Yu-Gi-Oh!

Duels of the Actillian

Episode Twelve

New Friends

Previous from Last Episode

Joseph was sitting at a table in the food court within the central part of the mall. He was resting the right side of his head on the table, looked tired a bit. He smiled with a relief while a bag of a bought cellphone is beside his head.

"Finally, got what I wanted…" he said with a sigh of relief. After Rex, he had liked four more duels, mostly duellists who were covered in black trench coats.

Um, excuse me sir?" asked someone who stood near him. Joseph slowly rises up and turns to see who it is. He sees a six feet tall man covered in a long black hooded trench coat and is zipped up from his waist to his neck, and he wore black gloves and boots, and the hood is up which made his face covered in shadows. He could tell the being was smiling, "Hi, I'm Aurion Black; is it alright if I…"

Joseph suddenly face-slammed on the table, and he groaned in annoyance.

"Um, are you alright?" asked Aurion, sounded confused.

Episode Twelve

New Friends

"Are you feeling alright?" asked Aurion, still sounded confused while Joseph had nearly knocked himself out cold.

He groans a bit, feeling a headache coming, so he sighed as he asked, "Are you going to challenge me as well?"

"Uh no, I was just going to ask if I could sit here, there are no free tables around," Aurion replied.

Joseph slowly raised his head, a bruise showing on his forehead. He slowly turned to look at Aurion, and had just noticed that he was carrying a bag that contains a sub sandwich, and a bottle of pop. And the fact that he wasn't equipped with a duelling disk.

"Oh, well uh, sure, go ahead," Joseph said, taking hold of the bag that contains his cellphone and moves it close to his side.

"Thank you," Aurion said, and he then sat down. He then sets his food and drinks onto the table and unwrap his sandwich. Then just as he was about to take a bite…

"Just curious, but are you in some kind of a duelling club?" asked Joseph, looking at him.

Aurion had stopped, his sub just inches, "Kinda, why do you ask?"

"I been duelled by six people in same clothing as yours," Joseph replied.

Aurion had taken a bite out of his sub, chewed and swallowed, "Six huh, how many wins and losses?"

"I beat them all," Joseph replied.

Aurion seemed a bit surprised, "Really, six in a row huh, that's nothing compared to most duellists in the group."

"Thought so, many duellists have over ten no doubt," Joseph said as he took hold of the bag that contains his cellphone. Takes it out and opens it and presses a few buttons. As he does, he asks, "So what's the name of your club?"

Aurion had finished half of his sub, he then said, "It's called Organization, really."

Joseph now looked at him, doesn't look impress or anything, but more of annoyed and little curious. He asks, "Know of Kingdom Hearts?"

Aurion just looks to him in confusion, "What's that?"

"Does your team consists of thirteen members?" asked Joseph instead of answering.

Aurion shook his head, "We're not supposed to talk about what happens within the Organization, but thirteen members? Dude, that's small, there are like, lots of us."

Joseph smiled a little and then finished checking his new cellphone before putting it into his pocket. "Sorry, the idea of your group reminded me of another. But what's the goal of your group?"

Aurion had then finished his sub and taking a bit of his drink, "To better ourselves in the ways of duelling. But in order to get into the group, you'll need to be challenged by one of the top four, the Titans."

"Titans huh?" asked Joseph, sounded more curious. "Must be high rank duellists, are they your leaders of the group?"

Aurion shook his head, "No, we don't really have a leader, we pretty much do vote on what's best."

"No leader huh, but the four Titans are considered the strongest of your group," Joseph stated, it wasn't a question. He looks at Aurion, and he asks, "Interesting, but why wear those black clothing? Is there something your group is trying to hide from other duellists?"

Aurion was silent for over five minutes, but eventually the silence ended when he said, "When you stand in the dark, it makes it clearer to see the light."

Joseph was surprised, and became more curious of the group Aurion is in, they sounded mysterious in a way. Not like other evil organizations Joseph had seen, and heck, Aurion is telling some info.

"Is that a slogan of your group?" asked Joseph.

"It's mine, the group doesn't really have a slogan," Aurion replied.

"Interesting, interesting," Joseph replied, now bringing out his cellphone. "No doubt later on, you're going to challenge me to do, correct?"

"It's possible," he replied, taking a gulp.

"Then how about we share cellphone numbers?"

Aurion probably looked surprised, if his hood wasn't still up. He then shook his head a bit while reaching into his pocket and pulls out a folded cellphone. "Sure," he said as he unfolded his cellphone.

They shared their cellphone numbers, and are to register their names with them. Joseph would've typed in Aurion's name till…

"How about we register each other by titles?" asked Aurion.

"Why?" Joseph asked, was confused by that.

"Well that way, whoever took either of our cellphones, they won't know who those people are," Aurion said.

Joseph thinks about it for a minute, till he replied, "Very well, what is your duellist title?"

"My title is Shadow's Light," Aurion stated, and Joseph typed down Aurion's title. "And what's yours?"

"I don't really have a title," Joseph was then thinking. He thinks up names that would describe him in some way, but mostly for his deck. So far, any duellist who duelled him and small number of audience knows that he's a Dragon Duellist, and the fact that people can just look it up on that Duellist site on the internet.

Then the thought of his notebook and one of his favourite hobbies is reading. He smiled after some thought, he then spoke, "Call me, the Dragon Chronicler."

Aurion seemed surprised, than must've smiled, "Very interesting title." He then puts it in.

"Thank you, glad I thought of it," Joseph chuckled, and once he put his cellphone away. He then checks his duelling disk that is still equip to his left arm, checked the registered and changed the name to Dragon Chronicler.

Once he finished, he sighed as he got up from his seat, "Well, time for me to go. See ya next time, ya?"

Aurion looks up at him, "You bet, it was nice talking to you."

"Bye," Joseph said, he then walks away, probably headed to one of the stores within the mall.

Aurion watches him go, and once out of sight, he remained where he was sitting. Hardly noticing but already knew a few of the organization duellists coming over.

He knew some of them were watching and want to know what he's up to. And now, five of them came to them, three of them sitting in the free seats while two of them remain standing. The two standing had their arms crossed.

Aurion could already tell they weren't happy.

"What is wrong with you rookie?" asked one of the few who are seated.

"You're supposed to duel him, make friends with him after he loses," said another.

"Explain yourself, rookie," said one of the two standing.

Aurion sighed, and then he said, "I did so he won't get away so easily." He then crossed his arms, "At times he probably won't be carrying his duelling disk, so having his cellphone number, we could have one of our smart tech guys to locate where ever he'll be."

Some of them must've smiled, but one of them remains serious. "Don't get too friendly with your opponents; if they're not in the group, they're enemies. Remember that," he said, and each of them got up and started to leave.

Aurion remains at his seat, than lowers his head a bit, "I know…"

'There's an odd bunch,' thought someone who was gazing at the group of cloaked duellists.

At a table further away sat a six feet and two inches tall slender body man. He wore Domino High school blue clothing; the blue coat is open to show the white button up shirt. His hair is black with gold highlights; the upper layer of his hair juts upwards while the lower layer arches down. His right arm is a bit bulky than his left, reason is apparent because of his right hand, it's mechanical. And as for his face, he's clean shaven, and his eyes are milky white, for he is blind.

But even though he is blind, he is no ordinary being. To anyone, he could be staring at nothing. But to him, he's not looking at people specifically, but their DNA. It is his strange ability, but somehow he can see it. And how he can tell the difference was by color, the earth has a blue code, and if he sees a green code, than that would be a spirit, and basically for all humans, he would see red code. And there are special ones, who have a purple code, and he knows what those are, he calls the ones who have the purple code, Choran.

A choran (c-hor-ran) is a creature with one power but lives where it's the opposite power. And even so, choran are incredibly rare, he should know; he's one too.

He watched the odd bunch, even though he can't tell what they look like, they were a curious bunch, all because of their code. Then he looks to the only one of that odd group who remains, probably just sitting.

"Hey DX," called a friend, the being who can see code is known as DX. DX turns to look to his friend, his friend who isn't in the same state as he is.

"Find anything interesting on your end, Jonathan?" asked DX.

The one who arrived is the same height as DX, a man wearing a trench coat and a cowboy hat, he has blond hair but at the back it is darker. His left eye is green while his right eye is covered by his hair. He has a brace on his right arm that he calls the chronicle, his reason, only DX knows.

"No not really, nothing new. How about you, DX? Spotted anything special?" Jonathan asked.

DX nodded, "Yeah, more than one actually."

Jonathan looked surprised and quickly sat down, he asked, "What did you see?"

DX turned and pointed to the one who is still sitting down with his left hand, Jonathan looks and sees the black trench coat guy with the hood up, sitting at a table. Then DX said, "He and five others had similar purple codes."

Jonathan instantly looked at DX in shock, "Wait, you mean six chorans were here and you didn't meet up with them."

"No, because they're not natural," DX replied. "They each appear to have a purple code, but hidden beneath it were red. It's like they were regular people before becoming chorans."

Jonathan suddenly grin, "Time to find out then."

"Jonathan, don't try," DX said. "And besides, that one sitting there hardly has any purple code." Then remembered one thing, "But there was someone else who has a mixture, a natural mixture."

Jonathan looked to DX; now seem more interested, he asked, "Was this one part of that group of strange codes?"

DX shook his head, "No, in fact he left before the group arrived. He has a choran mixture, light purple and dark purple."

Jonathan looked surprised, he said, "That can't be possible, you say it's natural, how?"

DX replied, "I mean what I said, Jonathan, that guy has a unique choran code."

Jonathan wondered, than he asked, "Did you hear this guy's name?"

DX shook his head as he said, "I would've gotten up and go talk to the guy myself, but seeing that strange group caught my attention. But I did hear his duellist title; he calls himself the Dragon Chronicler."

Jonathan snickered a bit, "He calls himself that?"

DX lightly chuckled, "If he knew, he might've not called himself that."

"Well, now I'm more than just interested to find out who this guy is," Jonathan said.

DX then pointed to the same guy before, "Well, you could ask him to find out who the Dragon Chronicler is. I had heard he calls himself, Shadow's Light."

Jonathan looked confused for a minute, "That name sounds familiar… oh right, he's a duellist, saw it on that internet site." He got up and he walks towards Shadow's Light, "Be right back."

DX shook his head, than he turns to look in the direction where that strange being went.

Aurion sighed, has enough of his break. He was about to get up till he notice someone looking at him, just standing three feet away. Confused, he asked, "May I help you?"

"Aye lad," said Jonathan, now speaking a pirate accent. "I got a question for you land lubber."

Aurion became more confused of the guy, "If you're trying to be a pirate, you're doing it wrong, dress up as a pirate, not a cowboy."

"Watch your tongue lad," Jonathan replied. "I need an answer for me question, do ye know who Dragon Chronicler is and where he be?"

Aurion merely shook his head, but honestly replied, "I don't know where he went too, but he's Joseph Hikari."

Jonathan looked surprised, "You mean the one who beat that Kaiba guy?"

"Yeah," Aurion replied. Then there were beeping noises, coming from Jonathan's chronicle, Aurion looks at it, confused.

Jonathan then looks to his chronicle but after he looks at it, he looks at Aurion in surprise.

"Um, something wrong?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing really," Jonathan replied as he starts to take a few steps back as well as losing his pirate accent. "Nothing wrong, nothing involving betrayal." He instantly covered his mouth in shock for what he said.

Aurion became annoyed, "If you're planning to… hey!"

Jonathan turned and ran, he ran with his hand covering his mouth. He was running to where the restrooms are.

"Hm, he must have eaten something that didn't agree with him," Aurion thought out loud, he got up, than he walks away, heading to somewhere else. He had enough sitting around.

DX has been watching Jonathan's code run by him, and knew the reason why he does that. DX sighed as he thinks to himself, 'I hope that future isn't important.'

He then gotten up, and carefully follows where Jonathan's code went. He bumps into some normal people, and when they tried to tell him, seeing his eyes, they instantly shut up. DX apologizes as he goes, till he came to where Jonathan went into.

He walks into the male restroom, and sees only one code. He asks, "Something wrong Jonathan?"

Jonathan was washing his face with water in the sink, than he used a paper towel to dry his face. When he heard, he turned and gave a smile, "Oh nothing wrong." After he got dry, he put the paper towel in the trash can, and just as he was about to walk by DX, DX had raised his arm in front of him to block his face.

"Jonathan, it's me, DX, there are no one else in here. So what's wrong, what did you see?"

After a minute, Jonathan sighed, "That boy has a hard future head of him."

DX looks at him, "Your chronicle showed you his future?"

Jonathan would've nodded if he had forgotten that DX could only see code. "His future depends on a choice he makes," Jonathan whispered, he slowly turned away. "There's a war coming."

"What?" DX asked, sounded surprised.

"A war that's going to consume this world and it depends on that boy's choice," Jonathan replied.

DX shook his head, now looked annoyed, "We will defend this world, Jonathan, the pharaoh had managed too when he took down Zorc. I will make sure this world stays safe."

Jonathan looked to DX, "Remember DX, I'm with you on this, we will protect this world, together."

DX sighed, he turned around and started to walk away, he seems to prefer to do it alone.

Jonathan follows, "But we don't know which sides are good or bad."

DX didn't look back, "Whoever is the group who plans to ruin this world, I will take them down."

Jonathan sighed, "Sometimes DX, things can only be done in groups. Like Yugi and his friends."

He follows DX out of the restroom; DX didn't replied, only thinking of the upcoming future.

Joseph was looking in a game shop in the mall, till he was standing in front of the shelves that contain thousands of duel monster card packages. His right hand on his chin, rubbing his goatee chins as he thinks.

'I know that I pretty much got the entire collection already,' Joseph thought to himself. 'But then again, this world is basically the anime world, and there were so many shows that had cards that didn't come in card from back home.' He smiled as a thought comes to mind, 'Yes, some of those cards were great, may be great improvement to my deck.'

He then started to gather a few pack of cards, and as he picked up many, he merely grin at the thought. He had picked up several, than he headed to the counter.

Once at the counter, he set down the pack of cards, which the sales clerk does his work while Joseph then brings out his wallet. He was then counting the right amount of money to pay for the packs.

"Hey, aren't you the guy who beat Seto Kaiba?" asked someone, gaining Joseph's attention he turned to see who.

A six feet and five inches tall slightly muscular man, he has long brown hair, blue eyes, clean shaven. He wore dark green jacket with a white t-shirt underneath, blue jeans and a brown belt, and brown shoes. On his left arm is a duelling disk, and around his neck is a necklace with what looks like a medallion with a dragon's face on it.

'That dragon face looks familiar, where have I seen that?' Joseph asked himself in thought, than shook his head. "Um yeah, may I help you?" he asked, than he heard the clerk said how much the pack of cards cost, so Joseph merely handed him the money.

"Name's Gregory Shonheart, nice to meet you," Gregory said with a smile.

"Well hi, I'm Joseph Hikari," Joseph replied. The clerk gave Joseph his change and the bag that contains the packs of cards with the receipt. Once his money is back in the wallet, he moves aside to allow others.

"Heard of you, people saying you beat Seto Kaiba, but nobody said what kind of duellist you are," Gregory said as he and Joseph moves to outside of the store and into the mall. "Just a guess, but are you by any chance a dragon duellist?"

Joseph looked a bit surprised, "Yes, and you are one too?"

Gregory was smiling when he got his answer, which is pretty much obvious to Joe's answer. "Good guess, its great find other dragon duellists around, there aren't many around," Gregory said.

Joseph crossed his arms and nodded a bit while thinking. 'Besides me, there's Joey and Seto, but Joey only has one dragon, while Seto has a few. Those two are fans of dragons thou, but still, there aren't many.' "True, you got a point there," Joseph said.

"Yeah, so is there a chance I can have a duel with you?" asked Gregory.

Joseph looks away, trying to see if there's a clock or something with the mall, seeing one, he saw the time. It is nearing closing time for the mall, so he looks to Gregory, "Sure, but how about at Domino Park instead of outside the mall?"

Gregory grins, "That would be fine with me, let's go." He then turns and walks away and Joseph follows behind him. As they go, Gregory turned slightly to look at Joseph, "By the way, do you attend Domino High? Your clothing matches student regulation clothing."

Joseph nodded, "Yes, I am an exchange student from Canada."

"Oh, how long?" asked Gregory.

"A few days so far, going back at the end of the month," Joseph replied, they neared the exit of the mall, while unknowingly; they have followers.

The three lackeys were sitting side-by-side on a bench, each of them holding newspapers each in front of them, covering their faces. And as Joseph and Gregory walked by them, those three peek over their newspapers to watch the duo heading to the mall's entrance.

DX was nearing the mall's entrance as well, still looking around, while Jonathan is no longer with him. DX was still trying to find that certain choran code, depending if that guy is still here and near.

'Great, where did Jonathan go off too?' he asked himself in thought, noticing his chatty friend's disappearance. 'Knowing him, he's pestering someone else.'

Just then, he saw that natural unique code, the light and dark purple code, which was walking beside a normal choran code.

"Wait, another one? Where are they popping out from?" asked DX, sounded quite surprised. Then noticing those two are walking away, so he quickens his pace.

He sees three red codes, humans, getting off of a bench and nearly blocking his way, but manages to walk around them. "Excuse me," DX politely said, and headed towards the entrance.

Just as he was nearing, he face planted into a glass door. He groans, 'That's annoying.' The door slides open, allowing him to walk through, rubbing his sore nose with his right hand. He then carefully walks forward with his left hand out, in case he bumps into another glass door as he follows the two choran codes.

Seeing those two codes further away, he was about to follow, and just as he was nearing them, he was stopped by a human who took hold of his shoulder.

"Hold your horses pal, you nearly walk into traffic," said a pedestrian.

DX groans as he just saw codes of what would represent vehicles with people inside them go by. 'This is getting very annoying,' he thought to himself, looked annoyed.

About four minutes later, it was then safe to walk across, which DX chose to run, trying to catch up to the two.

As Joseph and Gregory walk down the street, a while ago, after leaving the mall, Joseph put the bag of card packs into his backpack.

Right now they're talking about topics, mainly of duels. They even shared cellphone numbers, which Joseph learned that Gregory's Duelling Title is Grand Dragon, while Gregory learned Joseph is the Dragon Chronicler.

They both had shared a good laugh, while Joseph had notice a small hint, that title reminded him of a duel monster card, he was still thinking about that medallion too.

Just as they're nearing halfway, Gregory asks, "So what is your favourite card?"

"Now that's a toughie," Joseph replied, now thinking about it. "Well, I guess my favourite card will be…"

"Um excuse me you two," asked a panted person, who came to a stop behind them. Both Joseph and Gregory turned to see who.

Seeing a similar uniform that Joseph wore, a man who was bending forward, his hands on his knees. Took a while to catch his breath, than once he looks at the two, they notice his eyes, blind eyes.

That surprised the two, why was this guy running? And heck how did he know there were two of them?

"Are you okay dude?" asked Gregory, looking at the guy.

Joseph remains silent as he looks at the blind stranger, for some reason, there was something very off to the guy; a strange feeling.

"Just curious, but are any of you duellists?" asked the stranger.

"We both are, we're just heading to the park to have a duel," Gregory replied, than he notice the stranger has a duelling disk equipped to his arm. "Wait, how are you a duellist?"

Before the stranger could reply, Joseph spoke, "Either you're wearing expensive contact lens to make yourself look blind, or you have unique eyesight, probably the former."

"Good guess," said the stranger with a smile. "I'm Ben Alexander Pryse Thomas, but my friends call me DX."

"That's a big name, nice to meet you DX," Gregory said, he holds out his hand to shake. "I'm Gregory Shonheart; you can call me Gregory, by my title, Grand Dragon."

DX seem to not notice it for a second till he shook Gregory's hand with his free hand. Joseph shook hands with DX as well.

Joseph then introduces himself, "And I'm Joseph Hikari, also known as the Dragon Chronicler."

DX smiled, "Let me guess, you're both dragon duellists."

"Yeah it's obvious," Gregory chuckled, "you a dragon duellist too?"

DX shook his head, "No, and I don't have a duellist title, so just call me DX." He then looks at them both, "Will it be alright if I have a duel against one of you after your duel?"

Gregory smiled, "Sure."

"Sorry, but only one duel for me," Joseph said with his arms crossed. "I have school tomorrow, so I do not want to be late like next time."

"Oh, well would it be alright if I have a duel against you tomorrow then?" asked DX, now looking at him.

"Sorry, but I'm busy tomorrow, how about this weekend?" asked Joseph.

DX quietly groan, "Very well."

"But even so, you can come watch us have our duel," Joseph said.

"That be great," DX smiled.

"Great, let's go," Gregory said as he turned around to proceed.

"STOP THIEF!" yelled someone behind all three of them, each one of them turned to see a five feet and eight inches tall man covered in a black cloak with a red mask, and a black cape.

The thief pushed DX, who caught DX when he lost his balance, and pushed Gregory aside and continue running. Once DX regain his balance, he said thanks while a six feet tall golden armor paladin with a red cape arrived; he carries a shield on his back, a sheathed sword on his left side of his belt, and a gold helmet with a messy hairstyle.

By the armor which made seems weird, like a knight chasing after a thief. What is this, two people playing medieval?

"What's wrong?" asked Joseph, looking at the paladin who had stopped in front of him, while DX's eyes were widening, seemed shock.

"That thief stole my card! I must get it back!" said the knight, panting a bit.

Gregory became annoyed, "Want some help?"

"Allow us to help you catch the thief," Joseph said, thinking this knight would act like those regular knights.

"That would be great, thanks," replied the knight.

"Don't thank us yet," both Joseph and Gregory spoke at the same time. Then the knight ran off, with Joseph and Gregory chasing behind.

DX quietly asked himself, "Where are these choran popping out from?" He then follow behind, now running behind the three as they chase after the thief.

The thief ran into an alleyway, which the knight follows behind with the rest behind him. They continue the chase down the alleyway till they had lost sight of the thief at a fork of the alleyway.

Gregory spoke out, "We got to split up. Joseph, you go with the knight. DX, you're with me."

Joseph nodded then looks to the knight, "Let's go!"

"Right," the knight replied, than he and Joseph headed down the right alleyway.

DX looked like he wanted to say something till Gregory got into his face, "No time pal, we got a thief to catch!" Then he headed down the left alleyway.

DX groans, than he follows Gregory.

To Joseph and the knight, they ran down the narrow alleyway, with the knight in the lead.

Feeling curious, Joseph asked, "What did the thief stole?"

"He stole my card, the ace of my deck," the knight replied. "It's a one of a kind card, I must get it back."

Joseph can understand that reason, heck he has the De Ragan card, if it was stolen, he'll be chasing after the thief too. Then with him behind the knight he saw the shield on the knight's back, the shield looks like its part duelling disk.

'A knight duellist, no doubt he uses warrior cards,' Joseph thought to himself.

"There he is!" the knight shouted.

Up ahead, the black cloaked thief is seen; he was heading out of the alleyway exit. And further ahead is a street with the park on the other side.

"He's heading to the park," Joseph said.

"Catch him, don't let him get away!" the knight ordered and the duo continues their chase. They followed the thief, glad that the street wasn't busy so safe to cross, and they followed the thief into the park.

But the sun was close to setting, and thanks to the thief wearing black clothing, if it gets dark, he'll get away.

They eventually lost sight of the thief once more the moment they came to the central part of the park.

Having no idea where the thief went, the knight shouted, "NO!"

Joseph was looking around, listening, besides them; there were no other sounds except busy sounds of the city, some birds tweeting, but no footsteps. Having a feeling, he said, "He's near."

The knight instantly looks to Joseph, he demanded, "Where?"

"Your new friend is sharp as ever," said a male's voice, with a sinister chuckle coming after, "while you my dear friend, remain clueless as ever...Pyro!"

"Show yourself you fiend!" the knight shouted out, while Joseph merely look in the direction where the voice came from. It was nice to know who's the knight's name is at least.

Then just as the city's park street lamps came on while it became night, the thief slowly reveals himself by walking out from behind a tree.

"There you are thief; now give me back my card!" Pyro demanded as he drew out his sword. "Or face my wrath!"

"Oh put away your silly toy, Pyro," said the thief as he pulls out what looks like a card. Joseph had noticed he was equipped with a duelling disk on his left arm. "Otherwise, I'll just tear this card into pieces."

He reveals the card, Joseph couldn't see what it says on the card, but he could tell it's a dragon card. Pyro had flinched and sheathed his blade.

"Good boy, and now, in order for you to get this silly card back, you must defeat me in a duel," said the thief.

"Fine!" shouted Pyro, he quick brings out his shield and equips it to his left arm. "I will defeat you and get my card back!" Then he looks to ally, "Stand back citizen, I'll handle this."

The thief chuckled, "You really are dense, Pyro. That citizen is a top rank duellist who manages to get to help you. He's one of the high ranks that make you looks like a joke, of course not strong as me."

Pyro seemed confused, he looks to Joseph and he asked, "What is your name?"

"I am Joseph Hikari, also known as the Dragon Chronicler," Joseph said, which Pyro merely gawked, he seem to not realized he had someone who beat Seto Kaiba assisting him. "And to any thief, you are no exception, you will return his card."

The thief laughs while he pockets the card, "Oh, it depends if you both can defeat me, and that's a big IF!"

"Wait, only I will duel you!" Pyro shouted.

"Fool, it will be two-on-one duel, if he won't duel me, I will tear your card to pieces," said the thief.

Pyro flinches in anger; he so much wanted to teach this fiend a lesson.

"Allow me to help you Pyro, together we'll defeat this thief and you'll get your card back," Joseph said.

Pyro sighed in anger, "Fine, we'll do it your way, thief! It's not honourable, but I will save my card!"

"Good, speaking like a moron that you are," said the thief. "Oh, and before I forget, I am known as Dark. And now then, since it's two against one, you both have 4000 life points while I have 8000. Now then…"

Each of them activated their duelling disks; both Joseph and Pyro stand near each other and facing Dark. Once their auto-shuffle finished shuffling their decks, each of them exclaimed, "Let's DUEL!"

'Whoa, that escalated quickly? Who is this Dark? Why is Pyro dress as a knight? What are the Organization's Goals? And what is DX? Will Gregory and DX find them? Find out next time on YuGiOh! Duels of the Actillian!'