"Speak" normal speech.

"Speak" thoughts

"Speak" Mind speaking (Yugi to Yami or Ryou to Bakura)

Chapter 1

Boat to Duellist Kingdom

"My grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, Kaiba. But it does contain...The unstoppable Exodia!" Yugi shouted as he laid all five pieces of Exodia onto the playing field.

"Aagh! Impossible!" Kaiba screamed at he watched the ultimate monster appear.

"I've assembled all five special cards, all five pieces of the puzzle." Yugi said

"Exodia! I-it's not possible! No one's ever been able to call on him!" Kaiba screamed, staring in terror at the ultimate duel monster.

"Exodia... Obliterate!" Yugi shouted.

Tch-tch-tch, you presume I'm giving you a choice in the matter Yugi-boy." Pegasus said, wagging his finger and then pulling his hair back from his face. "But- I'm not! For I, too possess one of the seven legendary Millennium Items- the all-powerful, all-seeing, Millennium Eye!" He said, letting Yugi see the golden eyeball embedded in his left eye socket.

"A Millennium Eye?" Yugi exclaimed, amazed and scared at the same time.

"That's right; Yugi-boy, and now I'll show you the true extent of its magic!" Pegasus said as the Millennium eye started to glow. It then shot out a beam of light to hit, not Yugi, but his grandpa instead. A ghost that looked like Grandpa drifted out of his body before vanishing into the TV screen.

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Grandpa!..." Yugi shouted hopelessly at the static T.V screen.

"Don't worry, somehow, some way, I promise; we'll do it, together." Joey said.

"Together?" Yugi asked as he looked at Joey's face.

"Heh, you bet! We're a team, Yugi." Joey said as they both turned to stare at the sunset.

"Aw man, I'm so late" Joey said as he ran towards the docks. "And I promised Yugi that I'd help him out too." He sped up, hoping he would be able to make it to the boat in time.

He was so focused in his task of trying to get to the boat that he didn't see what or who was in front of him and as a result, crashed into the girl who had been slowly walking the same way.

"Owwwww" a feminine voice moaned as Joey opened his eyes to see a girl, a little older than him, by the looks of it, rubbing her head as she tried to stand back up.

Joey moved to help her and as he did, he finally started to see who exactly it was whom he crashed into.

She had long, wavy raven black hair, which was covered by an orange baseball cap and she had chocolate brown eyes. She wore what seemed to be a miko outfit except it was white and green instead of red and white. She wore black boots that poked out of the bottom of her pants and around her neck, she wore a necklace with what seemed to be a golden teardrop hanging down from it.

A low growling attracted his attention and Joey glanced down to notice a dog that was glaring at him with a guarded expression.

The dog looked to be a German shepherd type of dog with a silver stripe running down from the middle of the dogs back to the end of his tail where it stopped to give way to a pure white fluffy tail. Apart from the silver stripe, the dog was pure white colour with eyes that looked to almost be a molten gold colour. Around the dog's neck, there was a beaded necklace and for every five violet coloured beads, there was a bead shaped like a dog's fang and these were a creamy white colour. There was also a metal plate hanging off it. 'Probably to have the dog's details if he got lost' Joey thought as he helped the girl to his feet.

"Thanks" the girl said as she moved to stand before him.

"No problem," Joey replied. "So where were you headed in such a rush?" Joey asked as he dusted herself off.

"Down to the docks" the girl said.

"Oh, I'm headed the same way so why don't we go together?" Joey asked. "I'm Joey by the way, Joey Wheeler."

"Thanks, I'd love to but I'd better check with Inuyasha first" she replied.

"Who's Inuyasha?" Joey asked.

"Him" she said, motioning to the dog who was still growling, faintly, at Joey.

"The dog?" Joey asked.

"Uh-huh" she said as she bent down to look her canine companion in the eye. "Well?" she asked.

Joey's eyes widened as the dog dipped his head in what could only be seen as a nod of the head.

"Thanks Inuyasha" the girl said as she gave the dog a quick hug before standing back up to face Joey again.

"He said yes, so come on," she said as she started to pull Joey along behind her.

"So, what's your name anyway?" Joey asked as the duellist kingdom boat finally came into sight.

"My name's Kagome," the girl, Kagome said, smiling. "Kagome Higurashi."

"Well, here we are" Kagome said as they approached the duellist Kingdom boat.

"I guess this is where we part now," Joey said

"Why?" Kagome asked, moving her head to one side in confusion.

"Well, I'm boarding the boat that's heading to the Duellist Kingdom tournament and the boat that you're going to board is probably further up the docks.

Kagome raised her eyes. "So you're assuming that just because I'm a girl that means that I can't possibly qualify for the tournament," Kagome said.

"I didn't mean that" Joey said, waving his arms around. "I just thought that you were just boarding a different boat or was seeing someone else off! No offence meant." Joey said in a rush.

Kagome's eyes softened. "Ok then… For some reason I believe you." She said.

"Cool, so you're heading to Duellist Kingdom too?" Joey asked, trying to steer the conversation away from their previous topic.

"Didn't I just say that?" Kagome asked with an amused tone in her voice.

"Just checking…Listen I gotta go, I promised one of my buddies that I'd help him. So I guess this is where we part ways."

"Yes, but don't worry…I'm sure we'll meet again in the competition" Kagome said as she and Inuyasha disappeared into the crowd of arriving duellists.

"Weird girl" Joey muttered as he moved to try to sneak on board, though not before hearing "I heard that" from somewhere in the crowd.