The actual chapter one! Yay! So, let me just clear up a few things.

Luna has pitch black hair, like me, but blonde-ish bangs, like Yugi/Yami whoever you wanna call 'em. She has deep purple eyes, and is actually an inch or two taller than me. You guys will see this in my Dawn of the Duel story, but I'll tell ya now anyway. Luna can/could use summoning magic, but not to summon Duel Monsters. Her summons are more like spells. A few of her personal favorites are: Cerberus, Ice Serpent, Rotting Fodder and Heliphant.

I suspected that Yami and Luna knew each other five millennia ago, but never really brought it up cause I didn't know for sure. I didn't notice how similar they looked, but once I did I started to think they were related somehow. Of course, I'm not gonna tell you. You'll have to wait, and if you think you know how they're related (If they even are) tell me in PM, don't review it.

Oh, and when I call Tea Ta, it's pronounced Tay.

Well, enjoy!

I threw on a black crop-top that had the words Paramore It's Only A Spark with a spark-like heart around them, black and white shorts, no not jeans, my black gloves and black and white high-tops. Why the sudden change in attire? Well, Yugi said that they were going to a soccer game, so I thought I'd dress in something a bit more...light? Anywho, I grabbed my bag and went downstairs. Upon walking out the door, I was 'attacked'. "Gah!" I almost fell on my bum, but regained my balance before that happened. "Tara! I'm so glad you came! When did you get here?" "About One p.m New York time. So Two a.m here. Nice to see ya, Ta." She let go of me, smiling. "Joey and Tristan will be so glad to see you! But I'll warn you now, Joey's been practicing his stealth. Still trying to sneak attack you." I thought back to the note. "Yeah...he said that in the letter." She giggled, looking up at a window. "Yugi?!" She yelled out. "I'm coming!" He yelled back.

A few moments later, Yugi came out the door. "Finally!" Tea exclaimed, pulling Yugi's sleeve. "Let's go already!

...

"So, Yugi, who do you think will win the game?" Tea asked, but he didn't know. "I'm not very interested in sports, Tea. You know that..."

He stopped when we saw a mysterious robed fortune teller at the side of the street. "That's so childish." I heard Tea mutter under her breath. "I need a personal item of yours in order to tell your future. Maybe that trinket of yours." The Fortune teller pointed to the puzzle. Yugi was reluctant, but finally handed over the Puzzle. "I see that this Millennium Item now belongs to me!" the fortune teller said, overturning his table and running off. I slashed the table in four with Wolverine's claws, but the teller was gone. I growled, looking at Tea and Yugi. "I'll go after him. You guys stay here." My outfit changed into a red and yellow suit with a little thunderbolt on my chest. "Back in a flash." I said, before speeding away. Great...I absorbed Wally's sense of humor too.

I caught a glimpse of a robe and went to follow it, only to find out it was a trash bag. A trash bag that was near a wall. I ran smack into the wall, bouncing back a foot or so. "Ow..." I said, rubbing my head. "So not Aster." I muttered, turning around when I heard footsteps. "Tara?" Yugi asked, helping me up. "So uh...he's not here..." "I can see that. What happened?" "I thought I saw him, but it turned out to be a trash bag. How'd you get so far? Unlike me, you don't have heightened smell." "I followed the arrows." He pointed back to a wall that had a piece of paper with an arrow on it. I laughed nervously. "Must of been going so fast I didn't even see 'em. That might things a bit easier."

We followed the arrows to an old warehouse, and went inside. "I think I can sense the spirit..." A strange voice laughed, and a spotlight revealed the Millennium Puzzle fastened to the wall by an eye bolt. "If you want your Puzzle back, you'll have to duel for it!" More lights came on, and we saw a dueling arena in the middle of the warehouse. "Who are you and what do you want with the Millennium Puzzle?" "I want the Puzzle's power, but according to the ancient rules, I have to win it in a duel." But he wouldn't tell us who he was, only that he was familiar with the Millennium Items. I saw behind the fortuneteller another person, holding a golden rod. I remembered seeing it in my book, it was called the Millennium Rod, and could take control of minds.

Yugi didn't want to duel—it was already his Puzzle! But he had no choice but to accept the challenge. He tried to connect with the spirit of the Puzzle, but the bond was weak. Little Yugi would have to duel alone. "But I've never fought a duel without you," Yugi protested (forgetting that just a little while ago, he dueled Rebecca without the spirit's help). I heard a small voice, Yami's voice, telling Yugi to trust in himself and he'd do fine. Vowing to believe in the heart of the cards, Yugi ascended the dueling platform.

Luna, if I can get close enough to the puzzle, do you think you can get inside?

Possibly. How would that help?

I don't know! But you wanted to talk to Yami and are not needed here so...

Okay. Just get me close. I very casually unclipped the necklace, using my telekinesis to levitate it over to the puzzle. I saw a small light and guessed our plan worked. Bringing the necklace back over to me, I looked up at the duel.

Yugi had a card face-down in defense, while our mystery duelist had Mechanical Chaser and Bugroth to the field. Yugi noticed that the mystery duelist was playing machine monsters, and there was only one player we knew who had a deck full of machine cards. "Show yourself, Bandit Keith!" he said, and the mystery duelist pulled back the cowl of his robe, revealing that he was indeed Bandit Keith! But why would Bandit Keith disguise himself and try to steal the Millennium Puzzle? The last time we saw Keith was at Duelist Kingdom, when Pegasus ejected him from the island after his duel with Joey. Yugi asked what happened to him, but Keith said he wasn't Keith—Bandit Keith was just a mind-slave!

"Are you guys getting any of this? Cause I for one am totally lost."

He explained that he fished Bandit Keith out of the sea, and turned him into a puppet to do his bidding. For a moment, the man's control of Keith sliped, and he called out for help. But then Keith's eyes went blank again, and he told Yugi to continue the duel. Then, he summoned Machine King in attack mode, which increased its attack by 100 points for every machine monster on the field, raising its attack to 2500 points. It destroyed Yugi's defense monster, Silver Fang.

Yugi played another monster in defense. Bandit Keith summoned another machine monster, Megasonic Eye, pumping Machine King up to 2600 points. It destroyed Yugi's Giant Soldier of Stone. Yugi was determined to continue fighting. He looked down at me, and I gave him a big smile and two thumbs up. He smiled back and continued dueling. "Stop stalling!" And for a moment I saw the man controlling him, sitting in a throne-like chair, dressed in the same robes as Keith. Yugi played Curse of Dragon and Gaia the Fierce Knight, using Polymerization to fuse them into Gaia the Dragon Champion. Gaia the Dragon Champion destroyed Mechanical Chaser, taking 750 life points from Keith, as well as reducing Machine King's attack by 100 points.

Keith switched his weaker monsters to defense mode, and played Machine Conversion Factory to increase the attack and defense of all of his machine cards by 300 points. The Machine King's attack was up to 2800, and it destroyed Gaia the Dragon Champion. "Why don't you just give up and hand over your Puzzle?" The man controlling Keith asked. Yugi played Makiu the Magical Mist, which rusted the machine monsters, lowering their attack and defense points. Then he played Summoned Skull, whose attack was increased to 3250 by... something, and destroyed the Machine King.

Keith played Graceful Charity, allowing him to draw three cards from his deck—but he was actually pulling cards from his sleeve. He played the Zera Ritual magic card, allowing him to sacrifice his two remaining monsters on the field to summon the mighty Zera the Mant! Zera's attack was 2800 points, and it destroyed Summoned Skull, whose attack was back down to its normal 2500 points. Keith yelled at Yugi to make his move, and Yugi played a card in defense. Keith played Seiyaryu, a monster with 2500 attack points, in attack mode. Then, pulling another card from his sleeve, he played a magic/trap card face down, next he played the magic card Stop Defense to force Yugi's Koumori Dragon into attack mode. He used Zera to destroy the Koumori Dragon, reducing Yugi's life points to 400, and telling Yugi that the end was near. "And soon I will be the keeper of that Millennium Puzzle!" The mind controller gloated.

Yugi looked down at his Puzzle, bolted to the side of the dueling platform, and vowed never to let that freak get his hands on it! "This duel's not over." He said, and drew his next card. He played another monster in defense, and Keith attacked it with Seiyaryu, destroying the Mystical Elf. Then Keith placed two more cards in his magic/trap zone, and switched Zera to defense mode, telling Yugi his move would become clear soon.

Yugi drew and played a magic/trap card face down, and Dark Magician in defense mode, with Magical Hats to hide him. But Keith played his trap card, Magic Jammer, allowing him to negate Magical Hats by discarding a card from his hand. The Dark Magician was exposed! Then Keith turned over another card, the magic card Curse of Fiend, which switched all monsters on the field from attack to defense, or vice versa. Since he'd switched Zera to defense, it went into attack mode, and Yugi's Dark Magician was forced into attack mode as well. Then Zera attacked Dark Magician.

Yugi played his trap card, Mirror Force, to block Zera's attack, but Keith countered with his own trap card, Solemn Judgment, to destroy Mirror Force and negate its effect. He paid half of his life points to use it, but Zera was saved and the Dark Magician was destroyed—and Yugi had only 100 life points left! Yugi drew, and played a magic card face down, and a monster in defense mode, saying, "All right, let's see what you've got." Mind Slave Keith said, "It's time to end this duel, and claim the power that is mine!" Keith pulled another card from his sleeve, not even being particularly secretive about it, and played Tribute to the Doomed, a magic card that allowed him to destroy any monster on the field by discarding a card from his hand. "That's one of the rarest cards there is!" I exclaimed, but Yugi was ready for it with his trap card, the Living Arrow, which took Keith's magic and sent it back at him. Zera was destroyed.

Keith came back to himself, wondering what was going on and why he was wearing that robe?! "Now that Zera is gone, it's time for me to win this duel and take back my Millennium Puzzle!" Keith, however, didn't know what Yugi was talking about. Keith struggled as the mystery man attempted to regain control over him. The man took control briefly, and Keith rushed over to the Puzzle, saying that if he couldn't have it, no one could! He smashed the Puzzle against the wall, scattering it into its pieces. Yugi cried out in horror. Still struggling against the control, Keith thrashed around. Suddenly, Bakura swung down out of the rafters on a rope, knocking Keith over. Keith fell off the dueling ring.

"Didn't the same thing happen in Pirates of the Caribbean 3?"

Yugi jumped down from the dueling platform, asking Bakura what he was doing there. "Téa told me what happened." And picked up the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle, saying at least it wasn't stolen. Yugi sadly took the pieces in his hands, hoping he could put it together again. It took him forever the first time, but since he had done it once already, he hoped that time would be easier. Bakura gave the missing piece back to Yugi, then climbed down from the dueling ring, falling on his butt and generally acting like a doofus, and walked away "I'll be along as soon as I unhook the chain." Which was still bolted to the wall with the top part of the Puzzle.

Crazed, Keith picked up a pipe and started waving it around, threatening the presence he thought he saw. We called out to him to stop, but Keith continued to fight the air, eventually hitting the controls of some machinery, causing sparks to fly and live wires to split, showering sparks on cans of gasoline. Keith's rampage had started a fire inside the warehouse! Desperately, Yugi pulled on the chain, trying to get his Puzzle free so we could get out, but it was too strong, and the fire was spreading fast. The windows and doors were covered in flames—how will we be able to get out?

I switched costumed again, this time to a red and orange armor-like one. I held my hands out, trying to control the fire. "Oi, hurry up!" I then heard a familiar voice at the door."Tristan, that you?!" "Yeah, it's me! Is Yugi with you?" "Yeah, we're togetha, but I can't control this fire for long. Get us out of here, mate!" "Okay, we'll just bust down the-did you call me 'mate'?" "It's an Aussie thing. I'll explain lata. If there is a lata." I heard someone try to kick down the door, most likely Joey and Tristan.

Yugi was still trying to put the Puzzle back together. The pounding on the door got louder, I got hotter and weaker, and Yugi fit a few more pieces of the Puzzle into place, as burning timbers fell around us. Finally, Joey and Tristan broke in, only to have Keith rush past them! "Did we just save Bandit Keith?" Joey asked. Yugi put the last piece of the Puzzle into place, yelling "Got it!", just as he began to collapse from the heat. I groaned, feeling weak and dizzy. How does John do this?! They tried to pull Yugi away, but he clung to the Puzzle, refusing to leave without it. Tristan went to grab Yugi's deck from the dueling station, while Joey tried to get the Puzzle free, and I tried to make sure we didn't get turned into toast. Burnt toast.

"I know, I know, I use the joke way to much. But it fits, y'know?"

Joey was having no luck with the Puzzle. Why did Yugi have to put it on such a thick chain!? Tristan took his turn pulling on the chain, but it wouldn't budge, and neither would Yugi. "We'll just have to think of some way to get it free!" Joey and Tristan grabbed lengths of pipe and try to break the chain, but it was too strong. Then Joey got the idea of putting the pipe through the hole of the eye bolt and using it as a lever to pull the bolt out of the wall! "Great! Now do it, or we're all barbied!" "What?" "BARBECUED YOU MORONS!" I yelled, the Aussie accent dropping for a moment. The boys pulled their hardest, and finally the bolt popped out.

Tea's POV

The fire department had arrived and was pouring water on the fire. I implored them to hurry—"My fiends are in there!" At last, Joey and Tristan, carrying Yugi, ran out of the burning building. They're safe! "Wait, where's Tara?" Joey tried to get back in, but the firefighters wouldn't let him. Just then, the warehouse collapsed! "Tara!" We yelled, when all of a sudden, there was a giant flash of light. When the light died down, Tara was standing in the rubble, with silver skin. She went to take a step, but fell forward. Joey, finally getting past everyone, caught her right before she hit the ground.

In the hospital, Yugi was sitting in his hospital bed, with us around him. He's safe, and so is the Millennium Puzzle. Gratefully, he thanked us. "You're the greatest friends a guy could ever had!" "That's what buddies are for." Joey said, glancing down at Tara, who was still unconscious. The doctors said that she didn't faint because of smoke inhalation, but from exhaustion. Whatever she did, it drained a lot of her energy. "I can't help but wonder what happened." Tristan said, before making fun of Joey's "brilliance" and pretty soon the two were at each other's throats, until Yugi threatened not to share his hospital food if they didn't knock it off. Sheepishly, they settled down. "The important thing is that we're all safe and together." Yugi said.

Extra

The boys pulled their hardest, and finally the bolt popped out. "Let's get outta here!" Joey yelled, as he and Tristan grabbed Yugi. They ran out, and I stayed behind them, making sure the fire didn't get out of control before they got out. They're safe! I heard Tea think, and sighed in relief, which was short lived. The building started to creak and cave in. Panicking, I switched costumes one last time, my skin turning metal. The warehouse collapsed and I tried to hold it up, but even with Piotr's strength, it was too much! Only one other option... I dug deep into my mind, searching the little boxes 'till I found the psyche I needed. Pulling it out, I took a deep breath. I hope no one's close by... Taking another deep breath, I focused, releasing a giant blast of energy. I opened my eyes, my vision hazy. I went to take a step, but fell forward, blacking out.

Okie dokie. How'd you like that? I was gonna do the whole thing in my POV, but decided against it cause I wanted not only the hospital scene, but the suspense. I also didn't want you to wonder what happened, so I added the extra.

Powers used: Wolverine, Kid Flash/Flash, Pyro, Colossus, Nitro,

Did I get the Aussie accent right? I tried my best, but I suck at accents. Southern is the best one I can do, German in second. I hope it wasn't too bad.

Please review and I'll see ya'll later!