Yu-Gi-Oh!

Duels of the Actillian

Episode Two

Domino High

Previous from Last Episode

"No contact lens please, I prefer my glasses," Joseph had replied. "I prefer glasses, and I'll stay with glasses."

Kyle shrugged a bit; it was Joseph's decision after all. "Your choices, you probably don't like anything touching your eyes, right?"

"I tried contact lens before, for the purpose to play rugby," Joseph had replied, and he walks onward, carrying the bags.

"That explains the muscles," Kyle said quietly, he then follows.

As they neared the entrance of the mall, Kyle looked like he realized something. "Oh, almost forgot," Kyle said as they go out of the mall.

"What?" asked Joseph, didn't sound interested.

"As another way of blending in this city, you're a transfer student to Domino High," said Kyle, Joseph had suddenly stopped. Kyle noticed and stopped beside him, "Joseph?"

He looks at Kyle, and yelled suddenly, "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"

Episode Two

Domino High

In Kyle's Limo, both Joseph and Kyle sat within it as the driver drove along the road. Joseph was sitting across from Kyle, with his backpack beside him, with all the bags of the stuff he got beside him as well. He got the stuff thanks to Kyle.

Before they got back into the limo, Kyle had explained what the purpose of going to Domino School…

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" he shouted at Kyle.

"Don't shout," Kyle said, covering his ears with his hands. When the shouting stopped, Kyle lowered his hands. "Like I said, you're a transfer student, same as me." Now sees Joseph glaring at him, and Kyle raised his hands in front of him, palm outwards. "Just let me explain first please."

"Explain," Joseph growled, still annoyed.

"Well I'm a transfer student from America, which is my disguise for being in this city," Kyle stated, he then crossed his arms. "I know the fact that you would probably head to where your rift is located, right?" Joseph nodded, and Kyle continued, "Well, think of it like this, by being a transfer student, one of the students in Domino High will be having one of us stay at their place till the point we need to leave."

"And the school or the students would alert the police, and they would be searching for one of us," Joseph replied moment after, still glaring at Kyle, fists clenching. "And by bloody fact that Domino High contains those people who are the heroes of this world and they might figure out what we are."

"True, that's possible, but think of it like a game," Kyle said, than holds out his hands in front of him for protecting himself, because Joseph looked ready to punch him. "Poor choice of words I know, but think about it. If you can fool them, that would mean you're getting very good in hiding what you are, which could be helpful for later on. And if you don't have a tent in your backpack, you at least get a place to sleep in instead of the cold outside. And the fact it's a school, meaning you get to learn more things while waiting for the rift. And by half of the month, you could head straight to the rift, instead of waiting at the rift and wait boring weeks. And by going to the school, you could make friends, and never to be alone."

Joseph ended up thinking about it, and when he calmed down, Kyle sighed in relief. "You do got a point," Joseph said, and Kyle grins, but it was wiped away when Joseph hold his right hand up, index finger point out and towards him. "But next time, ask me first instead of making that kind of decision. And if you do that again, I'll…"

"Oh don't worry, that's a one-time only," Kyle said with a grin, more like a relief that he manage to calm Joseph down. Kyle had remembered what worlds Joseph said he gone too, and both of them were combat, well a lot in the PSU (Phantasy Star Universe) world, in which Joseph probably got weapons inside his backpack and the skills to use them. "And think of this, depending who you go with for a while, we'll hardly be seeing each other unless at school. That way, when one of us needs help, we can help each other, right?"

Joseph looked at him, seeing his logic. "Fine," Joseph said, he then picks up the bags.

"Great, let's get going, the limo is waiting," Kyle chuckles, than he and Joseph headed to the limo, and once they got to it, Kyle let Joseph to go in first. And when Kyle got in, he then said, "Also, there's going to be a third transfer student, who we're going to pick up at the airport. So as long as you keep my secret, I keep yours, alright."

"Don't you start thinking I'm dumb, I know what we are needs to be kept secret," Joseph said as he sat in his seat beside his stuff.

"I wasn't thinking that," Kyle hastily replied, than the limo started to go.

And now, the limo is just stopping in front of the airport. The driver got out and went to open the door for Kyle.

He turned to Joseph, and he asked, "You coming?"

"I'll just stay here and wait," Joseph replied.

"Alright," Kyle said, than he got out and look to the driver. "Driver, please keep the limo here, I won't be gone long."

"Very well sir," replied the driver, than Kyle headed into the airport.

The driver closed the limo door, and stood beside it, waiting for Kyle to return with his guest. While Joseph sat and waited in the limo, but eventually a thought of opportunity came to mind.

He reaches for his backpack, opens it, and pulls out his notebook and pencil. He flips through it several pages till the point he reaches a blank. He then writes down a few sentences in it, and after memorizing it, he then puts the notebook and pencil into his backpack, and kept the backpack open and facing him.

"My backpack is now bigger on the inside than the outside, for every item that goes into it would shrink down to one inch tall. And when opened, if I reach into it with my hand, I won't shrink unless I put my head in, if I put my head in, I'll shrink inside. And when I say the name of the item as I put my hand in, the said item will head straight to my hand," he said, and right before his eyes, the notebook, pencil, and few items in his backpack shrank in size, and he felt a massive energy drain.

He gasps, but takes a few breathers. He knows that more details in his sentence would greatly energy drain him, but this was important, and besides, he'll have a good nap right after. Using whatever amount of energy he has left, he does a quick change of clothing.

He took off his jacket, shirt, boots, and jeans, pulled out his chained wallet from the jeans. He then puts his jeans, shirt, and jacket into his backpack, than reaches for the bags, and pulled out five things; black jeans, black belt, black t-shirt, black fingerless gloves, and his lovely trench coat. He then puts each of them on, than his boots, and his wallet into pants.

Once fully dressed and his new trench coat on him, he puts the rest of his items into his backpack, and zip it shut. Feeling exhausted, he crossed his arms, closed his eyes and sagged his head, and went right to sleep.

About twenty minutes later, Kyle walks out the entrance of the airport with another person. A guy who is about five feet and eight inches tall skinny guy, tan skin, light blond hair, gold earrings on each ear, gold bands around his neck, sleeveless hoody shirt, two bicep gold bands and two gold wrist bands, and black jeans, purple belt, and black shoes, and carrying a light gray sack over his shoulder.

"How come I didn't see you on the plane, Kyle?" asked the boy.

"I came here yesterday, Marik," Kyle said, they had already introduced to each other and Kyle had already told the boy that he's a transfer student as well. "I came here yesterday with another transfer, who is waiting in my limo."

"You have a limo?" Marik asked, sounded a bit surprised. "You must be rich as Kaiba."

Kyle chuckles, "Maybe, but I'm from America." He turns slightly to look at the boy, "And do you know Kaiba by any chance?"

"Well, not personally," Marik replied as he walked beside Kyle. "I did enter his battle city tournament a year ago, and got into the finals, but lost against the Duel Champion."

"Oh, you were in that, you're quite lucky," Kyle chuckles a bit.

"Yeah, lucky…" said Marik, he frown a bit, there were a few memories of that tournament that he doesn't like.

Once they stopped at the limo, the driver opened the door for them. Kyle got in first, followed by Marik. When Marik saw Joseph, he was a bit surprised of the clothing he wore, more specifically the coat.

"Is he the other transferred student?" he asked Kyle, just as the driver closed the door.

Kyle had noticed Joseph was asleep, which he frowned. He opened the mini-fridge and pulled out a can drink. "Yeah, hold on I'll wake him," Kyle replied, he then goes over to him, and tries to nudge him. "Hey Joseph, wake up man."

With another nudge, Joseph's eyes suddenly went wide, and he looked very annoyed like he didn't get enough sleep. Kyle grins sheepishly considering he gets the full brunt of Joe's glare. He holds the drink in front of Joseph, "Here, have a diet coke."

Joseph was still annoyed, but took the coke. Kyle goes back and sat down beside Marik, and Joseph had just saw Marik. Since he was rudely awake, he slowly opens the can drink while looking at Marik. "So you're the third student, huh?" he asked, just as the can snapped open.

"Yes I am; I'm Marik Ishtar, what's your name?" Marik asked.

"I'm Joseph," he replied, and took a sip of his drink, and when he gulps. His eyes widen right after in surprise after he drank a bit. To anyone, the drink seem to give him a wake-up call, while to Joseph, his body seemed to have pulsed out once, like he was fully energized. He turned his surprise gaze towards Kyle.

Kyle was grinning, "Works a whole lot better when its cold, doesn't it."

"You can say that again," Joseph replied; he then takes another gulp of his drink.

Kyle opens the mini-fridge and brings out two drinks, one for him, and he handed the other to Marik. Marik opens his drink and takes a sip, he sighs, "Ah, taste much better than the beverage on the plane."

"Yep," Kyle replied as he opened his and drank a bit. The limo started to go, heading to the next destination while the three guys in the back converse.

"So where are you two from? I'm from Egypt," Marik said, looking at either Kyle or Joseph.

"Like I had said before, I'm from America," Kyle said.

"Canada," Joseph replied, took another gulp of his drink.

"So you're both from North America," Marik said after he sipped his drink. He was a bit confused, the drink felt like any good soda, so why did Joseph appear to get a sudden wakeup from it? And for that matter, Joseph looks more like a serious bodyguard or something, so why is he a transfer student to Domino? Many thoughts swirled in his head about both Joseph and Kyle, even though both of them are from, they both seem so odd from normal people. Sure they look normal, but not 'normal' normal.

"So tell me, why you decided to transfer yourself to Domino City High School, Marik?" asked Kyle, looking to him while Joseph remain silent but listens.

"I used to been home schooled when I was young," Marik quietly replied at first, but then raised his volume of his voice a bit. "And well, I didn't go to school back home, but was given a chance to be transferred over here. I know of a few people in this city. And plus, my sister had moved here to work in this city's museum. And my brother is still in Egypt, but he'll likely be coming here soon."

"Cool, cool," Kyle said after he took another gulp of his drink. "What are your siblings' names?"

"They're Ishizu and Odion," Marik replied after, he finished his can drink. He turns to Joseph, and said, "You and Odion probably like each other, considering you're both silent."

Joseph lightly chuckled but didn't reply, while Kyle asks, "And you said your sister works in a museum?"

"Yes she does, but you two best are careful around her, she doesn't like jokes," Marik replied.

"All serious and no fun makes one a dull lady," Kyle said, than he, Joseph, and Marik chuckle a bit.

"Yeah," Marik chuckles a bit. Then a sudden thought comes to mind, "Say, are you both duellists?"

"Definitely," Kyle said with a grin right after he finished his drink.

Joseph had already finished his a while ago, "Left mine at home."

Both Marik and Kyle looked a bit surprised, and Marik instantly asked, "Wait, you left your cards at home? And yet you're a duellist? Many great duellists live in Domino, so how come you didn't bring yours?"

"It's because back home, I am the best duellist and I had no one to duel for years," Joseph said, turning to look out the window. "No duelling means no practices to get stronger. And by that, I collect cards, but I never got to duel again. So I had never thought of bringing my cards with me when I came here."

"Oh, that's too bad," Marik said, feel a little bad for asking. "But what were your best cards, how skilled were you in the game?"

"Quite good actually," Joseph said as a grin slowly came as he turns to look at Marik. "In several of the duels, I had brought out three Five-Headed Dragons."

Kyle whistled in surprise while Marik's eyes widen and back of his hair stand on end. 'Three Five-Headed Dragons?! Facing three of those is bad as facing one of the Egyptian God Cards!' Marik thought. He knows how strong a Five-Headed Dragon is, considering it has 5000 for both Attack and Defense. In a way, Marik might as well be glad that Joseph hadn't come into Battle City Tournament long ago.

Then a sudden thought crossed his mind, Five-Headed Dragon is very rare and difficult to get. And this Joseph claims he could use three of them in a duel, he then thought, 'How in Ra's name did he get three Five-Headed Dragons?!' Then he recalled Joseph said he collect cards that might explain it.

"In a way," Joseph continued right after a pause just so both Kyle and Marik could think what he said. "I'm similar to Seto Kaiba. He uses three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, while I use three Five-Headed Dragons. In a sense, Seto is the Hikari, while I'm the Yami." (Hikari means Light, Yami means Dark)

Marik thought of that, it almost sounds right, but then he a new thought comes to mind. He asks, "If you're his Yami, do you have like personal vendetta against others?"

Joseph chuckles a little, "It's almost like it, but I am not like Seto. Besides, I never met him, only seen him on TV. I don't have any goals like Seto has; I prefer to duel for the fun of it."

Marik smiled a bit and so did Kyle, "You might as well be the Hikari version instead of him, you aren't so serious all the time, and you don't laugh unless you're dominating your opponent like Seto."

"I never laugh in duels unless things get exciting like my opponent brings out a powerful opponent," Joseph said. "I used to duel against my brothers, at times like a triangle battle or double battles. Of course I used to lose most of the time, but I don't really care about winning or losing, what I care about is the way the duel is played. It's not really fun unless both sides are enjoying the game."

Marik chuckles a bit, he knows a few people who would like this guy, but too bad he didn't brought his cards with him.

"If what you said was true, than to bad Maximillion Pegasus didn't make a fusion card of three Five-Headed Dragons," Kyle said with a laugh. "Just imagine that, if there was a fusion for three of those Five-Headed Dragons. It would be called, 'Fifteen-Headed Ultimate Dragon' or just 'Ultimate Hydra Dragon.'" This caused Joseph to laugh a bit with Kyle.

Marik laughed as well, "If that card was made, it would still be difficult to bring out; much more than difficult to bring out the Egyptian God Cards."

"That's true, but beating the Egyptian God Cards is easy," Kyle said, still laughing. Marik instantly stopped and looked at Kyle in surprise, than to serious as he sees that both of them were still laughing.

Joseph spoke after, "Brute strength against those three are useless, considering Obelisk's ability. No, the way to defeat those three is to turn them against themselves, use their own power against them."

'Okay, how in Ra did these two figure out how to do that when Yugi used that strategy against the pharaoh, heck Seto never could figure out till Yugi accomplished it?!' Marik thought to himself as he stared at both of them in shock.

"So true pal," Kyle said, slowly stop laughing. "To bad neither of us got the chance to test it out yet."

Joseph had stopped as well, and nodded, "Yeah. And too bad I didn't bring my cards; I might've become the next Champion if I faced Yugi and his Egyptian God Cards."

'Alright, these two are clearly smart in duelling,' Marik thought, than he grin as he thought of another thing to say. "Say, did you both know I once hold the strongest of the three Egyptian God Cards, the Winged Dragon of Ra?"

Both Joseph and Kyle looked at him in aw, not knowing the fact that they already knew it.

"Awesome man, the Winged Dragon of Ra is my favourite of the trio," Joseph said, he smiled. "Even though it is powerful, the artistic of the form is beautiful."

"Yeah, but I prefer Obelisk, now that God could defeat the other two," Kyle said. "Obelisk the Tormentor is the best of those cards."

"No, the Winged Dragon of Ra is the best," Joseph said, than he and Kyle started to argue over the two Egyptian God Cards, claiming either one of them is the best card of the trio.

'Heh, these two are actually quite fun,' Marik said, as he watches these two. They almost looked like when that Wheeler and Taylor argue a bit, almost like best friends in a way. 'And Joseph sounds like he's a dragon lover,' than eyes widen, than closed and he face palmed. 'Oh great; first it's Seto, than Joey Wheeler, now a third. A new Dragon Lover has come to Domino City.'

At Domino High School, the students are in their classrooms, with their teachers teaching them. The students have to wear school regulation clothing. For boys, they wear blue school clothes, and the girls wear pink school clothes.

In one classroom, there are a total of twenty desks with seventeen students. And right now is break time, in which most of the students are talking with each other. One male student was sitting in his desk, reading a book, he's about six feet and three inches tall, and has dark brown hair.

To his left are a group of five other students sitting around one desk, four boys and one girl. The girl has dark brown hair, and she stood about five feet and five inches tall. She stood beside a boy who is about five feet and ten inches tall, and has long white hair. On the other side of the desk is a five feet and ten inches tall boy with one spike point forward hair. And on either side of the desk sat the last two boys; in front of the desk was a boy with yellow hair and stood the same height as their tallest member in the group, five feet and ten inches tall, who turned around to talk with the one who was sitting in the right position of the desk. And then lastly, the boy who is sitting in the right position of the desk, he's about four feet tall, and has yellow and red spike hair.

Both of these two are playing a card game on the desk between them, duel monsters game. And the one who's winning is the small boy; with his side have two faces down cards, a Dark Magician in attack position. And his opponent only has one face down defense position card, in which he had placed down in his last turned.

These two are known as Yugi Muto, and Joey Wheeler. And the friends around them who are watching the game were Tea Gardner, Tristan Taylor, Ryou Bakura, and the boy reading is known as Seto Kaiba.

While the two duel, three friends who were watching it converse with each other.

"Are any of you guys excited for the new transfer students coming in today?" asked Ryou.

Tea nodded, "Yeah, the teacher said there were three coming here. Wonder what they're like."

"We'll know soon, she did said that they'll be arriving by the time next class," Ryou replied.

Yugi issued the attack after he revealed a magic card, Thousand Knives, which destroyed Joey's face down monster, and his Dark Magician attacked Joey directly, thus ending the game.

"Today's just not my lucky day," Joey groaned; that was his third duel in a row. Each of them were taking back their cards and stacking them into their decks. Then he looks to the others, had heard their conversation. "Hope they're at least good duellists, we do need new good ones."

"Heh, getting tired of losing Joey?" asked Tristan with a chuckle. "Maybe you need to go back to learning the basics."

Joey glared at him, "Hey watch it'; I'm just not drawing out the right cards. And besides, you don't duel well." He and Tristan glare at each other looked ready to rumble.

"Guys, cool it!" Tea demanded, glaring at the two.

Both Ryou and Yugi chuckled a bit till Ryou turned to Yugi, "Maybe one of the new students will give you a good challenge, Yugi. You pretty much know everyone's strategies by now."

"Yeah, but I do hope they aren't going to duel me just for the title of champion. It gets very tiring," Yugi said, relaxes a bit.

Ryou nodded, than a thought come to mind. "Say, are you and your grandpa really sure with the idea of housing one of the transfer students coming here? Your place is small after all."

"True, but it's fine with me and grandpa," Yugi said with a smile. "My grandpa has one extra bedroom that he often used for storage; at least it can finally be used. Most of the storage is now in the basement. What about you, Ryou?"

"Oh my place has enough room, and it does get boring after a while," Ryou replied.

Joey turned to them, "Speaking of the transfer students, it was surprising to hear there are three coming instead of two. Even more that money bags over there offered the chance." Money bags happen to be a name that Joey calls Seto.

"He has his reasons," Yugi said. Then in an instant, the teacher came in, signalling that the classes will soon start. Both Yugi and Joey grabbed their decks and put them into their deck boxes and put them into their pockets while every student return to their desks, leaving three empty desks, one beside Ryou, one beside Seto, and one beside Yugi.

Once the teacher, a woman wearing pink regulation teaching clothes, got their attention, she started to talk, "Now class, I'm sure all of you are excited to meet the three transfer students who are coming in soon. And the principal had made a decision of which one of them will be staying with you for the month. So whoever is the one sitting beside you three is the one staying with you for the month."

"That explains the empty desks," Joey quietly whispered to his friends.

Eventually there was the sound of a knock at the door; the teacher goes to answer, poking her head out. Then the students heard her say, "Ah, you're here, please come right in so you'll introduce yourselves." She opens the door wide for the three people to come in.

The first to come in was instantly recognized by the gang and Seto Kaiba, and Joey Wheeler had blurted it out to his friends. "It's Marik!"

Marik was indeed the one who came in first, and followed two new guys. The first is six feet tall slender and yet a bit muscular boy wearing a white sleeveless coat with a black tank top shirt underneath with what looks like a reptilian scale pattern. He wore a silver belt, and black leather jeans and dark brown shoes. On his arms are black wristbands and a strange looking infinity tattoo on his left shoulder. As for the face, he is cleaned shaved, he has blue eyes, a yellow tattoo of what looks like a scar over the left eye, and he has long spike red hair.

And the second guy is big, six feet and four inches tall muscular boy wearing a red trench coat with a spiralling dragon. He wore a black shirt underneath, black fingerless gloves, black jeans, black belt, and black boots. He has black flaming hair, with dark brown goatee, brown eyes and is wearing eyeglasses.

Out of the two new guys, the big guy looks intimidating while the spike red haired one looks like a trusting person, considering he was smiling. The big guy looks like he doesn't even want to be here, and contains a similar frown to Seto Kaiba.

"Bet I know who the big guy going to spend his time with," Joey whispered to Yugi. Yugi chuckled a bit.

But as Yugi looks at the three as they go and stood in the front of the class. There was something odd about the two guys standing beside Marik. Sure he knows Marik after some events, but he can be trusted. But these two, the big guy kinda reminds him of Seto Kaiba the way he is, but it could be that he's shy and is trying to look intimidating. And the red spike hair one appears to be smiling a lot, the kind of smile that reminds him a lot like Maximillion Pegasus.

His eyes widen when he thought of that, and now he has a bad feeling about the smiling one.

The teacher indicated to the new transfer students, "Please introduce yourselves, state where you're from, and what's your hobby."

The first one to go was Marik, "Hello, my name is Marik Ishtar, I'm from Egypt, and I'm a duellist."

Then the red spike haired one step forth, he was still smiling, "My name is Kyle Pegasus." Hearing the word 'Pegasus' caught every student's attention. "That's right everybody, I'm dear Maxi's little brother, the Creator of Duel Monsters. Hence I'm from America, but my dear brother gave me his island castle as a birthday present, in which I'll likely be using as a summer vacation. And as for hobbies, why duelling of course, I was the first among many to get the first pack of cards when he made them."

Every student except Kaiba who was still reading his book was very surprised of this. Seto had heard what he said, and frown, he put his bookmark in and closed and sits it down. He then looks to Kyle, and frowns a bit, he was about to interrupt the introduction till his eyes widen upon the third transferred student. His eyes were widening in shock.

Then the third stood forth, and gave a small kind smile, "Hello, my name is-"

"Joseph!" yelled Kaiba as he stood up, instantly catching everyone's attention.

Joey Wheeler though, had thought Kaiba was shouting at him, "I did nothing money bags."

"Not you, him!" Seto said, keeping his sight upon the big guy.

The big guy presumed to be Joseph, was looking at Seto in surprise, while Kyle looked very confused. He's not the only one, every student, Marik and teacher were confused of what's going on.

"How in the heck did you know my name?" he asked, feeling very confused and very surprised.

Seto headed towards him, and stood in front of him. "Joseph Hikari," he said, and when he saw Joseph's eyes widen and head move back in surprise, he smiled and said lastly, "Hello brother."

Whoa! What is Seto Kaiba talking about? How can Joseph be his brother? Stay tuned for the next… YuGiOh! Duels of the Actillian!