"What do you mean she didn't come home?" Jacob questioned, holding the phone to his ear. "Yes, mom, I know. Don't worry. She's probably at the library or something. I'll find her." He hung up.

"You don't think she's at the library, do you?" Scott asked.

Jacob shook his head. "No, she would've told me. We have to find her, dude. Let's go."

The two took off running down the street. The sun was setting and soon it'd be too dark to look for Susan. They soon approached a large group of men in what appeared to be a stand-off from the distance, but as they got closer, they realized the men were engaged in a duel.

Scott and Jacob stopped some feet away, keeping a safe distance.

The blond-haired man had two monsters on his side of the field, while the old guy he was dueling had only one.

"Your monster may be too tough for my Alligator's Sword and my Panther Warrior, but I got just the dragon to stomp it!" Joey picked up a card from the middle of his hand and put it down on his Duel Disk. "Say hello to my Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000), baby! Ohh, yeah!"

Floating out of the portal that opened up from the newly materialized card came a ferocious looking black dragon with blood red eyes, razor sharp teeth, and claws long enough to slice a great white shark in half in one blow.

"Holy *****, I know who that is now!" Jacob exclaimed, his eyes popping with excitement. "That's Joey Wheeler! He came in second at Duelist Kingdom!"

"What's he doing here with those guys in the purple robes? Seems kind of random, don't you think?" Scott added.

Jacob's jaw dropped as Red-Eyes was ordered to attack, blasting the old guy's stone monster away with an incredible fireball. Wow, that's some firepower, alright.

Seeker gleamed over his hand, his eyebrows raising and his teeth showing through his large grin. "Looks like your time is up, Wheeler!"

"What do you mean by that? I've been crushin' ya!" Joey responded, curious as to what the Rare Hunter had planned. Maybe it had to do with the card he had just drawn, or maybe he was simply bluffing.

"I've got the most powerful cards in the game in my hand! You should be familiar with them!"

"Why's that?"

"Your friend Yugi Moto owned them at one point." Seeker snickered deviously. He definitely had something planned.

From the sidelines, Jacob and Scott wondered which cards the Rare Hunter was talking about as well. They tried visualizing the cards Yugi was known for. Dark Magician? That obviously couldn't be the case since Dark Magician was only one card, and the Rare Hunter was referring to multiple cards.

"…owned them at one point."

That was it! There was only one set of cards Yugi used to own that he was known for. But they were impossibly rare, so could the Rare Hunter really have them in his possession?

"Arg, stop messin' with me and just make your move!" Joey said impatiently.

"As you wish!" The old man laid his entire hand onto his Duel Disk, revealing a combination of cards thought to be almost impossible to gather.

"No way. It couldn't be!"

"That's impossible!" shouted Jacob, alerting the others of his and Scott's presence.

Seeker paid no mind to them as each of his five cards materialized onto the playing field: a left arm, a right arm, a left leg, a right leg, and finally, a head – all combining into the majestic bronze body of Exodia the Forbidden One.

"Stare into the face of annihilation, Mr. Wheeler!"

"No! It can't be!" Joey stumbled backward, falling over.

"Joey!" Tristan yelled.

"Exodia…OBLITERATE!" commanded Seeker.

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"Master, the girl is in position."

"Excellent. Seeker should be finished with his task by now. Find little Yugi. Make sure he's the one who duels for the girl."

"It will be done."

Susan, bound and gagged, was suspended twenty feet above a circular tank filled with murky water. Two triangular fins cut through the water's surface, circling below the girl.

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"Ah, yes! Finally, we have the rare Red-Eyes Black Dragon!" Seeker announced joyously, shuffling the card into his deck. He turned.

Joey was on the ground, Tristan at his side helping him up.

The group of Rare Hunters moved away. Seeker glared at Jacob and Scott as he passed by. A cell phone rang, disrupting his gaze.

"It's the boss," said one of the Hunters. He put the phone to his ear, listening intently. There were a few seconds of silence, and then he hung up. "The girl is in our possession and the plan is ready."

Jacob wondered aloud, "The girl?" Susan takes this route home. Did she run into these guys? Is that why Joey was dueling them? If that's true, then they must have her! "Hey, are you talking about my little sister Susan?"

"***** off, kid."

"That little girl was your sister?" Tristan asked, him and Joey making their ways over to the younger boys.

"You saw her?" Jacob was grasping for anything that would help him find his sister now.

"Yeah. These circus freaks were messing with her when we showed up. She ran off, but now it looks like they got her anyway."

Seeker chuckled, breaking up their conversation. "That's right, and if you ever want to see her alive again, tell your friend Yugi to meet us at the old bait shop by the docks in half an hour!"