Chapter Two: Not Another School Day

At Domino High School, class 2B was currently involved in a math lesson. Yugi, however, couldn't bring himself to pay attention. He was staring off into space, deep in thought, head in his hand.

Yugi? he heard the Pharaoh's voice say. Is everything all right?

Huh? Yugi jerked his head up. Oh, um, yes…well, no…for some reason, I can't get my mind off of that dream last night.

It felt a bit too real to be just a dream, didn't it?

Yes. I mean, we've experienced magic before, so it could have been real…but it seems a bit too strange, compared to what we've witnessed. And no one else seems to have had it at all.

Yugilooked around at his friends. Joey had his head in his hand and was desperately trying to keep his eyes open, Tristan had already succumbed to sleep and was quietly snoring away, and Téa was studiously writing notes in her notebook. None of them seemed even remotely preoccupied with something.

Maybe it was just a dream after all, Yugi thought.

Perhaps…still, maybe you should tell them about what you experienced. It may be of importance.

"Yugi Muto!" the teacher cried.

Yugi immediately sat up straight at his desk. After school.

Once lunchtime rolled around, Yugi and his friends crowded around his desk. "Man, I am soooooo tired…" Joey moaned. "How in de world is one actually supposed to survive school?"

"Didn't you get any sleep last night?" Téa asked.

"Of course I did! But for some reason, whenever I sleep, I always seem to wake up as dough I've been moving for hours!" Joey asked.

"Gee, I wonder how that's possible…" Tristan muttered.

"What did you say?" Joey yelled.

"Joey, everyone knows that you act out your dreams! I still remember how I slept over at your house one night and woke up to hear you saying, 'C'mon, ya stupid monkey, stop eatin' so fast that there's no banana puddin' left for me'".

"DAT WAS S'POSED TO BE A SECRET, YA JERK!" Joey yelled, pouncing on Tristan and starting to pull at his arms.

A couple of other kids in the room turned to stare at them. "Don't worry, this is typical for them," Téa assured them.

"Anyway," Joey said once he and Tristan finally separated from one another, "wouldn't it be nice if we could all just go home right now? No need to stay and endure dis torture for another couple of hours. Just go home, take the uniforms off, and enjoy a nice, long weekend wit no homework, no droning teachers, and notin' but pure, mindless entertainment."

"Why would you need mindless entertainment, Wheeler? You're already as mindless as they come," a cold voice said.

Joey wheeled around and glared at the brown-haired, blue-eyed teen behind him. "Shut up, Kaiba! No one asked you!"

Kaiba merely smiled nastily and replied, "No need to foam at the mouth for my mere statement of the truth, mutt." Then he turned and walked out of the classroom while Yugi and Tristan restrained Joey from running after him.

"Calm down, Joey," Yugi said. "Just continue thinking about what you talked about before-school being over and everyone being able to go home."

All of a sudden, Yugi felt a strange feeling inside of himself. Warmth similar to the one which he felt in the dream swelled up inside of his arm, all the way up to the tips of his fingers.

Yugi looked down at his arm and stared in shock as he saw tiny blue sparks fly out of his fingertips and spiral towards the ceiling. They swarmed around the fire sprinklers for one second, then struck at them with a small fizzle.

The next thing everyone knew, water was pouring down onto their heads and soaking into their uniforms. The kids started screaming and dashing out of the classroom, covering their heads with whatever they could find.

"LET'S GET OUTTA HERE!" Joey screamed, running out with his backpack hanging over his head.

Téa and Tristan immediately complied, but Yugi simply stood in place, staring at his hand. What-what in the world was that?

"I'm soaked to the bone, my school stuff is ruined, and now I have to go and buy new stuff wit all of de yen dat I've got-but WHO CARES? SCHOOL'S OVER!" Joey cried, pounding one fist into the air.

"How in the world did that happen? I heard some of the teachers talking outside, and they said the sprinklers just started for no reason." Téa asked, ringing some of the water out of her hair. "No fire in the chemistry lab, no smoke from the cafeteria-nothing!"

"It was probably just some dumb kid who decided it'd be fun to get everybody soaking wet and out of the school," Tristan replied. "Held a lighter up to one of the sprinklers when no one was looking or something."

"Um, guys? I think I know what caused it." Yugi murmured.

The other three turned and looked at him. "You saw de guy who did it?" Joey asked.

"Yes-no-I'm not entirely sure…"

"Yugi, what did you see?" Téa asked.

Yugi took a deep breath. "I did it."

They stared at him. "Um, Yug, no offense but dat's a little bit under your level…" Joey said.

"I didn't do it on purpose! I…I did it with…" He paused, then finally finished: "…my magic."

Joey's jaw dropped. Tristan just stared. Téa barely managed to say, "You-your what?"

"I had this dream last night, you see," Yugi said. "I dreamt that we met up with these three beings inside of a completely dark place who told me that we were needed since we had experienced magic before to take on the role of defending this world since-"

"De magical balance had shifded?" Joey finished.

Yugi stared at him. "How did you know that?"

Joey blushed. "Erm…well, I didn't wanna say anyting since you guys would ave thought I was nuts, but I had a dream like dat, too, and in it tree things came and told us de exact same ting."

Yugi noticed that Téa and Tristan were staring at the two of them in shock. "Guys?"

Téa murmured, "I'm beginning to remember…last night, I had a dream just like that as well."

Tristan barely brought himself to nod in agreement.

"Guys…I don't think that dream was a dream at all." Yugi said.

"Okay, I'll agree dat all of us havin' de same dream at once is a bit weird, but c'mon-magic powers? Dat's just too weird."

"I know what I dreamt, Joey," Yugi said. "and I think we should test it a bit after we go home and change. We need to find somewhere that's very secluded, though."

"How about near the docks? They have a bunch of abandoned warehouses near there. I'm sure that we could find one to test our powers in," Téa suggested.

"We don't have any powers!" Joey cried.

"Have you even tried to use them?" Téa asked, folding her arms.

"Of course he hasn't! They don't exist!"Tristan cried.

"You'll never know until you try," Yugi said.

Both Tristan and Joey considered that for a few seconds. "Awright…I'll come, but I'm tellin' you, it's not gonna be worth our time," Joey said.

"I doubt it will be either," Tristan agreed.

"We'll see…"

"My queen, a new Dimension has opened up, and it appears to be an easy target for conquest."

"A new one, eh? And which one would that be?"

"It's called Dimension 5000, known for mostly its card game called Duel Monsters. Magic hasn't been prominent in that dimension for over 5000 years."

"Excellent. Let's move in on the easy prey."