Chapter 2: Close Encounter
The sun was just beginning to rise as every Duelists gathered in the Great Hall.
"If we can go now before the fog thickens then we can find the lair and destroy it." Gaston said and stabbed the part of the map were the Spirit Lair was suppose to be.
"But those ships never come back." Someone in the crowd called.
Gaston growled.
"Listen, winter is almost here and if we don't destroy this lair now then the Millennium Spirits will probably win this war. Now who's with me?" He asked.
But when everyone began to mumble excuses Gaston went with plan B.
"Alright, those who stay have to look after Yugi."
Everyone's hand shot up after those dreaded words left his mouth.
"Right then, I better go pack my undies." Grandpa said grumpily as everyone went to gather supplies.
"No I need you to stay here and train some new recruits." Gaston said.
"Ok and while I'm busy Yugi can cover the store. No supervision, dangerous objects and lots of time to himself. What could possibly go wrong?" Grandpa asked sarcastically.
"What am I gonna do with him Solomon?" The chief asked his father-in-law.
"Put him in training with the others." The old man replied plainly.
"Are you mad Solomon?! He'd be killed before you let the first Spirit out of it's cage!" Gaston shouted.
"You don't know that."
"Yes I do."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do."
"No you don't." Solomon finished firmly.
"I know it's hard Gaston but your not always gonna be around to protect him, he's gonna get out there again, he's probably out there now."
Gaston began to think about what Solomon had just said...
Yugi walked through the forest for what seemed like forever.
He looked back in his sketch book where he had drawn a map of the forest only to see dozens of crosses where the Pharaoh he shot the night before could have crashed.
He sighed irritably and put the sketch book away.
As he trudged along he kepted muttering to himself.
"I can't believe this! Most people lose either their Deck or Duel Disk but I happen to lose an entire Millennium Spirit!"
He tried to whack a tree branch out of the way but it came back smacked him in the face.
When he looked up Yugi saw the half the tree was hanging off!
Looking down where the top of the tree was Yugi noticed what seemed like a never ending trench running down the forest trail like a scar.
As Yugi walked along the trench he saw claw marks on the ground, rocks and trees.
When he peered his spikey head over the small hill he quickly ducked down again.
Slowly, he looked back up and saw a person trapped in the chains of the trap Shadow Spell that Yugi used.
It was the Pharaoh.
Yugi quickly pulled out the small dagger he always carried and carefully crept over to the Spirit and took a closer look.
"It looks just like me." He muttered.
The Pharaoh had the same hair skin colour as Yugi and hair but he had crimson tips instead of violet and it had three lightning strikes going up.
Yugi began to chuckle and placed his foot on the Spirit's back.
"Yes I did it! I have brought down this mighty beast!"
Suddenly the Pharaoh shifted under the boy's foot.
Yugi gasped and quickly backed away in fear.
After he calmed down a little he slowly walked over to the trapped Spirit, his eyes travelled from it's feet up to it's head where Yugi's innocent amethyst eyes locked with stunning crimson ones.
The young boy and Pharaoh stared into each other's eyes for what seemed like an eternity.
Yugi's stare soon turned into a glare.
"I'm gonna kill you Spirit cause I'm a Duelist!" He exclaimed and raised his dagger.
He watched as the Pharaoh slowly lowered it's head and closed it's eyes, waiting for the finishing blow.
But it never came.
Instead Yugi looked at the helpless creature and realisation hit him like a tidal wave.
"I did this." He whispered as he lowered the dagger.
He turned to leave but he remembered that it wasn't safe for it here.
Someone was else was sure to find it.
Quickly he was at the Spirit's side and began to use his dagger to cut the chains away.
The Pharaoh's eyes shot open as it felt the chains around itself loosen.
When Yugi was almost finished cut the rest of the chains, the Pharaoh suddenly jumped up and pinned the smaller boy against the boulder.
Yugi didn't even dear to breath.
He watched as the Millennium Spirit snarled at him.
Suddenly there was a flash of white light and when Yugi opened his eyes he saw a Koumori Dragon flying away, but for some reason it kept crashing in rocks and trees as it flew away.
Yugi slowly got up as he tried to breath again, when he tried to walk however, he immediately fell to the ground and fainted from shock...