-1Actygius
Prologue

Why did they have to say that!?! Yugi thought as he raced down the streets of Domino.

To the average person it would seem as if he was running in no particular direction. The thing was Yugi knew where he was running to. He was going to his true home, not the Kame Game Shop, but his real home. One day he had come from his home and later wound up as Solomon's 'grandson'. Yugi was never really related to the old man, it was magic from his home that caused the old man to think so, not that Yugi minded, as lost as he was. This happened because Yugi had one non-native friend from England, and when he went to see him the 'exit' decided to punish him by sending him to Japan and living out the destiny foretold there.

Tears glistened in his eyes as he remembered the event that caused him to flee home from Domino City…

"Hi, Tea!" Yugi greeted as he arrived at the arcade.

Tea sneered. " Whatever, Yugi, now go away… you aren't invited."

Yugi blinked. "What… do you mean, I'm not invited? What are you talking about? I just wanted to spend time at the arcade," Yugi said, confusion ringing through his voice.

"My birthday party!" the girl rolled her eyes.

Yugi glanced around the room to see his friends gathered around the arcade with hatred in their eyes.

"O-Okay," Yugi blinked still confused, walking away towards a game he wanted to get a new high score on.

Once Yugi started to play, Tristan and Duke came up and 'accidentally' bumped him. This caused him to mess up the control and play of his game. Of course, at once he heard everyone else laugh at their antics. He then knew that they were picking on him… his best friends were picking on him.

"Well, well what do we have here a cry baby high schooler. How pathetic. You have a 'punk' style of clothes and hair, yet here you are about to cry, can't you take a little pressure? What a wimp, it's no wonder that Atemu left you, you are so weak that he couldn't stand being in the same body as you. I mean come on, it was Atemu who fought, and forced away all the evil people while we cheered him on and all you did was get him into those situations and hide in your mind. Really now, that is just pathetic," Tea stated with a smirk and a hint of hatred, anger, and amusement.

Yugi turned away from the game and ran out the door without even looking back at his once so-called best 'friends.' He was getting out of Domino now while it was still possible in his heart.

"Hey, Yugi wait up!" a voice from behind him screamed, breaking him out of his horrible nightmare of a so-called 'memory'.

Yugi ignored the voice and kept running till he got to Domino's Bay area, where he sat on the dock out of breathe.

He heard running behind him and when he looked up it was Joey, followed by what looked like a confused Isis, Ryou, Odeon, and Marik.

"Yu… Yugi… why… didn't… ya… stop… when… I asked ya to," Joey panted, out of breathe, looking down at the water once he caught up to his friend.

"What happened, Yugi?" Isis sat next the downtrodden boy, Odeon standing behind her, and Marik on her other side. Ryou sat down next to Joey.

Then Yugi remembered that Isis, Marik, and Ryou were not at the party. "Joey can tell you," Yugi whispered, hugging his knees, looking into the strangely vacant water for the entrance to his home.

While Yugi was intently looking, Joey told the story of what happened. At the end, both Marik and Ryou looked similar to their now dead Yami's. Isis looked at Yugi, wondering what he was doing.

"Yugi, what are you going to do now?" Isis asked in a kind voice, shocking Yugi out of his trance of using magic.

"Go to my home of Actygius, where my people and home are, you can join me if you want," Yugi told them the truth, knowing his was to never see them again.

"Actygius? Where is that?" Ryou questioned curiously.

"Nowhere on this surface, it's about a thousand feet under the ocean floor, like a layer before the core."

"You lived there?" Joey asked amazed.

Yugi smiled sadly. "Yes, and I should never have left, but I had to find my friend… I was worried about him."

"Why? What happened to him?"

"Harry was adopted into my family after he stumbled upon Actygius when we was trying to drown himself," Yugi explained, a tear falling down his cheek as he remembered the sad story of his adoptive brother and best friend.

"Why'd he do that?" Marik asked, both confused and, sadly, curious.

The sixteen-year-old King of Games closed his eyes in grief. "He was being abused by his guardians, his aunt and uncle."

His friends gasped in horror. "Why would they do such a thing?" Isis asked in outrage.

"They thought he was a freak." Yugi dropped his hand from his legs and began to trace the wood grains of the dock, clearly shaken up by both his story and the recent events.

"Yugi, are you all right?" Ryou asked, knowing it was best for Yugi to get off the terrible story of the young boy before he totally collapsed in grief.

The appointed boy shrugged.

"Yugi, you mentioned you left to find your friend. Why'd he leave Actygius? If he left because he was being abused, why would he come back?" questioned Joey.

Ryou's eyes narrowed. "Joey! I changed the subject for a reason!" he hissed angrily.

"No, it's all right, Ryou. He had to go to school, so he had no choice but to leave. Only, I didn't want him to be alone, so I tried to follow, but I wound up here and not in England like I wanted to."

Marik blinked. "If that's the case, why didn't you just fly to England? Or return home?"

"I was given a mission that came up when I left by chance, and I had no choice but to stay in Japan to complete it. So, I found Mr. Moto, and used magic to convince him that I was his grandson so I could complete my mission. And now, that mission is complete, and I can go home."

"What about your brother?" Odeon spoke up for the first time.

"He should be done with school next year, so I can wait for his return. Besides, I need to check in with my home, and tell the Elder's that the mission is complete."

Joey looked at his best friend of several years with tears in his eyes. "Yugi, when are you leaving?"

"Immediately," Yugi responded as a gate in the middle of water appeared out of nowhere.

"Yugi, wait, can we come with you? You're our friend; we want to be with you!" Joey pleaded, the others joining in.

Yugi sighed. "I guess."

Yugi walked out onto the water, and put his hand on the gate. It snapped open, and sucked in Yugi and his friends with a flash of white light. When the light vanished, the gate was gone, and the dock was deserted, showing no sign that the group of friends had ever been there.