San Diego

The man looked on in disbelief as his last monster burst into colorful pixels and his life points reached zero. He dropped to his knees in the dark alleyway, muttering, "No," over and over before he quieted, eyes blank.

A shadow stalked towards the defeated duelist. Silver moonlight glinted off of the blade of an upraised stone knife. The knife slashed down, and a spray of dark blood spattered the walls and ground of the alley. The sound of flesh parting, the murmur of foreign words, a flare of a match. These were all there and gone in a minute.

Only a few minutes later someone else walked onto the alley. "Doko wa…" the young woman murmured, looking for the light that had drawn her out of her hotel room and to the alleyway. She stepped further into the alley, and that's when she saw the grisly scene.

Stumbling back with a curse, she pressed the emergency button on her Duel Disk. As she waited for the Kaiba Corp security team to respond, she looked on in horror at the body of the other duelist, his chest torn open, heart burning on the dirty concrete. Even as she heard sirens approaching, she couldn't look away.