Yu-Gi-Oh! The Games of Darkness

The Puzzle of the Gods

My name is Yugi Mutou. I'm a first-year student at Domino High School, and the owner of the Millennium Puzzle. It's a mysterious Egyptian artifact with some weird power. Anyway, let's get to the story.

My story starts in Classroom 1-B, where I was playing a game at my desk when the lunch bell rang. My fellow classmates were ready to play some Basketball, and I knew that if I joined them, I would make my team lose. That's why I stay in the classroom by myself and play my games.

As soon as all my classmates were gone, I then grabbed my backpack, and I got out a gold box with hieroglyphs carved around it. This was the box with my Millennium Puzzle. I was just about to open it when Hiroto Honda came up to me and snatched it out of my hands. I wanted Hiroto to give the box back, but instead he threw it to his friend, Katsuya Jounouchi.

"Geez!" said Katsuya. "Only a girl would want to care about a box like this one. Watching you really makes me sick, for it pisses me off big time! You know, I think I'm going to teach you how to be a man, Yugi! If you want this box back, then give me all you got!"

I hated fighting, for I never did like it. I just like playing games, so I asked for the box back.

"We won't give it to you!" said Hiroto.

"What's in the box anyway?" asked Katsuya. "I might as well take a peek."

"If you want to look, you can do so," I said. "Just whatever you do, don't lose anything! It's very important to me!"

Katsuya then opened the box, and before he closed it, he took out a piece of the Millennium Puzzle. "Man, that's just dumb," he said. He then tossed it to Hiroto.

But before Hiroto could even catch it, my friend from elementary school, Anzu Mazaki, came into the classroom and caught the box. "If you think that it's so dumb, then I suggest that you give it back to Yugi!" she said.

"ANZU!" exclaimed Katsuya and Hiroto.

I was happy to see that Anzu was helping me out. After all, the Millennium Puzzle is a treasure to me, and I don't want anything to happen to it.

"Those who bully the weak are what's dumb!" said Anzu. "Now get your butts out of here!"

Katsuya and Hiroto then bolted out of the classroom, swearing that they'll get me back.

"Here's your box back, Yugi," said Anzu as she set the box on the desk. "I know it's special to you."

"Thanks, Anzu," I said.

"You're welcome, Yugi," said Anzu.

"But man, I can't believe you scared those guys away," I said. "You just said something to them, and they ran!"

"They'll walk all over you if you don't knock them down. You need to get tougher, Yugi. All the guys in this school are just like those two. Not too long ago, they invited the girls to play Basketball with them. I knew it was weird, for I found out that they weren't passing to the girls, but looking up their skirts! Those guys are just big jerks! If you were a girl, don't play Basketball in a skirt!"

I knew she was right, for if Anzu and I swapped bodies, I would not want to play Basketball unless I was wearing shorts.

Anzu then looked at the box. "Yugi, can you show me the contents of this box?" she asked me.

When she said that, it made me realize that I hadn't opened the box yet. I asked Anzu if she was able to keep a secret, and she said that she can keep secrets. I then opened the box, and showed her my treasure. She was amazed at all the gold pieces.

"What are they parts of?" she asked. "They're disconnected."

"This is a puzzle that I have never completed yet," I said. I then told her that my family runs and owns a game shop, and that all the games my family and I sell were from different countries of the world. I also told her that eight years ago, I had found the puzzle on a shelf all covered in dust, and that I thought of the puzzle as a memento of my grandpa, even though my grandpa wasn't dead yet. My grandma was dead though, and I never see my dad, but the puzzle was still my treasure.