Hello everybody. I'm writing a YuGiOh! story again, but this is more of a rewrite of my original story Rise of the Gods and Dark Force. Usually, in my point of view, you are suppose to do a rewrite after finishing your original story, but then I felt like I was making no progress into finishing it that I decided to start all over. Get rid of certain chapters, scenes and events that were not necessary, rewrite certain areas, that sort of thing. Hopefully though it'll get as many hits and reviews as the original. I'm still leaving up the original story if anyone still wants to read it. But as soon as get to the part where it is now, then I'll delete it. Anyways, hope you enjoy and let me know how you think.

The Dark Millennium Saga:

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Pharaoh

Introduction - Rebirth

Long ago, when the pyramids were still young, Egyptian kings played a game of great and terrible power. They did battle with magic and monsters for riches and glory. From these shadow games erupted a war that threatened to destroy the world. Until a brave and powerful pharaoh locked the dark magic away, imprisoning it for all eternity within the mystical millennium items.

However,

One part of history had become lost to the world, a dark history that changed the land of ancient Egypt and nearly brought it to complete destruction; this one part of history that became lost, had soon became forgotten.

Until now...

[Present]

A man was in his tent, protecting him from the harmful rays of the sun in the desert. His excavation team was digging through the sands, looking for something. He was speaking in Egyptian Arabic towards his fellow workers, asking them on their progress and giving them orders. The man was young, around his mid-20's. He had a short silver goatee, his long hair also being silver with two bangs sticking out like a downward "V" shape and the rest of his hair being tied together behind him into a ponytail. He was checking out his blueprints on the surroundings of the area, finding some kind of access into a certain area. Just then, one Egyptian man walked up towards the leader of the excavation man.

"Professor Frederick," asked the Egyptian man, "A word please?"

The man turned around and looked at the Egyptian man, wondering what he was asking for.

"You have an incoming video from Pegasus J. Crawford," said the man.

"Ah, yes. Thank you good sir," said the professor as he spoke softly with a somewhat English accent.

As the professor went to grab his laptop, he placed it on top of the table where his blueprints were and opened it up. He then quickly gained access into his webcam where he had an incoming call. He clicked it and two videos showed up, one with him on his end, and another video showing a man with long silver hair, part of it covering his left face and only showing his right side, and smiling towards the professor.

"Hello Toros," smiled the man, "So good to see you."

"Pegasus," laughed Frederick, "Likewise old friend. How are you?"

"Doing fine Toros dear boy," smiled Pegasus, "How is the excavation coming along?"

"Still looking for that bloody temple," groaned Frederick, "I know it is in this general area, but it seems I can't find any entrance towards it."

"I know you will find it eventually. It's only a matter time," said Pegasus, "I was hoping you would help me on my latest creation."

"Your Duel Monsters game is it," asked Frederick.

"Indeed. I wish I had your help on designing the game as well as the cards," smiled Pegasus.

"Haha, I wish I could Pegasus," smiled Frederick, "But you know how things are. One minute I'm gone and the next –"

"I'm calling you to attend a special event," laughed Pegasus.

Frederick smiled and then remembered Cecelia, Pegasus love, dying of an illness. It hit Frederick so hard because she was everything to Pegasus and Pegasus nearly lost his mind after the loss.

"Don't worry," said Pegasus unexpectedly.

"Excuse me," asked Frederick.

"You worry too much Toros-boy," smiled Pegasus, "I am sad over her death, but I moved on. And as long as I remember the moments we shared together, she will never die in my mind."

"How did you-"

"You're an easy book to read Toros," laughed Pegasus softly.

"I guess we've been friends for far too long," laughed Frederick.

Both men laughed softly with one another; however Frederick didn't seem to notice a small golden sparkle coming from under Pegasus hair that covered his left face. Soon after, another Egyptian man came running towards Frederick, breathing heavily as he reached him.

"Professor Toros," yelled the man, "We found it! We found it!"

"What," yelled Frederick as he stepped away from the laptop.

"The temple! We finally found it," said the man still breathing heavily.

As Frederick went back to his laptop and speak to Pegasus, Pegasus raised his hand, stopping him from speaking as he knew what he was going to say.

"Go. We can chat another time," smiled Pegasus.

"Thank you Pegasus," smiled Frederick, "Maybe I might find something useful in the temple that could help you on your Duel Monsters creation."

"I hope you do. I'm running out of the ideas and I would like to steal yours," laughed Pegasus.

"Haha, make me do all the work huh," asked Frederick smiling softly, "Best be going. Take care, good friend."

"As to you," smiled Pegasus.

Both men turned off their video cameras and Frederick closed his laptop and set it aside before facing the man that had called him earlier. He looked the man and nodded, the Egyptian leading the way with Frederick following close behind him. They ran towards a lone giant rock mountain and Frederick saw that the excavation team had made a small tunnel that led them inside the rock mountain. As they went through it, Frederick couldn't believe. The mountain itself seemed to be somewhat hollow as in the middle of the giant rock mountain was a huge temple, a temple made out of black stone. It had huge stairs heading towards the top that led into an entrance, almost as similar towards the Mayan temples and it seemed to be nearly as tall the Great Pyramid of Giza, may be even a little bigger, and it lay hidden, inside a mountain in the middle of a desert, locked away from the world.

"This is it. This is it, The Temple of Apep," said Frederick softly as he eyed the black stone temple, like it was some kind of magnificent site he had ever seen in his life, "I've been looking for this temple for years! A pyramid that hid away from world. A pyramid locked in a mountain, hidden, but seen in plain slight! A pyramid, with probably a large amount of history that was lost to the world and then forgotten!"

"My men seem not to like the creation of the pyramid," said one Egyptian man as he came up behind Frederick.

Frederick looked behind him and saw the man, wearing a light brown long-sleeve shirt, dark tan pants with straps attached to them that went over his shoulder like those overall pants, and a had brown light brown hat on him.

"Akiiki," smiled Frederick, "Nice to see you."

"Likewise Professor," said Akiiki as he removed his hat and handed it to a nearby excavator to hold his hat.

Akiiki was a friend to Frederick and as well the man who made up the excavation team to help him search The Temple of Apep. He walked up towards Frederick and eyed at the temple that stood in front of him "But this temple seems to be…different. My men fear it and wish not to continue."

"But Akiiki, with this temple, who knows what we could discover," said Frederick, "Untold history and knowledge lay inside this and I must know about it. I want to learn about Egypt's history as I find it fascinating and when I had found information on a lost temple on one of the stone tablets in the museum, I had to find it. I'm paying you and your men good money to help me discover it. I just need a guide to help me through the temple as you and your men seem to greatly know about the structures of a pyramid."

"I know you are Frederick and you know I would gladly help out in any way I can," said Akiiki, "It's just. Something about this temple seems off. Like it was MEANT to be hidden."

"It will be for a short period of time. Just let me get the notes I need to take and then will call it a day," said Frederick.

"Very well," said Akiiki as he seemed to have no choice.

He called out towards the excavation team in his language and began pointing fingers towards a number of men, ordering who will be heading inside the pyramid with him and Frederick. Although most of the men seemed skeptical about entering a black pyramid, they nodded in agreement and walked up the stairs into the entrance. Frederick and Akiiki walked behind the group of men as they headed towards the top and went through the entrance. As they reached inside, they slowly began descending down the pyramid. The pyramid was dark and moist and the group of men held their torches high to light up part of the pyramid. Frederick couldn't believe what he saw. On the walls were giant hieroglyphics, telling its history on how it was built and what it was meant for. However, Frederick seemed to notice he couldn't understand it, like it was made from another language, symbols he saw different compared to the other symbols he studied while studying Egypt. Many of the men couldn't understand it, which was completely odd and the pictures of the wall showed disturbing pictures. Men were falling into some kind of bottomless pit, being eaten alive by scarabs and crocodiles, spikes falling from the ceiling, arrows shooting from the wall, everything. It was pretty much like a gigantic warning sign and many of the men began feeling nervous and wanted to leave.

"Still want to continue moving forward," asked Akiiki as he seemed to notice the pictures on the walls, "I do not like the looks of things."

"I don't want to take them lightly either," said Frederick as he continued walking, "But we can't stop now. We just got to be careful and watch our step."

Soon after, they seemed to have reached flat ground after a long ways heading down from the pyramid, but no one seemed to know how far they reached as soon as they got in, or how deep they were in. As they continued to walk, one group of man stepped on a loose floor tile, and soon everything began to shake. Everyone started to panic and then the floor on their ground began to fall and nearly everyone was falling to their deaths. Frederick, Akiiki, and few other men were lucky enough to be standing on a small walkway that was being supported. However it was skinny and it seemed like everyone had to be stay in a line to survive.

"This is becoming too dangerous professor," yelled Akiiki, "I suggest we leave immediately!"

"I agree! Let's return to camp," yelled back Frederick.

As Frederick turned around, a statue had appeared out of nowhere behind him, blocking their way holding a spear. The hand holding the spear had moved down and the statue was slowly moving towards him.

"We got a problem" yelled Frederick, "There is a statue holding a spear and it is aiming for me! Can I give out an option that we move forward? As in now?"

As the remaining survivors moved forward, another statue was blocking their path, holding a shield. Frederick looked behind the spear statue was slowly catching up towards them.

"We're trapped! We are all going to die," screamed one man.

Frederick scanned the area, hoping for some way to escape. Then he noticed another walkway separating on the one they were standing on, and then separating again into many different paths.

'This is a maze,' thought Frederick, 'A one way maze, which means…no mistakes or will be trapped and stabbed to death!'

"Akiiki! This is maze! However it seems to be only one ways, so we must be careful on what we pick or it will be the end of us all," yelled Frederick.

Akiiki nodded and was yelling towards his men about the maze. However, one of them got nervous, he pushed down his own man into the abyss who was screaming for his life and a run for it. However, as he took one step, the pathway he was on collapsed and he too began screaming for his life.

"Well, at least we know not to go that way," said Frederick, "Now let's go! Go! Go! Go!"

As the last group of survivors was moving into a separate walkway, a secret door opened and more statues were coming out, holding more spears and slowly chasing after them. The team moved as fast they could and one statue managed to catch up to one man and stab through him and then fall off the end of a pathway, taking him down into an abyss. Ever turn they took seemed to get them closer to the end, but it meant more statues coming after them and the faster they began to move. Even the traps became more dangerous. Some of the floor tiles had spikes on popping in and out and one unlucky man got caught in it. Soon, it was only Akiiki and Frederick and the traps got worse and worse. Frederick could see some kind sparkle at the end of their dangerous pathway maze and some kind of safe area.

"I can see the end of this horrible trap," yelled Frederick, "We are almost there!"

As Frederick caught up towards an end, an arrow had shot out of the wall and hit Frederick through his left shoulder. Too make things worse, as soon as they reached the end, the floor began to crumble and Frederick was able to grab the edge of the floor with his right hand. Akiiki however fell off, but Frederick was able to save him from falling into the eternal darkness, but as he grabbed him, his weight was causing a great pain towards his left shoulder as they arrow was still in his shoulder.

"Frederick," yelled Akiiki, still holding onto the professor's hand as he hung down below him.

"I got you Akiiki," yelled Frederick, fighting off the pain on his left shoulder.

Akiiki eyed at the arrow and sighed sadly. He knew what he had to do, but wondered how his friend would respond.

"Frederick, let me go," said Akiiki softly.

"What," yelled Frederick, "No! I won't! I can't! You're my friend and I'm not going to let you die! Will get through this!"

"If you continue to hold me, we will both die," yelled Akiiki, "You won't be able to hold out any longer!"

"You're making me do something that I cannot do," yelled Frederick, "Don't make me do this!"

"You won't," said Akiiki softly and looked up at his friend, smiling weakly, "You need to survive my friend."

"Akiiki! No," yelled Frederick.

Akiiki had broken his grip with Frederick and fell into the abyss. Frederick screamed out towards his friend, but now knew it was pointless. He looked up and tried to pull himself up, but he was losing his grip and his shoulder was still in pain from the arrow and there was no way he would be able to save himself. As his grip on the edge broke off, something had grabbed him. He looked up to see someone above him holding onto his wrist, dressed in ancient Egyptian clothes. He picked up Frederick onto hard ground. As Frederick was saved, he looked around to find his savior, but not one was around. All what stood in front of him was a small stand that held a black shiny box. He got up and slowly walked towards the black box and examined it, written in the ancient Egyptian language and some kind of eye that seemed to be staring at him from the front of the box.

"What is this," asked Frederick to himself, "Is that…gold? But that can't be. How can gold be black?"

I am the one who has saved you.

"Who was that," yelled Frederick as he quickly turned around.

No one was there and he looked in every possible area from where the voice could be coming from, until he noticed it was coming from the box itself. He turned back towards it and inched a little closer to it.

I am the one who has saved you from your death mortal.

"Who are you," asked Frederick towards the box, thinking to himself he had gone insane.

I am a great and powerful pharaoh who was locked away into this box by dark magic.

"A pharaoh? As in an Egyptian pharaoh," yelled Frederick, not believing what he was hearing.

Open the box. Inside you will see broken pieces. If you can solve it, I can bestow upon you great power and knowledge. Only those worthy of solving me may be gifted with these. I can give you knowledge you seek. Knowledge you desire. But you must solve me.

Frederick opened the box to see thousands of pieces inside of it, just as they voice had said. He grunted as he tried to fight the pain as the arrow was still stuck in his shoulder, but he didn't care. He seemed to be losing his mind and it seemed there was no way of getting out, so what was there to lose? He grabbed each piece and studied it, merging it together with other pieces. Soon, he noticed he was created a small pyramid, and it seemed to be made of the same material as the box, black gold. He then noticed that front was missing one piece. As he grabbed the final piece from the box, he noticed it was the eye symbol, the same symbol that was on the front of the box. He was shaking as he held the final piece in his hand. Was he nervous? Scared? Of what? Sure, there was voice coming from the box, but there seemed to be more to it. What could it be? As Frederick gulped, he slowly placed the final piece on the puzzle, taking form of a complete upside down black pyramid. There was a bright light and soon, he could hear…laughter? The room began to shake and then he could hear his own screaming as black smoke appeared from the puzzle and went inside of him through his mouth.

Outside of the temple, a storm was appearing, thunder and lightning appearing over the land of Egypt. The rest of the excavation team were running away, trying to escape from the storm, but soon, they could feel the earth shaking, and the ground they stood on split. Everything began to fell down into the ground that was around the temple area. People, equipment, everything. Everyone was screaming, but soon, all you could hear was the storm roaring.

As the light disappeared, a man with huge spiky black hair stood there where Frederick once stood. He eyed down at the pyramid puzzle he held on his hand and a smirk appeared on his face. Soon after, he began laughing uncontrollably.

"After thousands of years, I'm finally free," laughed the man, "I'm finally free!"

He then noticed the arrow that was stuck out of his shoulder. He grinned at it and gripped onto it, pulling it as hard as he can out of him. He screamed in incredible pain, but when he succeeded on pulling it out and throwing it aside, he looked at his hands, seeing blood over it and blood dripping down out of his shoulder. He grinned evilly and started to laugh once more.

"Pain. Pain is good! Mean's I'm alive! Mean's I'm free," laughed the man, "Now I can get my revenge! Time to see how much this pathetic planet has changed while I was away!"

Just then, he felt something. He rubbed his forehead and noticed he could sense something. Something he could feel in his mind that he felt back then. He then gave out a small grin and burst into laughter.

"So he is still alive after all these years huh," laughed the man, "Maybe I'll plan a surprise when the time is right. Till then, I will prepare myself."

Soon, he extended his hand a dark portal appeared in front of him, swirling around inside of it. He stepped inside and the portal disappeared. Then, the whole temple began to shake and rumble came crashing down from the ceiling. The whole temple was collapsing and disappearing into the desert sands. The temple where it once stood had fell into ruins and was gone, like it was never there in the first place.

End of – Introduction: Rebirth

I worked hard on creating the booby trap scene, but as you can see, it wasn't that great. Not good when it comes to that kind of thing. Still, hoped you enjoyed it. Many of you might know who the man is if you had read my original story and those who don't, well you just got to wait and find out. Unless you are one of those people who read my profile and figured out who the man is. Oh well. Whichever, hoped you enjoyed it and will leave a review.