Just then, a boy with black long raven hair, sat down next to them and he had a gentle smile on his face.

"Hi everyone." He nodded to everyone. It was the new student, Haku Agata. He had light midnight blue eyes, staring to the people around the table. "So, you to also received an invitation to the American Duelist Games?" Haku spoke clearly in a clam manner.

"Yeah, I heard there will be some skilled duelists entering. Did you receive and invite too Haku?" Yugi asked and Haku gave Yugi an ivitation to the game as well. Everyone around the table were a bit surprised. None of them really have seen Haku duel nor they knew the fact that he was good. Unknown to all, he is the really criminal that hides behind the mask.

"Well, I have been in some local tournaments I guess. They must have seen my record or something." Haku laughed a little nervously, his fellow students around him looked at him weird but they all went back to eating their lunch. Joey was the only one at the table who broke the silence.

"Heh, but then when we met, you gotta get through me and Yugi. And let me tell ya, we won't go easy on ya." Joey gestures to Haku with his his left hand on his bicep showing off his toughness. People laughing around the table and having fun.

"There he goes again. He's bragging thinking that he is number one. All bow to Joey the great." Tristian spoke in a sarcastic tone of voice and Joey looked to his friend's way glaring daggers at him.

"What did ya say? I'll slug ya!" Joey reaches across the table putting his friend in a headlock and Tristian trying to escape. The whole cafeteria looked to their way watching the whole scene of them fighting.

"Okay, calm down you guys. No need to make a scene right?" Tea said stating to the two best friends fighting each other playful. Everyone laughed and was having fun just enjoying the argument.

"Just don't hurt yourselves." Yugi just smiled and then the new boy sitting next to him looked to the millennium puzzle around Yugi's neck.

"Hey Yugi. What's that around your neck? I really didn't get the chance to ask about it yesturday." Haku stared at the millennium puzzle as if he didn't know what it was really.

"Oh this? It's an old artifact my grandpa gave to me. It was really in pieces when I first got it. It took me over several days just to solve but I didn't give up. Quite challenging if you ask me." Yugi laughed, a little nervous but he calmed down. Haku nodded and the other boy sitting next to him, Ryou Bakura, looked to Yugi's millennium puzzle. The voice within his head, thought to himself in private.

'That boy? Could he be after the millennium puzzle as well?' The dark spirit didn't like the fact that Haku asked such a question. 'I will protect Yugi from losing the millennium puzzle. Then, it shall be in my grasp afterwards.'

The bell had rung and lunch was over as all of the students scattered after throwing their lunch away into the trash leaving to complete the day.

"Well Haku, time to go to class. See ya later!" Yugi waved to his friend Haku walking off with his other friends. Haku nodded and seen Yugi off into the distance. Then, Haku's phone vibrated in his pocket, he reached in and looked to the number and accepted the call while no one looks.

"Why are you calling around this time?" Haku sounded a bit more serious hearing his boss's voice on the other line.

"You've delivered the message right?" The female's voice on the other line spoke to her employee.

"Yes. Yugi is competing in the American Tournament. I assure you he will be a finalist." Haku nodded and awaited his boss's answer.

"Good. Then the ten leaders shall await for his presence and test his skill to see if he is ready." The woman hung up the phone and she sat back in her chair. She was located across the Pacific Ocean in the country in which the tournament was located. It was in a major city in California, which was across the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco, was the office of Van Damm Industries located. The woman had blonde hair tied in a bun with brown eyes, 6'0, and a grayish office suit for women with a short skirt. A smile appeared on her lips looking to the card in which was delivered to her just recently. "So, the Sun God Ra is that powerful. I ponder its abilities. I heard that it's in a different language but I don't see it." She looked carefully at the card looking for any contents on it. It only displayed its unknown attack and defense points and nothing else.

"Vega! When is the tournament supposed to start?" Another female had barged in the room, she wore glasses and she was only 5'5. She had short brown hair in which came to her shoulder. She had blue eyes in which was fixed on her boss. She was holding a clip board with the name of duelists in the tournament.

"The games will start tomorrow Shina. We need to be on top of our rival companies like Industrial Illusions and Kaiba Corp. I know Kaiba has an Amercian branch. And I know where his branch company is located. Kaiba will accept the duelist invitation and he will play by my rules." Vega Van Damm, the CEO of Van Damm Industries, spun her chair towards the window looking outside with grin. In her thought, by tomorrow, the whole city will be flocked with duelists. Vann Damm Industries is a computer technology company trying to rival Kaiba Corp's techonolgy and Industrial Illusion. "Shina, I shall appoint you to be the leader of the Los Angeles duel area. Make sure you duel Kaiba and defeat him as well."

"Yes ma'am!" Shina Long, an assistant of Vega who was willing to do anything for her boss. She wasn't really much of a duelist but her orders were orders and she must defeat the badge of Los Angeles. "What about the Phantom Renegade?"

"He's still on our side. As long as we hold what he wants, he'll remain on our side." Vega snickered to herself and turned her chair around looking to Shina and spoke. "Don't worry about him Shina. We'll worry about his situation later. As long as he did our job." Shina nodded and then, the phone rang on Vega's desk. She looked to the phone and picked it up speaking. "Hello…?"

The final bell rang and everyone had headed out of the school preparing vacation. This tournament was going to be big and also the biggest talk of the city. Yugi looked to his friend pondering to himself about the masked person and he spoke.

"Guys. Have you heard of the 'Phantom Renegade?'" He asked looking kind of worried. His friends gave him a look as if he had no idea what he is talking about.

"Sorry Yuge, never heard of the guy. What about him?" Joey looked to his little friend and Yugi took out only Saint Dragon – God of Osiris from his pocket.

"Look at this. This is the only Egyptian God Card I'm left with last night. Some masked figure took two of my Egyptian God Cards after defeating him in a duel. What did he need them for?" Yugi put the card god suggesting that he should protect it from anyone else that might be after it.

"Whoever that masked freak is, he won't get away with it." Tea clenched he fist looking to Yugi and he nodded to her, still thinking about the many things. "We'll all go to the opening ceremonies of that tournament. You said in class that it's tomorrow right?"

"Yeah, but the thing is that everyone starts in a certain area. So, Joey will be in a different place than me. Who knows when we'll meet along the way." The rest of his friends agreed with Yugi all looking to each other. After walking but so far, everyone had left to go in their own direction. Yugi was walking to his house and he entered seeing his grandpa preparing dinner. "Grandpa! I'm home!"

"Ah. Welcome home Yugi. How was your day? Did you see anyone else competing in that American Tournament?" His grandpa asked quite curiously and Yugi responded.

"I learned Haku and Joey were both invited to the duelist tournament. I guess that means I have to better myself. Mostly it's because I need to get the Egyptian God Cards back." Yugi looked to his grandpa seriously and his grandpa was shocked.

"The God cards stolen?! Who could have done such a thing? How will you get them back?!" His grandpa was very confused about the situation but Yugi wasn't too sure.

"I don't know but whoever has done it, I will get them back, no matter what!" Yugi declared and he went upstairs to his room. His grandpa looked from behind and went back to what he was doing. Yugi sat on his bed and layed down sighing. His parter Yami formed an astro form next to his partner sitting on the bed.

'This masked man Yugi, we can't let him get away. The Egyptian Gods are important to uncover my memories.' Yami spoke in a usual serious manner. Both of them knew that the Egyptian Gods were the key to uncovering the pharaoh's memories.

'I know, but how can we find him if we have no idea where he will strike?' Yugi posed a good point but then an idea came to his partner.

'I know that he will be in this tournament overseeing everything. I know he has the Egyptian Gods in his possession. I don't think he has such power to even control them.' Yami sighed and he stared to Yugi's deck that reseted on a desk across from Yugi's bed. They knew what must be done and they have to do. What will become of the Egyptian God cards? Who is on the phone with a boss of a very important company? What is it that Vega is holding that makes the phantom renegade work for her? The day is done for now, everyone rests to prepare for the next day.

Supersonic11: That is the end of the chapter folks. What did ya think?

Bakura: I finally get my chance! Yesh! –pumps his fist in the air-

Supersonic11: ;

Bakura: Heh! I win!

Supersonic11: I'm the author dammit and I have the power to kill you in my story!

Bakura: -gulps- o.o;

Supersonic11: Hope all of you like it. Until next chapter! BYE!!