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Ch.1 Regrets

The sound of his alarm clock woke Rex up, groaning he rolled over from his bed and hit the switch that turned the annoying buzzing off. Sighing he managed to heave himself up and slip out of his bed covers. He yawned and stretched out all while admiring his awards and trophies for being a champion duelist. 'Continental Champion!' one said while another read 'Duelist Master!'

Rex grew angry when he saw them; he was once one of perhaps the best duelists in the world, now he was the laughing stock of the entire game next to Weevil. The once proud duelist champion was no more ever since Yugi and his friend Joey humiliated him over and over again.

"If only I can do it all over again I could beat them!" He thought, "If there was just someway I could go back I would no matter the cost!"

Deciding not to get himself worked up over it like he had so many times before he walked to his drawer, got his clothes, and walked to the bathroom to shower. Thirty minutes later he came out with new clothes he recently purchased, black dickies with a T-rex shirt and fang medallion. Rex ran a finger through his long hair,

"I gotta get a haircut." He said to himself.

Feeling hungry he strode into the kitchen and saw a note on the dining table, shrugging he walked over to it and picked it up, it read:

Dear Rex,

I would like to tell you that I'm going to be working late tonight. There are pastries in the fridge and fruit in the cabinet. I don't want you playing cards too late at night with your friends, and you have to be in bed by nine.

Love, Mom!

"Friends?" Rex repeated, "I don't have any friends!"

Rex tore the letter in two and threw it in the trashcan, like his dueling career his personal life had been falling apart as well. Weevil found some new kids to hang out with and literally stopped talking to him, whenever he tried to talk to someone to make new friends they called him 'nerd' and 'freak' and whatever else they could think of. Rex felt a sickening feeling in his gut and no longer felt hungry. Groaning he turned back to his room and picked up his dueling deck.

He quickly examined the cards and looked at the mighty creatures that haunted each picture.

"If only I could bring them to life." He thought bitterly, "Then my life would be so much easier."

Putting his deck in his pocket he picked up his house key and walked out his apartment. Rex walked down the steps and soon entered the busy streets of the town. He scanned the horizon, like a predator searching for a victim, he was hoping to play some cards to kill some time and anger, and maybe win some easy cash. He smiled when he saw a gang of kids playing Duel Monsters at a street corner.

"This should be easy." He thought.

Rex put on a friendly smile and walked over to the gang of kids, "Hey you guys need an extra player?" He asked.

Twenty minutes later Rex grinned when he counted his earnings, "Fifty dollars in all easiest money I've ever earned, now for a quick stop at the arcade."

Rex crossed several streets and eventually made his way to the arcade across town; he frowned when he saw the small game shop across the street.

"Yugi's hang out better stay low." He said to himself.

Rex scanned the building for any sign of Joey or Yugi, to his relief they weren't there. And he continued on towards the arcade.

"What?" Rex cried out when the screen flashed Game Over You Lose.

"You have got to be kidding me!" He growled and reached into his pocket for more money, he retracted his hand when he began having second thoughts, "Nah better not fifty dollars doesn't come this easy."

Sighing he started for the sliding doors of the arcade and walked past many teens laughing and smiling with their friends. Rex instantly felt a lonely once more.

"This is okay I guess just wish I had someone to talk to." He thought.

The sound of girls laughing snapped him back to reality; Rex's eyes grew wide when he saw two beautiful girls seated at a table drinking soda and chatting about the day. Rex put on his charming smile and coolly walked towards them.

"Hey girls come here often?" He asked when he got close enough.

They scowled at him and sat up, "Get lost nerd!" One muttered.

"Yeah get a life nobody!" the other one growled and she knocked down her soda bottle, Rex growled when some of the sticky liquid spilt on his pants.

Rex looked up at them with anger but at the same time sadness, "Why doesn't anyone like me?" He asked himself.

Deciding not to make a scene he calmly walked outside and checked his watch, "Three thirty on a Saturday afternoon and I'm all out of things to do." He muttered.

Rex watched traffic come and go on the streets, "Well better start heading home then." He said aloud.

Rex crossed the street and walked alongside some trees in the park he was walking beside, he examined the old red woods along with some of the newer trees, the redwoods were falling apart and dismembered while the new ones were clean and untouched. A new generation was being passed on.

"So my season ends and another begins." Rex thought sadly.

Rex made it to a corner when he heard laughter and he recognized the voice instantly,

"Yugi!" He cried in disbelief.

Rex looked franticly for a hiding place, and chose to take cover behind a nearby tree. He watched with anger and pain as his two enemies walked past him.

"Hey Yugi are you going to the little tournament that's taking place next weekend?" Joey asked.

"You know it Joey." Yugi responded, "I wouldn't miss it for the world.

"This is my chance!" Rex realized, "I could challenge them both and beat them."

Rex smiled evilly, "I can finally teach them a lesson for embarrassing me!"

Rex was about to leap out of his hiding place when something stopped him fear. The sheer fear of losing to them once more put out his anger and he sighed.

"Not now I'm far from ready." He decided.

Silently he and using the trees to cloak him he sprinted into the darkness.

"Huh?" Yugi muttered and stopped.

"What is it Yugi?" Joey asked seeing the worried expression on his friends face.

"I thought I saw someone in the park right now." Yugi responded.

Joey checked their surroundings and after a few minutes he looked back down at Yugi, "Nope no ones here but us."

Rex hopped the chain link fence and landed on the concrete with a thud, anger returning once more he muttered something and decided to take a walk around the neighborhood.

"I may not be ready now, but rest assured Yugi. I will be one day and when that day comes you and everyone else who ever laughed at me will pay!" he vowed, Rex spat on the ground and continued on walking in the fading sunlight.