Chapter 8
Return of the Millennium Items
While Téa and Mia were walking to the card room, she turned to Mia and said,
"So what's it like to hide your face behind a mask?" while they continued to the room.
"It's wired but seeing everything through a mask is quite the experience but I like it" replied Mia when they came to the card room as the doors opened.
Meanwhile in the Domino city Mall, Mai and Serenity were in the boots and accessories department, Mai turned to Serenity, who was looking at the different types of boots and their lengths,
"What shoe size are you Serenity?"
"I'm not sure Mai is there someone who can tell me?" replied Serenity.
A moment or two later both Mai and Serenity turned around and heard Sophia as she said,
"Yes we have a foot analyzer right over here" she explained while she led her over to the machine.
After Sophia, had booted the foot analyzer up she turned to Serenity and said,
"If you're ready Serenity, we'll see what size boot you will need" she explained while Serenity took her trainer and sock off and walked over to the machine.
Just then Serenity placed her foot into the machine where four steel beams blocks tightened themselves at the front, rear and sides of her foot while a green beam of light began to cycle through the different shoe sizes until it suddenly stopped. After it had stopped, the green light radiated on size 7 when Sophia said,
"We'll measure the other foot as well just to make sure" while Serenity took her other sock and shoe off and lowered it into the scanner.
Just then the green scanner measured Serenity's other foot and came out the same. When Serenity removed her foot, Sophia walked off and fetched a pair of size 7 black Thigh high boots and handed them to Serenity who pulled them on and stood up after fastening them up. After Serenity stood up in her new boots she tried to walk but kept stumbling until she finally got the hang of it as she walked back and forth getting the hang of walking in high heel boots where she rejoined Mai and Sophia. After walking around in them she sat down and removed her boots as she said,
"I'll take two pairs please Sophia if that's ok with you Mai?"
"Sure Serenity as I can put it on my credit card" replied Mai happily.
"Right, there are just a couple of things you need now Serenity and they are these" she said while holding out a pair of black fingerless gloves that went past her elbows and a deck holder that was to be worn around the thigh. When Serenity tried the gloves on she loved how they encased her arms and then fastened the deck box around her thigh and allowed Mai to tighten it as she then unclipped it and held it when she took the gloves off and placed them on top of the boots. When Sophia took Serenity's boots, gloves and deck box to the counter Mai took Serenity to a small corner where on the shelves were different types of chokers and necklaces until Mai saw a black one that was like the one she wore as she removed it from the hook it was hanging on. When the girls walked up to the checkout, Sophia already took the store tags off the boots and clothes and placed them into four large paper shopping bags while Mai paid for the stuff by her credit card.
When Serenity and Mai picked the bags up by the handles and walked out of the shop and looked at the clock in the centre of the shopping Mall and went to get something to eat.
Meanwhile Yugi along with Joey, Tristan and Duke was sitting around in the café in the city centre thinking about Nikki and why she was doing this but then Joey said,
"You don't think that someone is controlling her you know like Dartz and Marik did do ya?" he said while Yugi thought about it.
After Yugi had listened to Joey's theory he replied,
"You could be right Joey but what if the Millennium items have fallen into the wrong hands" he said while sitting around.
"How about we go and see Ishizu at the Museum?" said Tristan.
"Good Idea Tristan as I can take you there" continued Duke as they all got up and walked to the nearest parking lot and climbed into Duke's car and drove through the streets of Domino City.
While in the back of Nikki's Game Boutique store Téa and Mia entered the card room as the girls walked up to the computer and powered it up. When Mia had booted the computer mainframe up the same voice said,
"W Welcome to the Card Almanac please state your name"
"Mia Suzuki" while the computer saved her voice patterns as the card database screen appeared while Téa stood behind her.
Just then the computer scanned Mia's eye but couldn't see through the eyes of the mask but then Mia removed her mask as the scanner tried again and this time was able to scan Mia eye and said,
"Process complete booting card Almanac" said the computer as Mia placed her mask back onto her face. After a few minutes the card Almanac booted up and Mia looked up at the big screen and said,
"Computer, search for all Warrior type monsters" when the computer began to load the results.
"Results complete" said the computer just as the warrior cards appeared on screen.
Just then Téa who was standing behind Mia, looked at the cards that she had chosen and said,
"That will be a powerful deck Mia" she said from behind her mask when the computer processed her new deck and after a few seconds the computer stored her deck within its memory and ejected her new deck while it appeared just above her right hand as she reached up and took it out.
When Mia and Téa was done in the card room, Mia ordered,
"Computer shut down" she said while she walked beside Téa and out of the room where Téa turned around and locked the door with Nikki's card key when she turned and led Mia to the library like room that was filled with all the custom duel disks. After Téa had swiped the card key through the slot of the door and pushed them open to reveal the duel disks while both girls walked in. After thinking long and hard about what Duel Disk Mia wanted she finally decided to go for one that suited her new deck.
Just then Mia was now walking with her new duel disk strapped to her left wrist until she was stopped when Téa took a leather deck holder and strap as she fastened it around Mia's thigh and pulled it tight before they left the room and returned to Nikki.
Meanwhile in the Domino City Mall, Mai and Serenity was having something to eat until Serenity said,
"Hey Mai, Would you help me create a deck like yours?" she asked while Mai was drinking her cola from her glass.
Just then Mai replied,
"Sure Serenity, now how about we go and deck you some cards?" she said while Serenity just finished her cola.
"Sure Mai I'm ready" while Mai paid for the meal and picked a couple of the bags up with Serenity's new clothes in and headed towards the door together.
After a long drive to the Domino Museum, Yugi along with Joey, Tristan and Duke where they walked in but was stopped by the security guards until Ishizu in her normal Egyptian style dress walked up and said,
"Stand down at once as they are my friends" she explained while walking up to Yugi and his pals.
Shortly after the security guards walked off and returned to their posts while Ishizu asked,
"Yugi what are you doing here?"
"I wanted to ask you something about the Millennium Items" replied Yugi when looked at her.
"Please follow me Yugi" replied Ishizu, when they walked through to the back of the museum to an open meeting room.
When Yugi and the guys had sat down around a round table where Yugi looked at Ishizu and asked,
"First off thanks for seeing us, and have you heard about Téa?" he asked.
"No, why what's happened to her?" asked Ishizu in reply.
"well you know when we met Nikki at her shops opening, well Téa was dressed as Dark Magician Girl and forgot to pick her mask and hat so she went back to retrieve them until she was abducted and held prisoner…" started Yugi.
"But when me and Yugi went back to see if we could save her, Nikki placed this sort of Latex Dark Magician Girl mask on Téa and she is now one of her slaves…" continued Tristan.
"I see but what is it got to do with me?" asked Ishizu.
"Well, Joey came up with a theory that someone could be using the powers of the Millennium Items on Nikki for their dark plan" said Duke.
"Ok so that you're saying that the Millennium Items might be in the wrong hands" said Ishizu.
"That's the gist of it Ishizu" said Joey.
"You're right to come and see me" said Ishizu while leaning on the small table.
While sitting around the table, Ishizu said,
"A month ago re reopened the temple where Yugi and Atem dueled as a tourist destination but late one night someone broke in and stole the four of the seven Millennium items and they were the rod, eye, key and ring but left just the Millennium puzzle, necklace and Scales in which I have with me" she explained.
"What, you have the Millennium items with you Ishizu" said Joey.
"Yes I have and now here is the Millennium Puzzle Yugi" replied Ishizu after taking it out of a steel briefcase.
After Taking the Millennium Puzzle from Ishizu he pulled it over his head and the around his neck. Just then in the Millennium World Yugi who was ruling as Pharaoh, noticed that the Millennium Puzzle around his neck began to glow as he suddenly felt the bond with Yugi in the mortal realm. A short time later when Atem gathered his royal members of his court and used the power of all seven Millennium Items to open a gateway to the Mortal world when the gate opened to reveal a bright white light as Priestess Isis said,
"Will you be back?" while holding the gate open along with the others.
"Yes Isis I can use the power of the Millennium Items to be here and in the mortal world" he replied as he walked through the gate leading to the mortal world.
While in Domino City Mall, Mai and Serenity walked into a card shop where Yugi and Joey registered for the Battle City finals when something caught Serenity's attention when she walked over to the different decks and packs while Mai walked up to the counter and said,
"Have you got any Amazoness and Harpie Lady cards in stock?" she said while standing in front of the shop attendant.
"Yes we have Miss Valentine would you like them" she said from the other side of the counter.
"Yes Please" just as Serenity walked up to the counter with a deck full of fairy and spellcaster monsters while the shop attendant took out the folder with all the Harpie Lady and Amazoness cards and paid for the entire folders and the decks that Serenity had placed on the glass top.
A short time later, Mai paid for all the cards on her credit card and watched the attendant pack all the cards into a plastic bag and said,
"Before you go Mai may you sign our poster of you?"
"Sure" replied Mai when she took a permanent marker and signed the poster before turning to serenity and walked out with all of Serenity's bags.
When Serenity was getting tired from shopping, Mai decided it was time to go back to Joey's house and help her make a deck unaware that they were being watched by a remote controlled duel monster that was in the shape of a killer needle when they made their way to Joey's.
Meanwhile at Nikki's shop both Téa and Mia was standing in front of their Mistress until she said,
"Téa please take Mia to the dressing room to get ready for your tag duel against Mai and Serenity" while Mia and Téa replied,
"Yes Mistress" they said together where they turned towards the door and left leaving Nikki to follow the Killer Needle spy bug.