Yuna's POV
I was visiting the old, well old to ME at least, museum in Domino after two years. Yugi was with me, seeing as grandpa was too tired to come with us. We've been spending a lot of time together ever since I came back. My time has been cut in half for my two families; one day the morning is for grandpa and Yugi, and the evening for Pegasus and Cecillia; the next day is just flipped. But, today Pegasus had to take Cecillia to the weekly check up with the doctors (even if she's not in danger for two years now, her condition was nothing to laugh at. She would have died if the surgery happened any later!) and grandpa wanted to rest, saying his back hurts a bit.
And so, Yugi and I are now walking through the corridors of the ancient Egyptian section when I felt an incredible pull the the right. It was a doorway without doors and the only thing separating us from it's interior were two polls connected by a rope that held the sign : STAFF ONLY! in big, bold, black letters.
I walked closer to it as Yugi stops a few steps in front of me and the pull, the feeling that something down the now visible flight of stairs is calling out for me, TO me! I suddenly saw flashes of events before my eyes. Of lives that I have been dreaming of since I was little ... The people who I know as long as I live, yet have never met.
I wasn't aware that I had sidestepped the polls, nor that I have claimed down the stairs, nor was I taking in the sight of soo well preserved items that one would call them new, nor did I hear Yugi repeating my name or his footsteps that were following me... All I saw in this moment was the main part of the exhibit: two giant stone tablets.
I walked past everything, heading straight to them. I stopped right in front of the two, between them. The one on the right was slightly more damaged, but the left one is the important one! It told a part of the story, not the whole thing. Only a part.
Images continued flashing by and I heard conversations in an ancient language I have learnt thanks to the visions and dreams. Right before my eyes, a part of the legendary duel between history's greatest rivals played out. When it ended, I was surprised to hear a gentle, mysterious voice say:
"Welcome, my Pharaoh." Both Yugi and I turned to see a woman who looks a lot like one of the people who I know from the times when the Pyramids were still young. Back then, this girl was a priestess. Now, I'm not sure. She appears to be Mahad's age, slightly shorter than him, with a nice Egyptian tan and light, blue electrical eyes. She was wearing a simple linen dress with little decorations on the hems. Her hair was passing her shoulders, two braid-like strands of the raven black hair decorated with gold bands. But what really caught my eye was her neck.
She was wearing the Millennium Necklace, known to choose a wearer who can look into the River of Time. This means that this girl was expecting me. And something tells me that she has bad news for me! And did she just call me pharaoh?
I have decided to start there, so she explained how she has been looking for me for quite some time now; how she knows about me and how many people still say I'm the reincarnated Nameless Pharaoh. Why I MUST participate in the tournament that should start in a matter of hours, how I must win etc.
I looked up at the tablet that shows two figures dueling and sigh. This girl, Ishizu, seems to think that I don't know all about the Pharaoh and his High Priest, the Shadow Games, the Millennium Items and the origin of Duel Monsters and so she kept on talking and talking to the point I stopped listening, ... until she mentioned the three Egyptian God Monsters!
No, how the devil does she know about them?! I only know thanks to the dreams!
Then, as she continues to talk (only Yugi was listening), I suddenly looked up to the top of the tablet as I felt something like an electric jolt run through my veins. And there, above the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician, was a picture of the Millennium Puzzle surrounded by Slifer the Sky Dragon, Obelisk the Tormentor and the Whinged Dragon of Ra! If she knows all this, then she knows that only the Pharaoh held all three, ... and that only his reincarnation can hold them again!
"Be cautious, my Pharaoh, for this tournament will be a true battlefield and at one point, the souls themselves will clash! Things will not be soo simple as in DK. Pegasus has been regretting the fact he made those cards, but that's what I took to bring him to the point in time when he met you and when you saved his wife. But you're not alone in this. Not back then, and certainly not now." She looked at the High Priest Seth on the tablet and Seto's sudden strange behaviour made sense!
She already talked to him!
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Yugi and I are now just walking around the city square that's close to the museum, all conversation halted ever since I turned and left Ishizu with the tablets. I know he knows that I'll join the tournament that Ishizu said would be announced tonight, and Iam aaware that there are rumours of what the tournament is going to be like. If they HAPPEN to be true, then only certain people could hold it. Domino City is known to be owned by Seto Kaiba ever since he took over Kaiba Corp. three years ago, and all know that if they want something happening in Domino, they need his OK to it first. My thoughts were broken off by a familiar voice calling out.
"Yuna! Yugi!" We turn to see a beautiful blonde in a purple miniskirt and white top, with knee high boots running up to us. We are lucky that there are too many people here so they didn't hear my name. I don't particularly want to be mobbed.
"Hello Mai. You here for the tournament?" I asked her as soon as she stopped hugging the life out of me and was now busy doing the same to my younger twin. She let him go and turned towards me.
"But ofcourse! You know me: where there are good duels, you know I'll be there! I'm guessing you are here for the announcement as well?" She giggled and corrected herself" Sorry! Of course you are! If you weren't invited, then this wouldn't be a tournament!" She stops at the look of confusion on my and my brother's face. "Right?" She asks uncertainly, but then decides to be blunt. "Yuna you WERE invited to the tournament, right? Everyone got their invitations this morning, so you must, simply MUST have gotten one too, right? I mean, you're the Queen of Games!"
Ijust shake my head. "I wasn't home in the morning, since around eight, so I truly don't know. I'll call you after I get home and check. But do you know anything about this?" I ask, looking around. I spotted Weevil and Rex storming up to us, then they shouted how they'll beat me and Mai and become the King of Games or something before Mako Tsunami got into the mix and the three of them argued while we walked away from them.
"Well, from what I hear, it's someone with a lot of influence and VERY big pockets. Tell me, dear, what are the chances that a certain billionaire friend of yours is the one behind this? I mean, Domino IS pretty much owned by him. Do you know anything about that?"
"Sorry, but I don't. Although, ..." I pause, thinking of the three Egyptian God cards and the powers that they possess, something that would lure Seto into making stupid mistakes" there is a possibility that he is responsible for the tournament. I just don't know anymore! Everything is soo confusing right now!" Mai and Yugi look at me with sympathy.
"Hey, everything is going to be alri-" Mai was cutt off when the people around us became excited and started pointing around at the various screens and on all of them was the same thing. The same person.
Seto Kaiba.
*Greetings, duelists!* Seto had the biggest smirk on his face that I have ever seen as he explained everything about the tournament that will be taking place in Domino for two days, starting tomorrow. Many said that he took the idea of locator cards from Pegasus' star chips and badmouthed the rule of betting on your rarest card. I couldn't believe that he was doing such a thing! 'My Dark Magician! He wants me to bet on my Dark Magician!' I was furious, but something clicked.
Rarest card...
Tournament...
Ishizu ...
Stone tablet ...
Caution ...
Rare Hunters ...
"Shit!" Both Yugiand Mai stop their discussion about the ante rule and focus on me. After all, I rarely ever curse.
"What?" They both ask at the same time, but the sound of a helicopter above us snapped our attention to the air. There, standing by the open door of the copter was Seto in all his glory. In all black, with belts around his biceps and shins and black leather boots, the pure white trench coat stood out quite nicely in the night sky. The DM locket moved around his chest as well as his hair around his face, making him look devastatingly handsome, as he all but glared at the crowd. No, wait. At ME! He is glaring at ME!
Tonight, all of you will get your duel disks delivered to your doorstep. Prepare your deck, rest and come here tomorrow for the official start of the Battle City tournament! The whole city is your battleground and if you make it to the finals and win ... you'll get the honour of getting the title of Duel King or Queen! Remember, anyone who brakes the rules ,,,," He didn't finish his sentence. There was no need to. Everyone knew what would happen.
Seto ... no, KAIBA flew off in his helicopter and Yugi, Mai and I agreed to meet her here tomorrow around 10 am.
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I was sitting at the desk Yugi nowadays uses for studying to make sure that all the cards I wanted are there. I was finishing up, so I let my mind wonder.
'What happened to you, my Card Prince? Why is that darkness waking up? I thought that you have defeated it by now. But, no matter. I'll just help you defeat it once again! No matter what, I'll help you Seto, my dear friend and Card Prince... my most respected rival!'
A/N:Sorry it's soo short, but I thought that this wasn't exactly the most important thing, so I wrote it like this. The long awaited Battle City tournament is starting and will our heroes find new friends along the way? Will there be difficulties? And will Kaiba and Yami (Yuna) realise their feelings? Find out, next time on "Living the Past, Seeing the Future"!
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