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*****Yami*****
'Oh no!' Yami thought, 'This is even stranger than before!'
He had woken up in another strange place! It was a room filled with staircases and doors in all sorts of directions and angles that it didn't seem possible. It was like one huge stone maze that appeared impossible to solve!
"Well, I might as well see where all of these doors lead," Yami said to himself. He sighed and looked up at a door that was on the ceiling. "Well, the ones I can get to."
*****Yugi*****
'Man that sure was a strange weekend,' Yugi thought to himself as he sat in the class he had right before lunch. It was Monday again and Yugi had already finished his work so he just sat daydreaming until the bell rang.
Everyone had been treating him strangely all weekend. His friends and Grandpa kept asking him if he was feeling alright. He wondered why. They kept explaining things to him that he already knew, like he was some sort of child or something like that. It made him slightly upset. He had finally asked Joey what the deal was. Joey said that it was because he was acting so weird on Friday. Yugi couldn't really remember Friday, so he figured that they were right and he must not have felt good. But he assured them that he was fine now. Grandpa said he looked better anyway.
The bell finally did ring and he followed the crowd of students to the cafeteria, over to where his friends were already sitting.
"Hey Yugi!" Tristan said, "Did ya hear?"
"Hear what?" Yugi asked as he sat down.
"There's a new student in school!" Tea said, "He's from England!"
"Really?" Yugi was surprised that a new student would come this late in the school year. "Have any of you met him yet?"
"Mo," Joey answered, through chewing his food, "Dust heards rumors."
"Joey, can't you swallow before you talk!" Tea complained, "It's disgusting!"
"What?" Joey said swallowing. He looked at his friends while Tea frowned and Tristan and Yugi each raised an eyebrow.
"Hey Joey," Yugi said, breaking the silence, "Wanna duel?"
"Sure." It was their common custom to play Duel Monsters during lunch.
None of them noticed the white haired boy who walked by. "Hmm," the boy said, looking down at a strange golden object that hung from his neck by a leather strap. The object was a ring with a triangle in the center of it and seven diamond-shaped pointers hanging from the bottom of it, one of which was pointing strait at Yugi. Or more precisely, at the Puzzle that hung from around his neck!
"That's strange," the boy said, looking at Yugi for a moment, then turned and walked on, tucking the object under his shirt.
Yugi stopped playing the game for a minute, frowned and looked around.
"What's up Yug?" Joey asked.
"I don't know," Yugi answered, "I...well I just felt strange there for a second, like someone was watching me." A chill ran down his spine to emphasize his feeling.
The other three looked at him, and then looked around too. Not seeing anyone looking at their friend, they turned back to him.
"You sure?" Tristan asked.
Yugi frowned, but then shook his head a little and smiled. "Oh well," he said, "Let's get back to the game!"
"Okay!" Joey agreed, instantly forgetting that strange moment.
'I wonder what that was all about,' Yugi thought.
*****Yami*****
A chill ran down Yami's spine. Something or someone not quite right was near. He could feel it!
He stood up from where he had sat and leaned against the wall to rest for a little. He was back in the room he had started in, after almost two days of searching through this place. Or at least, trying to.
Most of the doors in this place were locked, and the ones that were open, had many traps in them. Yami had almost been killed more times than he could care to count! So he had returned to the main room, the one with the hieroglyphics all over the walls. (Just incase you were wondering, this is what it said: Oh spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, you are now part of another. The Chosen One has awakened you after a millennia has passed. As long as this One has the Millennium Puzzle, the two of you will share a bond. Take care of the little one and soon all of your questions shall be answered.)
Yami stood and looked up, where the magical window, as he called it, appeared on the ceiling and allowed him to see what Yugi saw in his world. He seemed to be in that place called "lunch" and nothing seemed to be wrong. But Yami could sense that Yugi still seemed a little nervous. (Yami could feel Yugi's emotions. He figured it was a part of this "Bond" the hieroglyphics talked about, as well as the magic window.)
Yugi had gone back to playing Duel Monsters, but Yami still had a strange feeling that something or someone was paying very close attention to him.
*****Yugi*****
"Man, Mondays sure go by slow," Joey complained as the group of friends walked into class.
"Come on Joey," Tristan said, "Cheer up! It's last hour!"
They sat in their seats as the bell rang and the teacher called them to attention. "Class," she said, "As I'm sure many of you have heard by now, we have a new student!" She motioned towards the door and a boy with white hair and deep brown eyes walked in, looking slightly embarrassed at being in front of all the students. "Introduce yourself!" the teacher said happily.
"Well, um," the boy started in a British accent, "My name is Ryou Bakura and I just moved here from England with my dad."
"Well thank you Ryou!" the teacher said, "You may have a seat next to... Joey!" She pointed to the empty seat.
"Thank you," Ryou said, bowing slightly. Then he took his seat.
The teacher went on with the lesson, but Yugi and the gang didn't really pay attention.
"Hi!" Joey said, "I'm Joey!"
"Nice to meet you," Bakura said politely, "I'm Ryou Bakura, but you can just call me Bakura."
"Okay Bakura!" Joey said, "Here, let me introduce you to my friends. This here is Tristan!" Joey pointed to the seat behind him, "Yugi!" he pointed to the seat next to him, "and Tea!" and he pointed to the seat next to Yugi.
They all greeted Bakura and him back to them. They all smiled, but then got back to the lesson. The teacher had stopped teaching to stare at them until they stopped talking. They got out papers and copied down notes until the bell rang, signaling the end of the day.
It's nice to have met you all!" Bakura said as he walked out of the school.
"Bye!" they shouted after him.
"What are you guys doing today?" Yugi asked as he finally got his locker open and started to pack things into his book bag.
"Nothing," Joey said. He was leaning up against the lockers, waiting for his friends.
"Well, I'm, um, busy," Tea said.
"Gotta help my dad clean out the garage," Tristan said, "He said that if I did, he'd pay me for it, and I'd finally get to buy that motorcycle I've been savin' up for!"
"That's great Trist!" Joey said.
"Wanna go to the arcade?" Yugi asked Joey.
"Yeah!" Joey said.
"Sure your up to it Yugi?" Tristan asked, smiling.
"Of course I am!" Yugi said, not catching on to why Tea and Joey were smiling at him too.
They all said goodbye and headed off their different ways.
***
After a couple hours at the arcade Joey suggested that they go eat at this new burger joint that had been opened near-bye. Yugi and Joey talked about Duel Monsters, like they usually did, while they sat in the booth, eating their burgers, when who else should appear but...
"Tea?" Yugi asked, "What are you doing here? Do you work here?"
By the uniform she was wearing, they could tell that she did work there, and by look on Tea's face, Yugi could tell that she wasn't too happy that they were there. And he was quickly confirmed when Tea splattered ketchup on them.
"What are you guys doing here!?" she demanded in a low voice, "You're not supposed to be here!"
"Whoa, sorry Tea!" Joey said, "We didn't know!"
"If they find out that I'm not old enough to work here I'll get fired!" she said.
"Don't worry Tea," Yugi said, "We won't tell."
"You guys won't?"
"No," Joey agreed.
Tea looked relieved. "Oh thank you guys! Oh and sorry about the ketchup!"
"That's alright," Yugi said. He smiled at her.
"Um Tea?" Joey said smiling, "Can I have some more ketchup?"
"Oh sure!" Tea looked at the bottle in her hand. "Um, this one seems to be empty." She smiled. "I'll just go get some more."
After a few minutes longer than it should have taken, Yugi started to get worried about her.
"Does it really take that long to get more ketchup?" Joey asked. He was also worried.
"I'm going to go check on her," Yugi said.
Joey nodded and Yugi snuck through the door that he had seen Tea go through. He found the Tea was being cornered by a thief that had snuck into the back storage room!
"Leave her alone!" Yugi shouted, with more courage then he felt.
"YUGI!!!" Tea shouted, fear in her voice.
"Stay outta this kid!" the man shouted. He picked Yugi up and threw him against the wall, hard! Yugi hit his head and was knocked unconscious.
*****Yami*****
'Yugi's hurt!' Yami realized. He became angry! He had become quite attached to the boy whose body they shared, even though Yugi was still unaware of it. And he didn't want any harm to come to him!
He was suddenly out of the maze room and in control of Yugi's body. And, an idea had just popped into his head.
"Why don't we play a game?" he said, smiling at the surprise on the man's face.
"I thought you were knocked out!" he said. He looked at the teen's smiling face and smiled back. "What kind of game?"
"It's not too hard to understand. I just shuffle this deck of Duel Monsters Cards," Yami said, pulling out Yugi's deck, "and we both pick a card and whoever's monster has the highest ATK Points wins."
"Seems easy enough," the man sneered, "I'll go first."
He pulled a card off of the top of the stack and it was the Curse of Dragon.
"Ha! This is a strong monster!" the man said, admiring its 2000 ATK Points. Not many monsters were stronger than it!
Yami pulled out one of them. "Dark Magician. You lose. So OPEN YOUR MIND!!"
The force was too much for the poor punk, so he fell to the ground unconscious.
"Yugi!?" Tea said.
"Tea, I..." 'Yugi's waking up!' Yami thought, 'Time to let him take over.' Yami receded from Yugi's body, and since Yugi wasn't fully awake up yet, he collapsed.
(AN-Okay, I haven't seen that flashback episode in a while so if anyone knows of any mistakes in this part, please point them out to me so I can fix it.)
*****Yugi*****
"Yug, man. You're really starting to scare me now!" Joey said.
"Are you sure you're not sick?" Tristan asked for the millionth time that day. He put his hand on Yugi's forehead as if to check his temperature.
"Guys, I fine!" Yugi said, swatting away Tristan's hand. The looks from his three friends told him they still didn't believe him.
It was now Tuesday, and thanks to the strange events of yesterday, part of which Yugi didn't even remember, his friends all thought he was sick again. So he had blacked out twice in four days, so what! All this extra attention from his friends, and his grandpa, was getting really annoying!
Yugi sighed. "Guys, for real, I'm fine!" He gave them a pleading look.
Tea gave him a look, but then decided to change the subject. "Hey Joey, you want to duel?" she asked.
"Nah, Tea. You always beat me!"
"Aw, poor ittle Joey-kins," Tristan mocked.
"Tristan!" Joey growled.
Yugi gave Tea a grateful look and they went back to lunch.
***
The last bell finally rang and everyone got up from their seats and left the classroom, talking away.
"Hey guys!" Yugi said to his friends while they were standing at their lockers. He had just remembered something that his grandpa had told him that morning. "Grandpa got a new shipment of cards this morning! Do you want to come check them out?"
"Sure!" they said.
"Hey Yugi! Maybe your Grandpa could give Joey here a few pointers on how to duel!" Tristan said.
"Yeah," Tea agreed, "So I don't beat him all the time!"
"Hey!" Joey said in a pretend hurtful tone.
"He could give you some pointers," Yugi said, "Oh and guys! Grandpa's got this rare card that I want you guys to see!"
"Cool!" Joey said, "Lets go!"
Little did they know that someone was listening to them as they walked out of the school. And that someone was looking for a certain rare card himself.
The arrival at the Game Shop was like it normally was.
"Grandpa! I'm home!" Yugi shouted, "And I brought some friends over!"
Grandpa greeted them all with a hello. "How was school?" he asked Yugi.
"Oh it was great!" Yugi answered, "Grandpa, these guys really want to see that rare card that you have!"
"Well, I don't usually take it out but you can see it." Grandpa pulled out a wooden box and opened it. Inside was...
"The Blue Eyes White Dragon?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Joey shouted.
(AN- I think you know what's going on from then on.)
*****Unknown*****
Somewhere deep inside the Shadow Realm, a monster smiled. His master had been reawakened, but in the process he had forgotten everything that he had once known. But he was alive!
"What is it?" his best friend asked him, noticing his smile.
"The Chosen One has been found," he answered.
"I can feel it too," his apprentice said, "Barely though." Her eyes were shut in concentration.
"There is another new force too," the last of the four beings said. She shivered. "One that's reaching out into our world."
"Do not worry," the first monster said, "There are troubles ahead. But as long as the Chosen One and Master Yami work together, everything will be alright."
"I hope you're right Dark Magician." Celtic Guardian placed a hand on his friend's shoulder. "I hope you're right."
*****Yami*****
'Oh no!' Yami thought, 'This is even stranger than before!'
He had woken up in another strange place! It was a room filled with staircases and doors in all sorts of directions and angles that it didn't seem possible. It was like one huge stone maze that appeared impossible to solve!
"Well, I might as well see where all of these doors lead," Yami said to himself. He sighed and looked up at a door that was on the ceiling. "Well, the ones I can get to."
*****Yugi*****
'Man that sure was a strange weekend,' Yugi thought to himself as he sat in the class he had right before lunch. It was Monday again and Yugi had already finished his work so he just sat daydreaming until the bell rang.
Everyone had been treating him strangely all weekend. His friends and Grandpa kept asking him if he was feeling alright. He wondered why. They kept explaining things to him that he already knew, like he was some sort of child or something like that. It made him slightly upset. He had finally asked Joey what the deal was. Joey said that it was because he was acting so weird on Friday. Yugi couldn't really remember Friday, so he figured that they were right and he must not have felt good. But he assured them that he was fine now. Grandpa said he looked better anyway.
The bell finally did ring and he followed the crowd of students to the cafeteria, over to where his friends were already sitting.
"Hey Yugi!" Tristan said, "Did ya hear?"
"Hear what?" Yugi asked as he sat down.
"There's a new student in school!" Tea said, "He's from England!"
"Really?" Yugi was surprised that a new student would come this late in the school year. "Have any of you met him yet?"
"Mo," Joey answered, through chewing his food, "Dust heards rumors."
"Joey, can't you swallow before you talk!" Tea complained, "It's disgusting!"
"What?" Joey said swallowing. He looked at his friends while Tea frowned and Tristan and Yugi each raised an eyebrow.
"Hey Joey," Yugi said, breaking the silence, "Wanna duel?"
"Sure." It was their common custom to play Duel Monsters during lunch.
None of them noticed the white haired boy who walked by. "Hmm," the boy said, looking down at a strange golden object that hung from his neck by a leather strap. The object was a ring with a triangle in the center of it and seven diamond-shaped pointers hanging from the bottom of it, one of which was pointing strait at Yugi. Or more precisely, at the Puzzle that hung from around his neck!
"That's strange," the boy said, looking at Yugi for a moment, then turned and walked on, tucking the object under his shirt.
Yugi stopped playing the game for a minute, frowned and looked around.
"What's up Yug?" Joey asked.
"I don't know," Yugi answered, "I...well I just felt strange there for a second, like someone was watching me." A chill ran down his spine to emphasize his feeling.
The other three looked at him, and then looked around too. Not seeing anyone looking at their friend, they turned back to him.
"You sure?" Tristan asked.
Yugi frowned, but then shook his head a little and smiled. "Oh well," he said, "Let's get back to the game!"
"Okay!" Joey agreed, instantly forgetting that strange moment.
'I wonder what that was all about,' Yugi thought.
*****Yami*****
A chill ran down Yami's spine. Something or someone not quite right was near. He could feel it!
He stood up from where he had sat and leaned against the wall to rest for a little. He was back in the room he had started in, after almost two days of searching through this place. Or at least, trying to.
Most of the doors in this place were locked, and the ones that were open, had many traps in them. Yami had almost been killed more times than he could care to count! So he had returned to the main room, the one with the hieroglyphics all over the walls. (Just incase you were wondering, this is what it said: Oh spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, you are now part of another. The Chosen One has awakened you after a millennia has passed. As long as this One has the Millennium Puzzle, the two of you will share a bond. Take care of the little one and soon all of your questions shall be answered.)
Yami stood and looked up, where the magical window, as he called it, appeared on the ceiling and allowed him to see what Yugi saw in his world. He seemed to be in that place called "lunch" and nothing seemed to be wrong. But Yami could sense that Yugi still seemed a little nervous. (Yami could feel Yugi's emotions. He figured it was a part of this "Bond" the hieroglyphics talked about, as well as the magic window.)
Yugi had gone back to playing Duel Monsters, but Yami still had a strange feeling that something or someone was paying very close attention to him.
*****Yugi*****
"Man, Mondays sure go by slow," Joey complained as the group of friends walked into class.
"Come on Joey," Tristan said, "Cheer up! It's last hour!"
They sat in their seats as the bell rang and the teacher called them to attention. "Class," she said, "As I'm sure many of you have heard by now, we have a new student!" She motioned towards the door and a boy with white hair and deep brown eyes walked in, looking slightly embarrassed at being in front of all the students. "Introduce yourself!" the teacher said happily.
"Well, um," the boy started in a British accent, "My name is Ryou Bakura and I just moved here from England with my dad."
"Well thank you Ryou!" the teacher said, "You may have a seat next to... Joey!" She pointed to the empty seat.
"Thank you," Ryou said, bowing slightly. Then he took his seat.
The teacher went on with the lesson, but Yugi and the gang didn't really pay attention.
"Hi!" Joey said, "I'm Joey!"
"Nice to meet you," Bakura said politely, "I'm Ryou Bakura, but you can just call me Bakura."
"Okay Bakura!" Joey said, "Here, let me introduce you to my friends. This here is Tristan!" Joey pointed to the seat behind him, "Yugi!" he pointed to the seat next to him, "and Tea!" and he pointed to the seat next to Yugi.
They all greeted Bakura and him back to them. They all smiled, but then got back to the lesson. The teacher had stopped teaching to stare at them until they stopped talking. They got out papers and copied down notes until the bell rang, signaling the end of the day.
It's nice to have met you all!" Bakura said as he walked out of the school.
"Bye!" they shouted after him.
"What are you guys doing today?" Yugi asked as he finally got his locker open and started to pack things into his book bag.
"Nothing," Joey said. He was leaning up against the lockers, waiting for his friends.
"Well, I'm, um, busy," Tea said.
"Gotta help my dad clean out the garage," Tristan said, "He said that if I did, he'd pay me for it, and I'd finally get to buy that motorcycle I've been savin' up for!"
"That's great Trist!" Joey said.
"Wanna go to the arcade?" Yugi asked Joey.
"Yeah!" Joey said.
"Sure your up to it Yugi?" Tristan asked, smiling.
"Of course I am!" Yugi said, not catching on to why Tea and Joey were smiling at him too.
They all said goodbye and headed off their different ways.
***
After a couple hours at the arcade Joey suggested that they go eat at this new burger joint that had been opened near-bye. Yugi and Joey talked about Duel Monsters, like they usually did, while they sat in the booth, eating their burgers, when who else should appear but...
"Tea?" Yugi asked, "What are you doing here? Do you work here?"
By the uniform she was wearing, they could tell that she did work there, and by look on Tea's face, Yugi could tell that she wasn't too happy that they were there. And he was quickly confirmed when Tea splattered ketchup on them.
"What are you guys doing here!?" she demanded in a low voice, "You're not supposed to be here!"
"Whoa, sorry Tea!" Joey said, "We didn't know!"
"If they find out that I'm not old enough to work here I'll get fired!" she said.
"Don't worry Tea," Yugi said, "We won't tell."
"You guys won't?"
"No," Joey agreed.
Tea looked relieved. "Oh thank you guys! Oh and sorry about the ketchup!"
"That's alright," Yugi said. He smiled at her.
"Um Tea?" Joey said smiling, "Can I have some more ketchup?"
"Oh sure!" Tea looked at the bottle in her hand. "Um, this one seems to be empty." She smiled. "I'll just go get some more."
After a few minutes longer than it should have taken, Yugi started to get worried about her.
"Does it really take that long to get more ketchup?" Joey asked. He was also worried.
"I'm going to go check on her," Yugi said.
Joey nodded and Yugi snuck through the door that he had seen Tea go through. He found the Tea was being cornered by a thief that had snuck into the back storage room!
"Leave her alone!" Yugi shouted, with more courage then he felt.
"YUGI!!!" Tea shouted, fear in her voice.
"Stay outta this kid!" the man shouted. He picked Yugi up and threw him against the wall, hard! Yugi hit his head and was knocked unconscious.
*****Yami*****
'Yugi's hurt!' Yami realized. He became angry! He had become quite attached to the boy whose body they shared, even though Yugi was still unaware of it. And he didn't want any harm to come to him!
He was suddenly out of the maze room and in control of Yugi's body. And, an idea had just popped into his head.
"Why don't we play a game?" he said, smiling at the surprise on the man's face.
"I thought you were knocked out!" he said. He looked at the teen's smiling face and smiled back. "What kind of game?"
"It's not too hard to understand. I just shuffle this deck of Duel Monsters Cards," Yami said, pulling out Yugi's deck, "and we both pick a card and whoever's monster has the highest ATK Points wins."
"Seems easy enough," the man sneered, "I'll go first."
He pulled a card off of the top of the stack and it was the Curse of Dragon.
"Ha! This is a strong monster!" the man said, admiring its 2000 ATK Points. Not many monsters were stronger than it!
Yami pulled out one of them. "Dark Magician. You lose. So OPEN YOUR MIND!!"
The force was too much for the poor punk, so he fell to the ground unconscious.
"Yugi!?" Tea said.
"Tea, I..." 'Yugi's waking up!' Yami thought, 'Time to let him take over.' Yami receded from Yugi's body, and since Yugi wasn't fully awake up yet, he collapsed.
(AN-Okay, I haven't seen that flashback episode in a while so if anyone knows of any mistakes in this part, please point them out to me so I can fix it.)
*****Yugi*****
"Yug, man. You're really starting to scare me now!" Joey said.
"Are you sure you're not sick?" Tristan asked for the millionth time that day. He put his hand on Yugi's forehead as if to check his temperature.
"Guys, I fine!" Yugi said, swatting away Tristan's hand. The looks from his three friends told him they still didn't believe him.
It was now Tuesday, and thanks to the strange events of yesterday, part of which Yugi didn't even remember, his friends all thought he was sick again. So he had blacked out twice in four days, so what! All this extra attention from his friends, and his grandpa, was getting really annoying!
Yugi sighed. "Guys, for real, I'm fine!" He gave them a pleading look.
Tea gave him a look, but then decided to change the subject. "Hey Joey, you want to duel?" she asked.
"Nah, Tea. You always beat me!"
"Aw, poor ittle Joey-kins," Tristan mocked.
"Tristan!" Joey growled.
Yugi gave Tea a grateful look and they went back to lunch.
***
The last bell finally rang and everyone got up from their seats and left the classroom, talking away.
"Hey guys!" Yugi said to his friends while they were standing at their lockers. He had just remembered something that his grandpa had told him that morning. "Grandpa got a new shipment of cards this morning! Do you want to come check them out?"
"Sure!" they said.
"Hey Yugi! Maybe your Grandpa could give Joey here a few pointers on how to duel!" Tristan said.
"Yeah," Tea agreed, "So I don't beat him all the time!"
"Hey!" Joey said in a pretend hurtful tone.
"He could give you some pointers," Yugi said, "Oh and guys! Grandpa's got this rare card that I want you guys to see!"
"Cool!" Joey said, "Lets go!"
Little did they know that someone was listening to them as they walked out of the school. And that someone was looking for a certain rare card himself.
The arrival at the Game Shop was like it normally was.
"Grandpa! I'm home!" Yugi shouted, "And I brought some friends over!"
Grandpa greeted them all with a hello. "How was school?" he asked Yugi.
"Oh it was great!" Yugi answered, "Grandpa, these guys really want to see that rare card that you have!"
"Well, I don't usually take it out but you can see it." Grandpa pulled out a wooden box and opened it. Inside was...
"The Blue Eyes White Dragon?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Joey shouted.
(AN- I think you know what's going on from then on.)
*****Unknown*****
Somewhere deep inside the Shadow Realm, a monster smiled. His master had been reawakened, but in the process he had forgotten everything that he had once known. But he was alive!
"What is it?" his best friend asked him, noticing his smile.
"The Chosen One has been found," he answered.
"I can feel it too," his apprentice said, "Barely though." Her eyes were shut in concentration.
"There is another new force too," the last of the four beings said. She shivered. "One that's reaching out into our world."
"Do not worry," the first monster said, "There are troubles ahead. But as long as the Chosen One and Master Yami work together, everything will be alright."
"I hope you're right Dark Magician." Celtic Guardian placed a hand on his friend's shoulder. "I hope you're right."