Jaden Yuki. That name was familiar. Where had Horus seen that name before? He thought about it long and hard before realizing that he was just standing outside of his room. Horus shrugged his questions away and drifted inside.

Cady and Randy were nowhere to be seen, which was weird. Usually they were hanging out in his room right about now, asking how his detention went. Horus sighed and sat down in a rolling chair before shuffling through his new deck. That brought up another question. What happened to his old one, and how did this one get in his room? Okay, so it was more like two questions.

And the deck itself was weird. Elemental Heroes were a type of monster that was supposed to have died out several years ago. Their production was stopped and the only way to get the cards were to buy or trade them with someone who was willing to get rid of them. Horus never even heard of "Neospacians" before, and a lot of the monsters weren't very strong. Some of the higher-level monsters were, but that's to be expected. The thing that seemed to give the deck most of its firepower were the Polymerization and Fusion cards mixed in with the monsters. But, more than anything, Horus felt like it was...familiar. Like he dueled with this deck before many times.

There was one card kind of sticking out of the top of the deck awkwardly. Horus made a move to look at it, but something stopped him. His fingers wavered over the card for just a moment until Horus remembered seeing the name Jaden Yuki. It was one of the names of the duelists on the misplaced tape yesterday.

Horus dropped to the floor and pulled up the loose board. Underneath it were about five tapes. Horus picked them up and glanced at the sides. All of them were tapes of various duels involving the same kid: Jaden Yuki.

The next few days returned to some semblance of normal. Horus attended (and slept through) class, went to work, and watched duel tapes with Cady and Randy. He didn't work up the nerve to watch tapes where Jaden Yuki dueled. Something felt wrong about it. Like maybe Horus should've known what happened already.

Sadie continued to watch Horus suspiciously. Horus vaguely wondered what made the old woman hate him all of a sudden, but he didn't ask and she didn't tell. He had the feeling that it had something to do with his new deck.

Speaking of, he had some time before Cady and Randy came back from yet another detention. This one was for...too many tardies? Horus would've shared the same fate, but he recently started helping Sadie in the mornings as well as the evenings, and she always made sure that he got to class on time.

Anyway, Horus finally had some time to go through his new deck. He sat cross-legged on the floor and sorted through each card. The deck kind of seemed all over the place. There were Elemental Heros and Neospacians. Most of the spells and traps were used specifically for certain monsters or for fusion summons. But then there were also a couple cards that were kind of random.

One of those cards was Yubel, the duel monster that Horus thought he saw in his room a while ago. The other was split. It reminded Horus of Change of Heart, but it wasn't. One side of the picture showed a bright, happy kid with brown hair and brown eyes. The other was an armor-bearing, stoic-looking, golden-eyed warrior. The card was simply called "Supreme King." Supreme King of what? What made it even weirder was that it was a monster, but it couldn't attack or defend.

Horus looked at the special effects. When the Supreme King was on the field, a monster of any level could be directly summoned to the field from Horus' hand once per turn, no sacrifice required. Not only that, but Horus could also choose any spell from his deck to use. Unfortunately, the Supreme King came with a price: it required three sacrifices to summon and took two hundred lifepoints every time Horus ended his turn.

Well, it was only natural for a card that powerful to have drawbacks. If it didn't, it'd be illegal! Horus let out a half-hearted laugh and gathered his cards together before collapsing on his bed and waiting for Cady and Randy to show up.