And here is the revised version of Chapter 2 :) anyway off to do more revisions on the rest of the volume!
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Chapter 2

The New Student

"Yugi are you ready to go?" Atem asked sitting on the sofa.

"Yup," Yugi replied standing next to his grandfather in the living room. "Grandpa, can I have my bag ba-"

"No!" Grandpa answered interrupting Yugi while searching through his bag. "I'm making sure you don't have any of the other MillenniumItems to give out to your friends."

Yugi backed away from his insane grandfather and sighed in annoyance. He turned to Atem who was looking around the room.

"I like the new furniture Solomon." Atem complimented towards Grandpa Solomon.

"Well I wouldn't have had to replace the furniture, if it wasn't for a bunch of hooligans trying to steal the god cards." Grandpa stated still rambling through the poor bag. "They decided to use cherry bombs and firecrackers in the house as a distraction."

"What happened?"

"Well let's just say Joey and Tristan got a hold of them and you can write out what happened to them. Oh and please call me 'Grandpa' I have come to liking it very much with Yugi's friends always over."

"Hey, what's wrong with me just saying it?" Yugi asked.

"It's just that more people say it and I just prefer the name now compare to the last few years that's all." Grandpa answered innocently giving Yugi back his bag.

"Thank you." Yugi said giving Grandpa a dirty look.

"So are you going to see everyone; I bet they will be very excited to see you." Grandpa stated as Atem rose from the sofa.

"Hopefully," the Pharaoh said and turned to Yugi. "I will meet you on the school roof and don't be late." With that Atem walked out the side door.

"YUGI, IF YOU DON'T GET OUT HERE WE WILL BE LATE!" Someone yelled from outside.

"Téa must be waiting for you. Have a good day at school." Grandpa said.

Yugi nodded then headed to the shop exit. "Yup see you later."

Yugi went outside and saw a girl about his height with brown hair at shoulder length standing beside the Kame Game shop wall.

"Hey Téa," Yugi called to her. "I have a surprise on the roof before class today."

"Well we won't be able to get to the roof, if we don't hurry." Téa said looking at her watch.

"Why?"

"Well it's 8:40"

"Yeah I guess that explains a lot, let's get going then." Yugi answered.

The two of them ran down the street towards the school. About half way there Téa asked, "Anything about the move across the street?"

"Nope, but I saw a girl and her mother moving boxes in." He answered in between breaths. He looked towards her and noticed that Téa was looking at him funny.

"When did you get the Millennium Puzzle back?"

"That will be explained on the roof as soon as we get Joey and Tristan."

They arrived at the school about two minutes later. They put their things in their lockers, placed on their school shoes and headed to their homeroom. They arrived at the homeroom to see several students already in, but the most obvious were the two boys in the far corner of the classroom arm wrestling. Both wore the Domino High male uniform, which consists of a dark blue jacket with dark blue pants and blue and white shoes. One had blond, shaggy hair wearing a white turtleneck shirt under the uniform. The other student had short hair that points to a point with light brown underneath with dark brown on top and wore a beige dress shirt under his uniform.

"Joey, Tristan, can you come with us?" Yugi asked the blond haired Joey and the brown haired Tristan.

"Sure." Joey said winning the match.

The two of the hurried over and the four of them quietly left the loud room.

"Where did you get the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi?" Tristan asked as Joey opened the stair door that led to the roof.

"That will be explained." Yugi answered.

They headed up the stairs in a hurry with Joey in the lead. At the top, Joey opened the roof door and yelled, "So, what's up?"

"Nothing really right now," Atem answered from the fence as soon as the door to the stairwell was closed with everyone on the roof, his white hoody was glowing in the sunlight making his dark blue jeans and black shoes even more darker.

"Huh?" Joey and Tristan questioned looking towards voice and dropped their jaws at the sight. Téa ran over to Atem and gave him a huge hug with a few tears. "I knew you would come back."

"Fuck yes, he's back and he has a body – Uh wait you have your own body?!" Joey stated freaking out.

"Dude, how do you have your own body?" Tristan asked walking over to him. "Where did you find the Millennium Puzzle?"

Téa let go her lost friend and stepped back letting him tell his tale, along with the help of Yugi.

"And I have a body because of the cartouché Tea gave me. When I have it on I have a body, but without it on I'm just a spirit." He replied about his body and showed them.

"Wow! That is amazing and we can still see you. Who else can see you?" Joey asked as Tristan tried to touch Atem then whipped his hand back after going through the guy's shoulder.

"Well there is the Kaiba brothers, Bakura, and Grandpa." He answered placing the cartouche.

"So the world's in trouble again and that's why you came back." Téa stated in disappointment.

"Yes, but he came to see us too." Yugi told her trying to cheer her up, but she ignored him.

Atem jumped in to help, "He's right." Téa looked up at him. "I wasn't asked to come back here at all. If anything I suppose to be running around the world looking for an item that the dead don't know about. I came back to see you guys again. It is great and all to be well dead in the underworld, but being in the twenty first century for so long it is strange to not live a life here without you."

"So why does Yugi have the puzzle?" Tristan asked.

"For some reason I was asked to give it back to Yugi before sunrise, but I wasn't told why."

"Oh the priests aren't telling their king something." Joey said like it was a diss.

"Dude seriously, what the fuck?" Tristan asked smacking the back of Joey's head.

"We should get going, class starts in two minutes." Téa said holding an ear of the two boys that started to fight. Atem nodded and took off his cartouche.

"Already then, let's go." Yugi announced.

They headed back down the stairs and walked down the hallway. They ran into homeroom with the bell at their heels.

"Okay everyone in your seats; I have a treat for you." The homeroom teacher announced.

Yugi and the group sat in their seats by the window as they were told and Atem walked to the window to lean against it. The teacher took attendance and completed it by calling out student names. Once completed, he tossed the folder on the desk. He stood up and walked to the front of his desk.

"Okay my lovely students; you have a new student today."

This made the students excited and started to ask each other many questions.

"So do you think it's a guy or a girl?" Tristan asked with greed in his eyes.

"I just hope they aren't out to get us?" Téa responded.

"Yeah no kidding, I'm tired of them trying to complete their random tasks of hell." Yugi agreed.

"Oh, but this could be a good chance to get Yugi or Tristan a girlfriend." Joey implied.

Atem shushed them as the student walked into the room.

The student was female with her dress shirt untied. The student had brown hair with green eyes, stood about five foot and was really cute, but what struck him and his friends was the item around her neck.

"Yugi, that's a Millennium Item." Atem announced. The student looked at Atem with alarm, then ignored him and went back to observing the class.

"Yugi, she's perfect for you." Joey whispered.

"How do you figure?"

"She can wear heels and still be shorter then you, she is hot, and she has a Millennium Item."

"She may be evil for all we know." Tristan whispered as well.

"Hey don't take her out of the picture there are many people who had Millennium Items and were still good guys."

"Thanks for the moral support." Yugi said knowing only one item holder that didn't try to kill him out of six.

"Okay, so introduce yourself and what you would like to be when you are out of high school." The teacher explained interrupting his thoughts. The student went to the board and wrote her name in kanji and in English, Regan Heartin.

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Regan wrote her name on the board in the country's language then in her own not really knowing which language would be correct.

'Who is that guy by the window? Why do I know kanji?' She asked herself in confusion.

"My name is Regan Heartin, and I'll be sixteen tomorrow. I moved here from Ontario, Canada and what I would like to be when I leave high school is someone in the media district."

"Oh the media district, that could be media news or dancing or singing." The teacher told her as she felt her heart tingle when he said singing. "Singing is the one that you like is it. Oh don't worry I can't read minds, but I can read expressions. My name is Mr. Croc or Professor Croc your homeroom teacher."

"Nice to meet you and singing I suppose is my pride and joy." Regan responded, "Though I am surprised that I am still up here."

"May I see your music device?" Mr. Croc asked her.

She nodded still aware of the boy over by the window trying to read her and handed the teacher her iPhone. Mr. Croc looked through the list of songs,

"Can you sing any of these songs?"

"I can sing most of them, sir."

"Well since I'm a teacher that gets my students ready for the real world, how about you sing in front of the class to show that you belong in the world of reality." He stated still shuffling among the hundreds of tunes. "Téa Gardner, the student by the window with brown hair, blues eyes, and big chest; she wants to be a dancer. She proved it by dancing to a song that she hardly knew; it was very impressive."

"Thank you Mr. Croc." The girl from outside her house before answered.

"I'll place the chosen song on my speakers and you can prove that you belong in this world of reality."

'Well, this could go two ways, down to the dumps or having a bit of dignity.' She thought to herself as Mr. Croc threw something at her. She caught it in surprise with her left hand and recognized it as a microphone.

"Nice reflexes, Lefty are you?"

"No ambidextrous." She answered calmly through her teeth. She watched him as he place the device on the speakers and heard the rhythm come on.

Until Death Do Us Apart.

The monsters that chase me though I know they are from within

She almost broke, but she continued. She didn't know why, but she felt like it was right if all the other students had to go through the hell she was going through. Especially if they were shy like her.

I still go on my own

Meeting the check point I realize my flaw

Staying away from others is not the way

For when you came I realized that

But why do I still avoid you

She felt more at ease as she sang and just ignored everyone in the room and felt the rhythm of the beat match her heart beat.

What can we find?

What can we see?

Your friends are so true, with this bond we share

We will prevail

Until death do us apart

She was in her own little world now slightly dancing to the music.

The enemies that come, they try to knock me down

But fighting with an immortal being, brings me down hard

With tears in my eyes, I wondered how this came to be

For you stood between the enemy and me

You picked me up, set me to my feet

And believed

What can we find?

What can we see?

Your friends are so true, with this bond we share

We will prevail

Until death do us apart

You stand at the foot of my grave

I stand and watch, as you fall to your knees

I wondered why you cared, if i saved your life

Most wouldn't think twice, but you stood there

Begging me to come back

What can we find?

What can we see?

Your friends are so true, with this bond we share

We will prevail...

I walked towards you and you saw

That the enemy was no more

For I was there, to tell the world

That love will go on forever

Even after death

She let the last word ring out and then she took a breath. Suddenly, the class appeared and started to applaud.

Mr. Croc took off the iPhone and gave it back to her. "Well it looks like you pass the reality check with the entire school."

"What do you mean?" Regan asked not having a clue about what he was talking about, than it dawned on her when she heard the noise in the hall. "You mean this mic is-"

"Yup this is also the morning announcement mic, congratulations."

There were two feelings going through her head: pride and anger. She wasn't sure if she wanted to thank the professor for enlightening her, or strangle the trickster. So, she just kept her mouth close before something came out that he might not like.

"Heh, I believe the only seat left in this homeroom is the one between Joey and Tristan, and next to Yugi."

A blond haired and a brown haired guy stood up while a spiky haired boy that looked similar to the stranger by the window slowly rose from his seat.

"The blond that has too much hair is Joey Wheeler. The guy who looks like a unicorn is Tristan Taylor and the porcupine haired boy is the King of Games, Yugi Muto."

She nodded at the teacher then walked to her assigned seat. Slowly, she looked at the ghost by the window. He seemed really ancient and had a weird vibe.

'Stop that; you shouldn't be reading other people's energies, it's rude.' Regan told herself as she looked away and sat in her seat.

"Okay, I will let you have the rest of the time to yourselves." Mr. Croc told the class as he sat down and started to read the newspaper.

The class took that opportunity to chit chat about whatever they were talking about before homeroom started.

"Hi." Regan said to her fellow desk mates.

"Hey, do you play duel monsters?" Joey asked going past the formalities. She nodded her head.

"Alright, after school let's meet outside of the front gates and have a duel with Yugi's duel disk, if you don't have one."

"Thanks for asking," Yugi sighed, then he shrugged smiling. "I can't wait to see your duel."

'He's different,' she thought to herself as she caught a glimpse of the guy by the window glaring. She looked around the classroom to see if there were any other students eavesdropping. There was none so she went ahead with her question, "Who is the guy at the window? I know that you four know because he was talking to you earlier." She lifted her puzzle and continued, "And second what does this item mean to you?"

"That item is connected to the other ancient items that we were trying to locate." Téa answered after a glance at the other three humans.

"My puzzle has a family? Why were you trying to locate my item?"

"That was a puzzle before it was given to you?" Yugi asked in interest.

"Yeah, it's really enhanced my ability since this morning."

"You're ability?" The guy from the window finally spoke with great importance.

'Oops,' Was the only thing she could think of. Regan didn't like to talk about it because she really didn't understand it one hundred percent herself.

"It's nothing that special. If I told you, you probably wouldn't understand it."

"Oh trust me if it is weird and out of the reach of reality, we have probably seen or at least heard about it." Téa reassured.

"Well I warned you, I can read and feel people's aura, and I have studied about the trinity."

Yugi turned his head and looked at the guy behind him in which nodded back.

"Hey, that's what you talked about on the roof." Tristan stated like a light bulb just went off. Yugi nodded at Tristan.

"Is there something wrong?" She asked wondering if she should start running.

Window ghost smiled a bit and came to sit in an empty seat behind him "I'm Atem and your puzzle seems to be similar to the one that Yugi carries around his neck."

Yugi lifted his golden puzzle slightly then let it go. "It became a puzzle to keep an evil creature locked inside for it that threatened to destroy the world. To keep the puzzle in balance another spirit was placed inside. So when I completed five thousand years later, both were released."

Regan looked between the two men in front of her. "So, I'm guessing that the spirit that was sealed was you, Atem. But now there isn't any connection between you and the item anymore, why?"

Atem turned his head towards the window as the sun lit the area of the five desks. "Yes, I was the one in the puzzle." He answered in thought, "I have no reason to have a connection to the Millennium Puzzle now that the enemy is gone and hopefully for eternity."

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Yugi thought about the discussion at hand. When he did complete the item both sides of the puzzle were released, this changed his life for the better. He became a different person because of the Millennium Puzzle.

"What happened to the enemy?" Regan asked breaking his train of thought.

"Well that's easy we defeated that creature." Joey answered proudly.

Atem turned back to the rest of the group and asked, "When you put together the item, did you notice anything strange, about it?"

"If you call a blinding light strange, then yeah I would say The River's Puzzle did something strange." Regan answered.

"Hey Bakura, can we ask you something?" Tristan called to the other side of the room.

A long white haired kid came over to the group from several rows over. "Hey when did you come back?" Bakura asked Atem with a British accent in surprise.

"I came back this morning."

"Well nice to see you again, so what did you want to ask me about; though I probably know what this is going to lead to."

"Well you are the expert on evil beings controlling bodies, so can you tell us anything that allows you to tell, if it's there?" Tristan asked.

"Well from my experiences, there would be memory blanks every so often; also they might ask you, if they are nice enough, for you to help them complete a goal of some sort. You should know right away, if there is something demonic about your item." Bakura stated in thought glaring at something invisible and then he lightened up. "Does that help?"

"Yeah it does quite a bit, Regan when did you put The River's Puzzle together?" Yugi asked. 'Well I'm not wearing the item and even I can tell that there isn't anything bad about it, but still.'

"I built it on the way to school in my mother's vehicle." Regan answered observing the item.

"You know what, let's go to my house, Grandpa was an archaeologist so let see if he has any information about the eighth Millennium Item."

"That's a good idea, but after the duel between Joey and Regan, I'm interested on the outcome." Atem stated just as the bell started to ring.

"Okay everyone I'll see you all after afternoon classes" Mr. Croc dismissed as everyone headed out of the classroom.