Of Youma and Duel Monsters

I came up with this ideal and thought it would be interesting. Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or Sailor Moon. Now on for the first chapter.

Two Couples, Two Worlds

Yugi and Anzu were sitting in Domino Park with duel disks on their arm. Much has changed since they saw Atemu off to the afterlife. For one, Yugi, upon learning that Atemu's feelings for Anzu was that what a brother would feel, asked Anzu out a month after Atemu had left. Another, Anzu had asked Yugi to teach her how to play Duel Monsters and she turned out to be quite good, giving-Joey-a-run-for-his-money good. They were sitting in the park after they had dueled each other. As the sun began to slowly set, Yugi rose to his feet and looked to Anzu. "Do you want to home?" Yugi asked.

"Not yet," replied Anzu.

Yugi looked up to the sky and something inside him stirred. "Would you like to see something?"

"What something?"

"Come and you will find out," said Yugi as he took Anzu's hand.

"I will, but don't forget your backpack."

Yugi chuckled a little at the reminder and picked up the blue backpack he had since high school. Now instead of books, the backpack held enough packs of Duel Monster cards to make four decks and four compact-version of the duel disks. After placing the backpack on his back, he and Anzu started to walk away from the park.

Darien was trying to find his depressed girlfriend in the park. For her friends, they had given up on cheering her up, but Darien had not. As he let out a sigh and looked up at the sky, he thought about the last time Serena had went missing and stayed out in the rain eventually getting sick and he had to take care of her. Since Luna and Artemis had died, Serena had been depressed, but there was no reason for her to be so depressed about just Luna and Artemis. It seemed as there was something more that was making the girl depressed and Darien just didn't know what it was.

Continuing to look, Darien was beginning to doubt what Motoki had said about seeing Serena in the area, but then he heard her sobs. He followed the sound to her and sat next to her. Upon realizing his presence, Serena lean into him and he wrapped his arms around her which seemed to stop her from crying any more. "I was worried about you," Darien said softly. "I did not want a repeat of last time."

Serena didn't answer Darien, but he knew that she understood what he meant. For awhile, the two sat there in silence, hidden from the world around them. Then they heard some rustling in the trees and both became alert, trying to listen and figure out if there was danger. As the rustling stopped, both got up and went to search to see if they could find the sound. When they returned back to place where they started at, they noticed a key hanging in the trees. "When did that get there?" Serena asked.

"I didn't notice that when left," said Darien as he looked at the key and notice it had a weird eye symbol. "It is not from these parts because it has something weird on it."

"It can't be a key of Pluto's, but what...," said Serena as the key started to glow.

Darien was about to reply, but the key's glow engulfed them.

Yugi had lead Anzu up a beach that was some distance away from Domino, but not too far. When they came to a cave, Yugi took her inside and Anzu was stunned by what she saw. "Interesting, isn't it?" Yugi asked as he leaned against the cave wall.

"This ship," said Anzu pointing to a ship that was from ancient Egypt in appearance before pointing to the stone tablet before it, "and that stone tablet look like they are both from Egypt."

"They are."

"How?"

"That is a very long story, but to make it short, these two items are connected to the founder of the Sharks, the Solic Traveler."

"I've heard of the Sharks," said Anzu.

"My father is the Triscorn of the Sharks," said Yugi as he crossed his arms.

"Why you didn't tell me or everyone else?"

"My father has been laying low for a few years because his job has gotten in the way of his duties as Triscorn. In his last letter to me, he told me that his job will not be interfering with those duties and that before he came home that he would be visiting one of the Sharks that does not live in Domino."

"What will happen after that?"

"The Sharks will probably come back even though no one knows who Calick's sons are."

"I've heard of him. I didn't know he had more than one son."

"He did and I knew Calick quite well."

The two then stood in silence, but it was broken when a key with a crescent moon design on it started to glow above them. "What is that?" Anzu asked.

"I really don't know," Yugi replied back before the light engulfed them.

Serena opened her eyes and saw that she and Darien was no longer in Tokyo. The world was dark and foggy, reminding her of where Pluto and the Gates of Time were located at. Then her eyes caught two figures lying across from her and Darien. One was a young man with pointy tri-colored hair and the other was a girl about the same age with brunette hair. As she felt Darien's hand touch her, she looked at him to see that he was looking at the other couple before them. "Who are they?" Darien whispered into Serena's ear.

"I don't know," she whispered back as the two in front of them started to awake.

Yugi opened his eyes and saw two people, one female, the other male. Looking to the side to see that Anzu was okay and starting to wake up, he then look back at the two before him. "Where are we and who are you two?" Yugi asked.

"This place looks like where the Gates of Time is located at, but that is not where we are," said the girl as she looked around. "By the way, my name is Serena Tsukino."

"Darien Chiba," said Darien.

"My name is Yugi Muto," said Yugi before looking at Anzu. "I assume you know what we are talking about."

"Yes," said Anzu as she rose to kneeling position. "I am Anzu Mizaki."

"It is nice to meet you," said Serena. "Now we should figure out where we are."

"I agree," said Yugi. "I wonder if that glowing key with a crescent moon had anything to do with this."

"Before we came here, we saw a glowing key with this weird eye design on it," said Serena.

"Describe the design," said Yugi.

"ummm...I don't remember it exactly," said Serena.

Darien looked at the ground and with his fingers drew the eye design as he remembered. "It was something like this."

"I know what it is. Something that deals with ancient Egypt in the world we came from. Then the key we saw might have something to deal with your world," said Yugi.

"It does," said Serena before she started to cry.

Darien wrapped his arms around her and saw he probably should explain. "She been like this for a few days."

"I do know what causes her grief," said a man walking towards them. "It is not a mistake that you four have met here in this realm."

"Who are you?" Yugi asked as he looked at the man noticing he was wearing clothes of ancient Egypt.

The man looked at Serena,who was still sobbing, before answering. "I am the King of Peace and once I was the human who fathered Trutem and Arkatem as well as the four other Lost Pharaohs."

"The Lost Pharaohs?" Yugi responded with surprise.

"Yes, I was their father," said the King of Peace. "I am sure your father has told you about them."

"He has," said Yugi, "but I never would have suspected someone else to know about them. If you were once human and their father, why are you here?"

"I will tell you once I can cheer up this one," said the King of Peace knelling near Serena and offering his hand to her. "Everything will be alright, milady. Dry your eyes and I'll then explain everything." With a flick of his wrist, the King of Peace held a tissue in his hand which Serena took.

"Thank you, sir," said Serena.

"I happy to see that you are more cheery," said the King of Peace before gesturing to the place around them. "This place is where I reside. It's between different worlds, worlds where different beasts may appear, but recently the beasts are starting to make the trip to go to the other worlds. The only way to stop them is to have people who have fought against them and won go to the other worlds. That is why you four are here. You have been chosen to fight the beast that have been crossing to other worlds. Also, I don't have a clue to how to fix this problem for good."

"Is there a solution to fix it?" Yugi asked.

"Yes," said the King of Peace. "I should let you four tell each other about your own respective worlds and lives and get some sleep. I will see you in the morning." He bowed and then disappeared.

"Weird old man," said Serena.

"His advice does have some truth in it. Since we will be going to the other's world, we will need to know some things."

"Since you are going to our world," said Darien as he dug into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys, "I will give you the key to my apartment. There is a guest room that you can use." He then handed a single key to Yugi who took it and put it into his pocket.

"Things in our world will be a little more complex. We still live with our family, but my grandpa might be able to find somewhere to stay. If my father is back from his trip, he should defiantly be able to find you a place to stay that is close to my home," said Yugi. "I will write a letter that you can give to my grandfather. My letter should be able to get him to help you."

"Maybe I should have my friends help you two when you get to our world," said Serena.

"It would probably be helpful to them. My directions to my apartment probably would be too confusing to them," said Darien.

"Then I will write the letter. Hopefully, Rei doesn't mind people coming to her place," said Serena.

"Wish we could get to know each other a little better before we have to go our separate ways," said Anzu.

"I think know each others' friends should help," said Yugi. "I will write the letter now."

When the King of Peace came upon the foursome, he found that they had become close and the two couples exchanged letters, passing with them directions to a certain place. "I see you have become friends, but before I send you off, I have a few things to tell you. I will give you each a key to get back to your own world, but you can only use them once. The other thing is that each of you will have a blank card. That blank card will become a card to be used in Duel Monsters, but they are special and will come in handy once you know why they are special."

"Then where are these four blank cards?" Yugi asked.

"Catch," said King of Peace as he threw four blank cards.

Darien and Yugi were able to catch two of the four cards. Darien looked at the blank card. "I wonder what this card will become?" Darien asked.

"You will know as soon as you get to the other world," said the King of Peace before turning towards Yugi. "I know you cannot control your shadow magic and have sealed it away in a pearl. You will find a way to control it when you get to the other world. Here are the keys." Then he handed each group a key with the male taking the key. "You are going to need to hold on to each other because you will get separated if you don't." Yugi took Anzu's hand and Darien took Serena's. "Ready?" Both nodded and then disappeared.

Yugi woke to find his vision filled with green blades. Rising to a sitting position, he looked around him. Anzu was laying next to him and they were surrounded by trees. It was the exact place where the other couple had left their world. "This is amazing," said Yugi as Anzu sat up next to him.

"Should we get going?"

"Yes," replied Yugi to Anzu. "We should because we really don't know how far it is."

They both rose to their feet and began to walk. Once out of the trees, they saw they were in the park as described and began to take walking how they were directed by the couple from this world. When they reached the temple's steps, Yugi let out a huge sigh. "At least, we are almost there," said Anzu.

"I know, but really can a place have so many steps?" Yugi asked.

Anzu laughed before she started to climb steps followed by Yugi. When they reached the top, a young woman with raven-colored hair was feeding some crows. Anzu recalled the description of the one who they would be talking to and looking at the woman with raven-colored hair. Realizing it matched, Anzu tried to think of how to approach this. "Are you Rei Hino?" Anzu asked.

"Yes and who," said Rei as turned and round and saw Anzu and Yugi, "are you? You are not from around here."

"We aren't," said Yugi pulling out the letter from Serena and giving it to Rei. "Your friend explained everything in there."

Rei took the letter and than began to read it. Once she was done, she looked up at Yugi and Anzu. "I will need to make some calls before I can explain what she wants me to," said Rei before standing. "Come with me."

Darien opened his eyes to see sand in front of him. He rolled over and saw there was no sky, but rock. Rising to his feet, he looked around and saw the ship that had been described to them. It was quite impressive considering how old it was, supposedly. He looked to the ground to see Serena still had not awaken yet. With a smile on his face, he felt relieved that she was able to sleep without nightmares. Taking his eyes off the sleeping princess, he then strolled over to the ship and the tablet that stood before. While he made his way to the ship and tablet, he began thinking about what he would do once everything was back to normal. He was thinking about taking Serena out to a fancy restaurant and try to get through to her that if she ever was thinking about crying again, he would want her to come to him instead of going off and worrying him as well as her friends.

Reaching the tablet, Darien looked down at it and saw he could not read it all because it was in some strange language. His eyes glanced up at the ship before him, studying it to try to figure out what was the history behind it. There was something about this ship that seemed important, Darien thought. Even thought he could not figure out what was important about the ship, his thoughts turned back to Serena and how he could make sure she did not tear up when hearing anything that would remind her of Luna and Artemis. He sighed and knew it would be a huge task, but deciding that keeping her mind off the subject of Luna and Artemis would work just as well.

Looking back at Serena, Darien saw she was still sleeping. Knowing that there wouldn't be much to do until she woke, he went over to her, sitting down next to her, and situated himself so that she would be laying on him. Settling down, he found he did felt sleep was coming to him and soon he was out.

Serena awoke refreshed and discovered she was in someone's arms. She did knew whose arms they belong to. "Darien," said Serena as she nudge him.

He let go of her and she got off him before he sat up. "I wasn't on planning on sleeping, but I guess I did," said Darien. "Did you sleep well?"

"Yes," said Serena, "but why did you not wake me when we got here?"

"I thought you needed the sleep," said Darien with a smirk, "but we have wasted enough time sleeping and should get going."

Serena nodded and the two of them rose to their feet before they started to walk out of the cave.

It was almost midday and Darien and Serena had not found Yugi's grandfather's place. Serena was starting to fall a few paces behind Darien. "Darien, could we stop somewhere?"

Darien stopped and turned towards Serena. "We should. I think we are kinda of lost."

"This is just great."

"I know, but at least, we know our currency will be accepted here. So, what do you want?"

"Anywhere would be fine."

"Then, let's go."

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So how was it? I know Serena and Darien are not exactly in character, but I think I will get better at writing them. Since I've never written Sailor Moon fics, I will probably not get most of the characters in character and that is why I NEED FEEDBACK FROM YOU, MY READER. Thank you to all who review this chapter in advance. For those who have read my other stories, I will not be putting a preview for the next chapter, but writing that preview for my own purposes.

So READ and REVIEW.