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I was panting from my ten hour flight, sitting on a park bench while I caught my breath. "Alright… I made it to the city… what now…" I asked Lumina as a Duel Monster flew past me.
Apparently the whole world was dealing with monster sightings… except for Amity Park… imagine that. Most were none violent so I decided to more or less ignore them unless they attacked. "We need to find the Pharaoh." Lumina appeared next to me in her semitransparent form.
"Alright, what does he look like?" I asked standing back up.
"I… don't know." I fell over stunned.
"You made me fly across the world to find this guy and you don't even know what he looks like?" I stared dumfounded at the spirit. I wasn't worried about anyone seeing me talking to myself. Since anyone with sense was inside hiding. I sat back down on the bench and put my head in my hands.
"The Pharaoh is the reincarnation of a Pharaoh from five thousand years ago. I have been locked away for ten thousand years." She crossed her arms over her chest and glared at me. "How am I supposed to know what he looks like?" Then she had a far off look in her eyes. "I am sure that he will be a tall, powerful, handsome man who knows how to treat a lady… unlike you." She stuck her tong out at me.
"Harsh." I flopped down on the bench. "So what? I doubt something will happen if we just wait here." I said starting to wonder what I should do.
"AHHHH!" I heard a scream coming from a block away.
"I just had to upon my big mouth." I shout up and ran for the noise with Lumina flouting beside me. I turned the corner of a hedge and found two people surrounded by monsters, and they didn't look friendly.
Not stopping to think, I ran straight for the monster and used my ghostly strength to start knocking heads. After beating back a small dragon and some weird looking birds I saw four large rodents like creatures running for us. I lifted my Duel Disc and pressed the hidden button on the bottom of the device. It triggered the built in Fenton Wrist Ray which I used to knock the rodents back.
That destabilized the force that was keeping them in this world and the shattered, returning to the Realm of the Beasts. But then a Zombie Dragon showed up. I dodged its claw, and returned fire, but my wrist ray wasn't strong enough.
"Well this is bad." I mumbled wondering if I should just transform and hope that they won't recognize me later.
"Phantom, just use your cards already." Lumina said flouting next to me.
"You want me to fight it with a hologram… I really don't think that will work." I said giving her a look.
"Just do it!" She shouted impatiently at me. I shrugged and drew a card from my deck.
"Lightsworn Saber." I played the card down. A flash of light appeared in my right hand and I found myself holding the sword. I was startled out of my shock by an attack from the dragon. I jumped up onto its back and drove the sword into the monsters back. It destabilized and I fell as its body shattered. I managed to land on my feet and looked to see that the other monsters had runoff.
"That was… a little too easy." I said looking back to the people I had come to rescue. "You two alright?" I asked. I said offering my hand. The younger one was little blond haired girl with glasses who looked like she would be around eight years old and wore a pink uniform of some kind. She took my hand and I helped her to her feet.
"Thank you. You were right in time to save me and my Grandpa." She said dusting herself off and straightening her glasses. "I'm Rebecca Hawkins, and this is my Grandpa." She started introducing herself. Then she seemed pretty curious, not that I could blame her considering I came out of nowhere and took down a bunch of monsters. "Where did you learn to fight like that?" She asked me.
I was starting to rub the back of my neck wondering what I should do when her Grandfather stepped in. He had graying hair and a thick mustache and was wearing a gray suit. "Now Rebecca, is that any way to thank him for helping us, by grilling him with questions?" Rebecca apologized.
"It's ok." I assured them with a smile. "But you really shouldn't be on the streets right now. You do realize that it isn't safe." I said looking at them with my own bit of curiosity.
"Of course we know that. Be my Grandpa has some important research to do on Atlantis. We think it has something to do with what is going on, and we need to get to the Pharaoh's exhibit at the museum right away." Rebecca said seriously… a little too serious for her age.
My eyebrow rose slightly. 'Running into two people that know something important, I am never this lucky.' She noticed my expression and got angry. "You don't believe me do you? You are just like all the others that refuse to recognize my Grandpa's work!" She shouted angrily.
I blinked and waved my hands in front of me trying to defend myself. "No you got it all wrong, I believe you. It is just that I was told to come here to help look into what is going on and the only hint I was given was something about a Pharaoh." I said and she looked at me with disbelief. "I was sitting around wondering what I should do when I found you two. I just can't believe I am this lucky." I said rubbing the back of my neck and smiling.
Rebecca and her Grandfather just stared at me. "So you don't think my Grandpa is crazy for believing in Atlantis?" Rebecca asked me.
I looked at her and saw the same look that must have been in my eyes whenever someone made fun of my parents work. I smiled. "I know it is hard to get people to believe in things that they don't want to. Just remember that there are still people that deny that mankind ever reached the moon, and everyone thought that Albert Einstein was crazy for his thoughts on light speed." I reasoned. "Don't let anyone get you down. If they don't try to even listen, then they're just idiots."
She looked down and smiled at her feet. "Thank you." She said. I thought back to all the ridicule that I had always gotten from people about my parents job. I still feel guilty for not having more faith in them when I was younger, and for letting the bullies get to me. I bet Rebecca had to go though the same thing because of her Grandfather's work.
"No problem." I said with a smile. "So, how about I go to the Museum with you two? I would be some help if you get attacked again."
"You're welcome to come, and your help would be much appreciated. I am afraid that our rental car was destroyed by the monsters so we will have to walk the last mile there." The Grandfather said. "By the way, I don't think we ever got your name."
I smiled. "It's Danny, Danny Fenton." I said shaking his hand. And so we went, I have to admit his work on Atlantis was interesting to say the least. He had a few photo's from some ruins that he had found at the bottom of the ocean floor. Though I did find it a little weird that the Duel Monsters card game had roots there. The small questioning of it though ended with me getting kicked by Rebecca.
Arthur Hawkins's back gave out half way there and I had to carry him the rest of the way. He insisted that it wasn't necessary, but I ignored his protests. So after twenty minutes we had reached the Museum and we had only had to deal with a 'Twin Headed Dragon' along the way.
I was a little surprised that the Museum was still open all things considered. We went down the stairs to the Egyptian Pharaoh exhibit. "This is incredible." Arthur said looking at a slated rock that was covered in ice.
"Care to explain to those of us that can't read Egyptian runes?" I asked the old man as he had his face pressed against the glass with his eyes wide.
He leaned back and looked at us give a short laugh. "Sorry, I certainly will, but first we need to find Yugi. This all involves him and I would rather not have to give the same explanation twice."
"Fair enough I suppose. So when is this Yugi guy going to get here?" I said with a shrug.
"We never told him that we were coming, and he wasn't home when we tried to call him." Rebecca said. "We are going to have to go and see if he is at the Game Shop."
"Please do." Arthur said not looking away from his work. "Daniel, would you terrible mind going with Rebecca to go and find Yugi."
"No problem, but are you sure you want to let your granddaughter out of your sight during times like this, especially with someone you only met today?" I was a little surprised by his level of blind trust.
"We already owe you our lives. I don't think it would be that farfetched to place some more faith in you." Arthur waved my question off still yet to look away from the runes.
"Don't bother trying. When my Grandpa starts working like this nothing can get through to him." Rebecca counseled me before skipping towards the door. "I can't wait to see my Yugi again." She practically sang will humming to herself.
' 'My Yugi?' I'm not going to touch that one.' I thought as I ran after her. 'Since when has Danny Phantom been an escort service?'
"So what kind of person is this Yugi guy anyways?" I asked looking down at Rebecca out of the corner of my eye. We had a little way to walk so we might as well talk, and I didn't want to talk about me.
She played her hands on the checks trying to hide a blush. I had seen Phangirls do it when they talked about me. So this girl probably has it bad. "He is cute and kind. And he doesn't have those pride problems like other boys. He doesn't care about himself and always tries to do what is right for others."
"Sounds like a nice guy. So does he know you have a crush on him?" I asked causing her to go red.
"Is it really that obvious?" She asked me.
I managed to chock down the laugh and try to pretend that it was a cough, but she didn't buy it. "You were skipping along and humming to yourself and calling him 'my Yugi'. You might as well have bought a neon sign." I joked. She blushed and put her head down. But soon she was gushing over 'her Yugi' and telling me all kind of things about him. Apparently he was a high school student and was rather on the short side. She also said that he was the world's best player of the Duel Monsters card game. And with the new found popularity of the game that made him a practical celebrity.
I couldn't help feeling happy for her as she described her hopes and dreams. She was apparently some kind of child genius and was already in college. She reminded me of my sister, Jazz, who started writing her Undergraduate Thesis before she ever even left high school. "What about you Danny, what are your dreams?" She asked me.
I looked off into the sky and smiled. "I always wanted to be an Astronaut, and explore the unknown. I use to be so obsessed with it that I learned how to fly every kind of air craft you can imagine." I said remembering all the days of flight simulator and the time at the junior NASA training camp. My heart sank a little knowing that I could never do it anymore. "But I a little more than a year ago I found out that I had medical condition that would stop me from being picked for the space program…" I could feel the tears coming on. I hated admitting that my life's dream was gone. If I joined the space program, then there tests would show that I wasn't all human anymore. "I had to give up my dream." I said sadly.
"That must be awful. But… that doesn't explained why you're here." Rebecca looked like she did feel sorry for me, but her curiosity was winning out and her Grandpa wasn't here to remind her of her manners.
I smiled a little. "Promise not to laugh or say anything… unpleasant?" I asked her. She nodded so I continued. "My parents do research into 'spectral phenomenon as a product of inter-dimensional particle interactions caused by harmonic reactions in the earth's magnetic field', or in other words… ghosts." It was true enough, even if not the direct reason, it is how it all got started.
"So you're here to study the monster then?" She said starting to come to conclusions. That is the nice thing about dealing with smarter people. They fill in the gaps if that you miss in your story.
I was a little surprised that she didn't just laugh at my parents. It seemed like everyone did. But I suppose that she didn't want to be like the people that laughed at her Grandpa's theories. She was a bit full of herself, but she was a good kid with a bright future. I found myself explaining things about Ghosts with her willingly listening. 'Great, I'm blabbering on about ghosts…' I couldn't help but think. But she seemed genuinely interested.
Over three blocks away I could see four kids standing around. Three of them looked like they were juniors in high school, two boys and a girl. But the last one was shorter, he probably from a middle school. But that can't be right since he was wearing the same school uniform as the other two boys.
Suddenly Rebecca started running full speed at them. "I guess that is the group we were sent to find." I mumbled looking at the group.
"Indeed, I sense some magic coming from the group. I guess playing babysitter paid off." Lumina said in an annoyed voice.
"What's your problem? We are going to find the Pharaoh person. Why are you upset?" I asked her.
"I just never liked interacting with these humans. We Lightsworn are beings of battle. Things like history and politics do not concern us." She then sighed. "And this isn't how I imagined spending my days after being freed. Babysitting a little kid."
"Well you're the one that asked me to be here, so be nice." I told her to which she only laughed and said that none of them could see or hear her unless more power was channeled into her card. I was still feeling confused about the whole card thing.
I was walking towards the group and started to overhear their conversation. "You look different, did you get a haircut or something?" The blond one of the taller guys said.
"No, she traded in her teddy bear for glasses." Said the other one of the taller boys, he had brown hair that was stuck up a little in the front. They were both looking worriedly at Rebecca.
"I don't need a teddy bear anymore, because now I have a boyfriend to keep me safe." She said grabbing onto the smaller kids arm. Even though he must have been in high school, he was barely any taller than Rebecca herself. The girl in their group who hair looked like a brown box seemed a little shocked at this new development.
I smiled but then noticed a monster coming from up above them. It looked like one of those imaginative drawings of the grim reaper, with a cloak, scream masked like face and a scythe.
It was coming straight down at them in a predictable path and I just lifted my Duel Disc and activated the built in wrist laser function. The beam hit the creature and it shattered, startling the people who had been standing under it.
They all looked like they had just now noticed me. "Is that the boyfriend that would protect you that you were talking about?" The blond asked looking at me a little shocked.
"No!" Rebecca shouted pulling Yugi closer to her again. "This is Danny and he just saved my Grandpa and me from being attacked by the monsters earlier today."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Yugi." The short guy said extending the hand that he was not being held by Rebecca out towards me. I was a little take aback by his hair. It made Skulker's flaming green Mohawk look normal in comparison. It was three different colors, resisted gravity, and looking like it had some kind of star shape to it. I am pretty sure if he wasn't so short that he would be really easy to spot in a crowded area.
Then something happened that surprised me. As I want to shake his hand the upside down pyramid around his neck gave off a light that caused a shiver to go up my spine. It was as if there was a ghost there, but not one strong enough to trigger my ghost sense. A semi-transparent person stood next to Yugi. He looked almost exactly like Yugi, other than the expression on his face and how he held himself. He seemed… darker.
"Careful Yugi, I sense a dark presents coming from this one." The spirit said in a deep voice.
I glared. "You're not exactly Mr. Sunshine either." I said.
Everyone looked confused at my outburst except for Yugi and the spirit, who both looked shocked. "You can see the Pharaoh?" Yugi asked me.
"That is the Pharaoh that I came all this way to help out." I said looking at the guy. He was nothing like Lumina had imagined him. He was on the short side and didn't exactly radiate power or knowledge. "I was… expecting something… different." 'He doesn't even have his own body.' I shuck my head. "Doesn't matter, we shouldn't keep Professor Hawkins waiting any longer than necessary." I said.
"That's right Yugi. My Grandpa wants to talk to you." Rebecca told Yugi and started dragging him along.
"Professor, you want to talk to me." Yugi asked. After that we guided them back to the Museum. When we arrived there we found Professor Hawkins talking to another elderly man who seemed to be Yugi's Grandfather and a friend of the Professor's.
They turned to us as we enter the room. "Yugi Moto, you are just the person I need to see. I have a theory that all these monster sightings have something to do with you." Professor Hawkins said pointing at Yugi whose eyes widened.
"You mean it isn't my fault." I chuckled. "That's new."
Arthur turned back to the stone tablet that was incased in the weird ice. "This stone tablet confirms what I have believed all along, Yugi. You share a common bond with a five thousand year old Pharaoh, do you know what this means?"
"Yeah, that my life is more confusing than most kids." Yugi said. I didn't think that it was that confusing, but my view of what was hard to believe was a little off.
"Perhaps I could shed more light on the subject. I have spent the later part of my career studying Duel Monsters. It started as more than a game." No matter how many times I heard it, it still sounded really weird. "Egyptian Sorcerers used magic to seal real monster way in stone tablets. They would periodically release these monsters as a demonstration of their great power. As more monsters were collected the Sorcerers' powers grew and soon this shadow magic spun out of control. But one man was able to face this shadow magic and turn the darkness to light. The Ancient Pharaoh whose power you wear around your neck." The Professor finished his monologue.
"How does that explain what is happening now. Did these ancient monsters come back or something?" Yugi asked a look of worry on his face.
"I'm afraid so." Arthur said. "But there is another piece of this story you need to know. Ever heard of the lost city of Atlantic?"
"I read a great book about it once." The brown haired girl… Teau or something said.
"What? You nerd." The two taller boys reacted. 'Well they aren't going to be helpful in the future.' I couldn't help thinking.
The Professor chuckled a little before returning to the serious conversation act. "In my latest expedition I believe I may have discovered that lost city. An underwater world that existed long before Egypt. But what really puzzled me were the carvings I saw on the walls." He pulled the photos he showed me earlier and handed them to Yugi. "Take a look."
Yugi and his friends looked over a few and then said with shock the thing I had to be told. "No way, Duel Monsters." Only they lacked my skepticism or feeling of irony.
"Precisely, so these monsters didn't originate five thousand years ago in Egypt. They lived over ten thousand years ago in what I believe to be the legendary lost city of Atlantis."
"Do you know what these means. Your discovery could completely rewrite history." Yugi's Grandpa said.
"That is if people will be willing to believe it." I mumbled. "The history isn't what is real. It is what everyone believes is real." I said with a bit of resentment in my voice.
Yugi looked at another photo. "Look at this." He said, holding up a picture that had an eye surrounded by tentacles as monstrous creatures did battle in the city. "It looks like the monsters are attacking the city." He said.
"If you look at the picture more closely then you will see that only some of the monsters are destroying the city." Arthur said.
"Hey your right, so if only some of these monsters seem to be evil, then does that mean that the rest of them are good." Yugi asked.
"It probably isn't that simple. The monsters are more than likely running from something." I said think back to the Pariahs incident. "If a bear is driven out of the mountains and then it is startled and attacks a man, is the bear evil?" I shuck my head. "The world isn't that black and white."
"That may be true." Arthur said stroking his mustache in thought. "But I believe that there is a parallel world of monsters that exists alongside our world and that throughout history certain humans have been able to release these monsters. Some of them have helped mankind; others have tried to destroy it."
The brown hard guy, Tristan spoke up and said something that pissed me off. "Give me a break, you nutty Professor." I kicked him in the left shin and found that Rebecca had kicked him in the right one.
He fell to the ground holding his knees and complaining about the pain. "That's my Grandpa you're talking about!" Rebecca shouted at the injured boy. "You got that punk, anyone how messes with him messes with me! So keep your comments to yourself!"
"Will never happen again." He said struggling to get up to his feet.
"Don't worry, I am not stranger to ridicule and besides it is a farfetched theory." He said, I could hardly tell that the comment even upset him.
But Rebecca was still upset. "But it is true." She complained.
Then the blond guy, Joey spoke up. "I believe you Professor." He said. "After all the weird stuff that we have been through, I would believe everything. Like the time I fought Marik in that Shadow Game. All those attacks felt pretty really to me, and did you forget the times that Mia and Bakura got blasted to the Shadow Realm…" 'The Shadow Realm? What do they know about the Ghost Zone?' "Face it, there is plenty of stuff out there that can't be explained."
"Like how there is a Pharaoh living in my puzzle." Yugi said looking at his friend.
"Actually, our hypothesis suggests that the supernatural phenomenon you experience might actually find its roots in Atlantis." Rebecca said.
"Wow, those are some pretty big worlds especially coming from such a little kid." Tristan said like the idiot I had already pegged him as.
"A little kid! I'm a college student thank you very much." Rebecca shouted in indignation. All the others seemed surprised. Maybe people just didn't move ahead much in Japan. My sister, Jazz, was offered a way to apply to college early on, but she didn't do it because she thought that other people would look down on her because of her age.
"My granddaughter is quiet gifted." Arthur said proudly.
"Oh Grandpa, I am just your average child genius. Genius, G – E – N – I – U – S." She was showing off.
"Very impressive but can she spell 'Obnoxious'." Joey said and earned her wrath. "How can you stand her, Danny?"
"I have practice, my older sister acts a lot like her." I said simply.
"I still don't understand how all the monsters are appearing." Tristan said.
"We call it 'Harmonic Zone Linking'. The magnetic field in this world works on a similar one in an almost parallel dimension and causes a loss in energy. But to maintain the law of conservation of energy, it drags in energy from that other dimension causing the two magnetic fields to become even more similar." I started explaining the working of a random portal to them. "If it continues then they reach a harmonic overlay state in which the energy passing back and forth every second approaches infinity. Then when a particle enters the field from one side it is immediately broken down into photons and sent through. Then the photons act on the particles at the other end of the portal and form a copy of the original particle. This is the basic idea of inter dimensional transportation. The lights in the sky are from the polarizing effects of the changing magnetic fields." I finish my explanation and then noticed the lost look on their faces. The only one that had followed any of it was Rebecca and that was because I had already told her once while we were looking for Yugi.
"I didn't get a word of that." Joey said. "And Rebecca said that she was a genius."
I rubbed the back of my neck. "I'm not a genius. I am considered the idiot of my family. The only thing I understand is Physics and only the stuff about fluid mechanics that allow planes to fly and inter-stellar and inter-dimensional travel. Things like math, history, language and biology are all beyond me." I admitted and most of this stuff was taught to me by Frostbite. 'I wonder if Frostbite was one of the Lightsworn…' I shook the thought out of my head and continued. "But the problem is that even these almost parallel dimensions don't maintain a fixed distance from each other, so the portals are always temporary unless you develop a sort of adjustable gate using string theory principles to keep the two points intact. But that takes a lot of energy. You would need enough energy to power a whole city for a week just for one that you can fit your car through." I said thinking back to the Fenton Ghost Portal.
"Wait, you're telling me that there is a scientific explanation for what is going on?" Joey said in shock.
"Just because it is outside of the norm doesn't mean that there is no logic driving it. What do you think that there is some all powerful gods that are micro managing the whole universe in such a way that is meant to spite you in particular?" I asked him.
"Well… kind of." He said rubbing his head. I couldn't hold back a chuckle.
"Get back on topic, Phantom!" Everyone jumped as Lumina's voice came out of her card. "You are too philosophical for a Lightsworn."
I pulled out the card and glared at it. "Don't call me that, Summoner!" I said to her, and called her by her title instead of name. I really didn't want anyone connecting the name Danny Fenton with Phantom. "If you want to talk then just do it, 'Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner'." I placed the card on my Duel Disc and after a bright flash of light and some magic circles she materialized in front of them.
"She is amazing…" Rebecca said looking at Lumina with wide eyes.
She glared at me. "Fine, I will." She said sticking her nose up into the air. Then she looked to Yugi… or the spirit of the puzzle. "Pharaoh, I am Lumina, the Summoner of the Lightsworn. We were an elite vanguard that was the first to do battle against the Great Beast that now threatens all our worlds." She said to him.
"So you know what is going on then?" Yugi said a little hopeful.
"Well… no." Lumina admitted. I broke into chuckle and she hit me across the head. "We were only involved during the beginning of the war. We were cursed and sealed away by the Great Beast and I don't know how things turned out and we were not given the full details about what was going on before we entered the fight. All I know for sure is that the former King of Atlantis asked for our aid in fighting his son, the King of Atlantis." She said angrily.
"So you don't know why there are psycho bikers going around stealing peoples souls." Joey said gloomy.
"Am I the only one that finds it weird that we are talking to a trading card?" Teau said looking around.
"So you lost before you ever even knew what you were fighting for. Nice." I laughed at her.
To which she started hitting me on the head again and again. "We weren't told what was there before we were sent in. It was a hundred thousand on ten. We didn't stand a chance." She said miserably. I stopped laughing at her. I remembered looking out on the massive army of Pariahs's. The fear that gripped at me as I thought that there was nothing I could do to win, but knowing that I could never turn back. "We had sworn an oath that we would fight against all evils that threaten the Realm of the Beasts. We just didn't have the strength."
"So… then how are you going to help us?" The Pharaoh asked.
"Through Pha… Danny." She said looking at me. "He is a professional when it comes to dealing with monsters and his fighting ability is almost second to none. The Priestess that guards the Realm of the Beasts believes that it is your destiny, Pharaoh, to help fight against this evil."
"So what are your orders, sir?" I asked with a sigh as I wondered how bad it was going to be.
"To be honest I don't even know where to begin. Do we try to get all these monsters to go back to their own world, or should we focus on what that weird motorcycle gang is up to." Yugi said in defeat.
Yeah, it was bad. "Don't bother trying to send the monsters back were they come from. Trust me when I say that it is like trying to stop a ship that has a hole in it from sinking by throwing out the water. It will only slow down the inevitable, especially when it is a global sized hole like this one." I said waving off the first option. "And what is this biker gang that you keep talking about?" I asked.
They told me about their last few days. Apparently someone broke into their house, mugged Yugi's Grandpa and stole some kind of super cards that content untold magical powers. Then they challenged him to a duel to get them back and then they played some card that steals people's souls if they lose. "That is it. After this is over I am switching to Pokémon. No one ever loses there soul playing that." I said with a note of disgust. "But souls can't survive outside of a medium in this dimension for long. Did you see what they were contained in?" I asked.
"No they were just pulled away in a beam of light with the soulless body left behind." Yugi said as depressed about it as I was. "Do you know where they might have gone Professor?" Yugi asked.
"I am afraid that we have reached the end of my knowledge in the matter." Arthur shook his head.
"Wait a sec, I may have a clue." Yugi said and he pulled a necklace out of his pocket and showed it to us. In the center of the necklace was a rather dull looking greenish blue stone… at least it would have been dull if there wasn't giving off a strange light that that seemed to come from within it.
"Wow… that's awesome." Rebecca said staring at the necklace.
"What do you got there Yugi?" Arthur asked him.
"I'm not sure. The guys we dueled were carrying it." Yugi admitted.
"This looks very similar to something I found on my expedition." Arthur said. "Would you mind if I took it back to my lab, Yugi. I may be able to find something by researching it."
"Sure." Yugi said handing over the necklace.
"I think I will tag along with you two." I said to Arthur.
"What?" Lumina shouted. "But you're supposed to guard the Pharaoh!" She was clearly angry with me.
"If they are right, then the bad guys aren't going to like them sticking their noses into this business with Atlantis." I reasoned. "If the Pharaoh is supposed to be some chosen warrior to defeat the evil, then he should be able to take care of himself." I said and turned to Yugi. "If I was the enemy, then I would target your intelligence first and your soldiers last and then only after I made sure I had some blackmail or hostages to give me the upper hand. That is just how bad guys work."
Lumina groaned. "Wulf said that you were reasonable. We have to protect the Pharaoh, if he dies then the world is doomed. It is his destiny to save it."
"I am being reasonable, but I don't believe in destiny. Destiny is for people that have given up on finding their own way. If he fails then I will just have to do it myself." I stated crossing my arms in defense. "We need to find out the cause of all this as fast as possible to minimize casualties, and for that we need info."
By now we were in each other's faces. "I ordered you to guard the Pharaoh, do as you're told."
"Last I checked I was the one that freed you from eternal imprisonment. You're not the boss of me and I don't owe you anything. I am only here because I choose to be." I snapped back. "I have always done things my way."
"Um… guys." Yugi said trying to get our attention.
"What!?" we both shouted at him.
He staggered back and looked like he was about to pee himself. I had only just noticed that Lumina's hands were glowing as well as my eyes. Everyone had backed away from us. "I… I agree with Danny." He mumbled. I straightened up with a look of triumph on my face as Lumina scowled at me. "We don't have anything to work with. And I would hate for them to try using Rebecca and the Professor as hostages." Yugi said gloomy. "We have been targeted like that before. Danny is right, they took Joey and Teau last time."
"Is that what you want Pharaoh?" Lumina asked the spirit of the puzzle who nodded. "Fine then… have it your way… Phantom." Lumina said and faded away along with the glow from her card.
I bit my lip to stop myself from continuing to argue with her. "Sorry about her… she has been locked away in the Ghost Zone for the last ten thousand years. I think that ten thousand years alone does things to people." I said rubbing my neck as everyone stared at me.
"She said that you are some kind of professional monster fighter." Rebecca was the first to start asking questions.
"Yeah… my family has a stabilized portal to the Ghost Zone in our basement." I said rubbing the back of my neck. "Or I guess you guys call it the Shadow Realm." Their eyes widened. "It have been called the Ghost Zone at least since the fall of their last king one thousand year ago."
"Why would you want a portal to the Shadow Realm?" Joey asked in horror.
"In order to do research on it. My parents are scientist that research… ghosts." I said looking way from their reactions.
"Why have we not heard about such a scientific breakthrough?" Arthur asked in bewilderment.
"Because no one believes us." I said bitterly. "Everyone just says that my parents are just 'nutty'." I glared at Tristan who backed away a little. "Even when they publish their results, no one believes them. But because of it I am a Professional whenever it comes to combating real monsters." I couldn't help but laugh. "We have a working portal in our basement that throws out monsters every once and a while, and they say we are just crazy. They won't even look at our proof."
"That's not far." Rebecca said angrily. She knew what it was like… her Grandfather was treated the same way.
"I will take Danny, Rebecca, and Arthur to the airport." Yugi's Grandpa said. "You kids be careful, ok." We had walked outside and there was a car in front of the Museum. I was a little worry about the elderly man drive, but it wasn't like anyone else was on the road.
"Goodbye Yugi, see you soon." Rebecca said and kissed Yugi on the cheek before climbing into the car.
"Call us if there are any new developments." I said to them as I climbed in after her.
Arthur said his goodbyes and then we headed off for the airport. I already knew what I was going to have to be prepared for. And it seemed like if I wanted to win, then I would have to learn to play the Duel Monsters card game better.