The Domino City Mall.
The typical teenage/ young adult hangout, the place every girl goes to snatch the biggest deal or just chill at the food court and ogle the wide-screen televisions of the latest and greatest duels in Domino. Today was no exception as five of the most well-known women entered the mall, ready for a day of girl time and shopping and…well, what else….guy ogling. Leader of the pack was the purple cad effervescent blond, Mai Valentine. Next was inspirationalist and "cheerleader", Tea Gardner. Next to Tea was Joey Wheeler's little sister, Serenity, and bringing up the rear were Rebecca Hawkins and her friend Jayne Estella, head of the famous Star Spangled Dancers in New York City.

The plan for today was to wow Jayne and hopefully land Tea a spot in the illustrious dance school.

"Ah, what a day," exclaimed Mai as six men carrying numerous bags trailed behind her and the other girls. They had just about drained every store of everything they could find, and there was one last thing left to do, head to the food court, grab some burgers and ice cream and watch the latest duels and play 'Who Could Come Close to Being King of Games'. Naturally, everyone knew that title wasn't going away from one Yugi Moto, who has held the title for some years now. Even though the gang's all in college now, no duelist alive has had the guts to test Yugi and challenge him for the title.

Finding the only table big enough to seat five, Mai grabbed the first seat and extended a newly manicured finger to one of the plasma screen televisions, stifling a laugh as a young duelist, no more than about 17, talked about winning the latest Duel Monsters Tournament and wanted to challenge Yugi for the title of King of Games. Tea and Serenity fought the urge to roll their eyes while Rebecca began shouting obscenities at the screen, making the others laugh.

"I know that boy," Jayne said, shrugging her shoulders.
"He sometimes comes to the studio to do light maintenance work. You know, changing light bulbs, sweeping, cleaning the barre and the mirrors. Nice kid, but incredibly stupid for his age."

"That's a bit harsh, Jayne," Rebecca quipped as she slumped into the seat next to her friend.

"Says the girl swearing at a television screen," Jayne shot back, pointing a frozen yogurt spoon at Rebecca pointedly. "Becks, you need to think about going into anger management. Seriously. If you're going to go off like a NASA rocket every time someone insults your boyfriend, then dear-heart, it's time for therapy."

"That'd be the day," mumbled Tea.

It was a well-known fact that Tea hated Rebecca Hawkins for 'stealing' Yugi away from her, in Tea's mind anyway. Truth of the matter was, the way everyone else saw it, Tea took too damned long deciding between Yugi and Atem and lost both of them. Yugi went on to date Rebecca and Atem got permission from Shadi to bring a girl to modern times. Her name was Syria, and everyone she came across was simply amazed by her.

"Not my fault you took forever to make up your mind," snapped Rebecca.

"Rebecca, you're one to talk," criticized Jayne.
"You followed Yugi around for…what….two, three years before he even said 'boo' to you outside of a dueling arena?"

"Ladies," chastised Mai, shaking her head.
"Can we remember why we are all here? But to put an end to all this:
Tea, Rebecca's right, you wasted too much time deciding which guy you liked more and you lost them both. Accept it and move on. You have a dance career to think of.
Rebecca, quite antagonizing Tea over it. You know how much Yugi hates it when you do that.
Jayne, I hope all this doesn't change your opinion of our dear Tea."

"Guys, look," chimed the usually quiet Serenity.
"It's Yugi, Atem, and Joey!"

All eyes focused on the screen as the tree mentioned men were in front of a camera being interviewed. Watchers are glued to their seats as all three announced that, per the request of Industrial Illusions head, Maximilian Pegasus, that they were heading the biggest dueling tournament Industrial Illusions had ever hosted. The site inside the new Star Winds Duel Arena in New York City, owned by dance studio instructor Jayne Estella. All eyes immediately fell on Jayne, who in turn blushed a deep crimson and buried her face in a copy of The Great Gatsby.

"Ok ok ok, so I forgot to mention I own the biggest dueling stadium in America," Jayne said bashfully as the news reporter announced that Joey, Yugi and former World Champion Seto Kaiba would be making special appearances at the Domino Mall at 3:30 that afternoon. Checking their watches, the girls realized they had about an hour before the guys appeared and decided to dress for the occasion. Heading for the Ladies' Room, Mai's cell phone went off.

"It's Joey," she said to the girls as she ducked into the first stall.
"Hello?"

" 'Ey, Spitfire. What's up?"

"Getting ready for the special guest appearances here tonight," Mai said, closing the snaps on her latest acquisition, a hot pink tube top and a black mini-skirt with matching black jacket that had a Red-Eyes Black Dragon on the back, Joey's most powerful card, and black Manolo Blahnik stilettos.

"D'awwwww, are youse getting' all dolled up for me?" Joey teased, making Mai growl into the phone.

"Not funny," Mai hissed as she hung up the phone and stepped out from the stall to the grins of the other girls. A bright pink flush spread over Mai's face as she stormed to the mirror to touch up her make-up.

Serenity decided to be the most conservative of the group and dressed in black slacks, a Victorian collard dress shirt and high heels. Her long auburn hair was in a high pony-tail wrapped with a white ribbon and a silver Rolex watch adorned her wrist, a gift from her fiancé Duke Devlin.

Rebecca decided on the more modern beauty route and dressed in an above-knee-length little black dress with red stilettos and a black and red purse. Her blonde hair was in a French twist, held by a hair clip modeled after Slifer the Sky Dragon, her favorite of the Egyptian God Cards.

Tea donned a black Chinese-inspired dress with a slit cut straight up the thigh, black and silver stilettos and a black clutch bearing the Magician of Faith, her favorite Duel Monster. Tea had all but kicked out her cheerleader personality in favor of a more adult (think more "Rated R" than "PG-13") attitude, which shocked her friends more and more every day.

Jayne went the typical flamboyant American route and stepped out in a dark red Marilyn Monroe inspired dress, silver stiletto heels, and a red clutch bearing the likeness of the Witch of the Black Forest in front of a sacrificial pentagram. On Jayne's arm was a henna tattoo of a pentagram and the words In omnibus repugnare et fidemon her right arm.

"What does that mean?" asked Mai, pointing to the tattoo as they exited the Ladies' Room, heading towards the front of the mall.

"It means, 'In all things, have faith and fight back'. My Gran-mama used to tell me that," Jayne replied, patting the tattoo lightly.

"That sounds like something my Yugi-Woogy would say," chimed Rebecca, garnering a strange look from the other girls.

"Yugi-Woogy?" The others said in unison before shaking their collective heads in disbelief at the Hawkins genius.

"Girls, look," whispered the Victorian-style Serenity, mimicking the girl from Poltergeist as she spun around slowly to face her fellow femme fatales.
"They're heeeeerrrreeeeee!"