I didn't get much sleep last night. I could lie to myself and just say I was worried, but I knew that wasn't true. That duelist referred to me as a cursed object and it kept bothering me. I hated not knowing about who I was. What was worse, it was more then not likely that my past is whats going to kill my future.
The next morning, Jack and Crow didn't return. I assumed they found Yusei and where at a hospital with him. An attempt to stay positive. My legs felt better this morning. Well, more like I could walk with slight pain.
After throwing on a cloak, I went down towards the garage. Some force was calling to me, beckoning me towards my duel runner. Wow, the thing looked brand new. My hand hovered over the duel runner and pressed a button, all with out my control. A red duel disk popped out of the console, with a deck already loaded in. This must have been my deck.
I scanned through the cards, the all looked like Fabled monsters. They didn't look all to strong. I put the deck back on the duel disk and strapped it onto my back. I wonder why I came down here, sometimes life is just weird.
I walked down the streets of new Domino. My body walked towards something, an unknown force. An hour or so later I ended up at an arena. Out of a random stroke of luck, they where holding preliminaries for a big upcoming Duel tournament.
What the heck, why not? I decided to enter the preliminaries. It did seem like a good idea the time, though I knew it wasn't. When I saw all of the other competitors I was glad to be wearing a cloak that hid my features. Besides a bunch of weird looking people, Yusei, Crow, Jack, and Aryan where all there.
Aryan, hmm, maybe I would be able to get some answers. I walked over to him, but quickly the first round started. The preliminaries where simple, find an opponent, duel, and win to take their puzzle piece. When the puzzle was completed you would get an map, leading you to the next round. Its said this was taking from the days of the great Yugi Moto.
I got challenged first, by some green haired boy. He was a tough opponent, but at the very point of losing my deck prevailed. I had eight more duels after that, nothing note worthy. I don't know, but it seemed that I never drew a dead card, everything had meaning.
Carefully following the map on the card lead me to a abandoned warehouse. The sponsor was waiting, it seemed I was the first to arrive. The sponsor seemed bored by this, or maybe it was just the old silver hair and the worn green eyes saying that.
"Congratulations, you are the first to arrive. I will be over viewing the rest of the duels. What shall I call you by, umbella," the sponsor said.
My mind clicked, translating the word. I believed it meant little shadow, but since when did I know another language. I smiled, "umbella, little shadow works."
The sponsor smiled, a gracious elegant smile. "Oh dear, I forgot to introduce my self. My name is Lilith."
The name irked me, my I nodded and waited. The next round wouldn't start till nightfall.