NOTE: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, I just own my characters Sabrina and Zaria.
~Sabrina~
"Get up you slackers!" Rebecca shouts banging on a pan.
I watch as the rest of the gang wakes up, which involving literally falling out of bed. It's been a few days since Dartz' defeat and we're still staying in America in Professor Halkins camper. We haven't seen Lucas or any of the Doma ex-employers since he was defeated and they stated that by now they needed to sort out their lives and travel alone. "Just wake me up when its chow time." Joey says yawning.
"Joey, get up now. You guys are so lazy!" Tea complains.
"Hey, where's Yugi?" Rebecca says.
We look around to the couch Yugi was sleeping on to find it empty. "Did he take off again?" Tristan asks.
"I'll go look for him." I say heading for the door.
I walk out of the camper to meet my eyes with the blinding bright sun. I squint and then walk over to the lake where I can see Yugi standing by the shore. He seems to be talking to someone, no doubt Yami. I walk up behind him, "What are you talking about this time?" I ask.
Yugi turns around, "Oh, morning Sabrina. I was just talking to Yami about what we're going to do now." He says.
"Which is?"
"Well, as soon as we get home, we're going back to that museum!"
"Yep, now come on, we're starting to cook breakfast."
Yugi and I walk back to the camper to see that the gang is already placing food down at the table. The first thing Rebecca does when she sees Yugi though, is hug him so tight that he claims he can't breathe. All of us then sit down at the table and start chowing down. "Man, this is good stuff! I'm stayin here forever if ya keep cooking like this!" Joey says.
"Yeah, but we should head back home soon." Yugi says.
The phone rings from inside the camper, so Professor Halkins leaves to grab it. "By the way, what's the plan once you guys book a flight back to Japan?" Duke says.
I immediately spit out all the rice in my mouth down on the table, which almost lands in Joey's food, "Hey! Watch it! I'm eatin' here!" he yells.
"What'd you do that for, Sabrina?" Tea says.
"Something just occurred to me now." I say, "Where are we going to get the money to go back home?"
Everyone else then almost spits out whatever they were eating. "Oh yeah, Pegasus flew us here…" Joey says.
"You mean we haven't thought of this until now?!" Tristan says.
"Oh no…" Tea says.
Well, all of us are broke and the Halkins don't have enough money on their tab at the moment to help us out, and besides they've done too much for us already. The only one who's actually happy about this is Rebecca, stating 'she'll get more quality time with Yugi'. Seriously, that kid needs to get her head out of the clouds.
We all start thinking of ways to get fast cash, when we hear a sound overhead. "Hey… Is-is that Kaiba's helicopter?" Tea says.
"Yep." I say looking at the 'KC' logo on it.
The helicopter lands nearby, so all of us stand up from the table and head over there. Mokuba and Roland shortly emerge from the helicopter, "So I hear you guys are broke." Mokuba says.
"How'd ya know that?" Joey says.
"Never mind that. You guys want a lift back to Japan?"
"Really? You mean it?" Yugi says.
"Of course," Mokuba says looking rather smug, "But there's one catch. In exchange for the ride, you'll have to compete in my brother's new Duel Monsters tournament."
"New tournament?" Yugi says.
"Yep, let's sit down. I'll fill you in."
All of us walk back to the camper and clear the food from the table and sit down. "Okay," Mokuba says, "You guys heard of Kaiba Corps new theme park?"
"Of course! Kaiba Land has been in every newspaper!" Rebecca says.
Honestly, no one else here has heard about it, but we just nod in response anyway. "Yeah, and it's about to open too." Mokuba continues, "So my brother wants to kick things off with a bang! The event with Dartz and everything really put our company in trouble, so we're opening up Kaiba Land early with a special event. In this case, it would be a Duel Monsters tournament; the Kaiba Corp Grand Prix! So Seto told me to round up you guys for the event. Now let's go!"
"But wouldn't Kaiba have the decency to ask us himself?" Tristan says.
"My brother has been really busy lately!" Mokuba says, "In fact, he's so wrapped up with running the company that he's not even competing!"
Kaiba's not competing? That doesn't sound a lot like him, "Oh I get it." Joey says, "He's just too scared to lose to Yugi again! Ha! What a wimp!" Okay, that sort of maybe sounds like Kaiba.
"That's not true! You try running a multi-million dollar company and opening up dozens of theme parks around the world! Believe me, it wasn't an easy decision for him."
"Right, so what are the specifics to the tournament?" I ask.
"Okay, listen up." Mokuba says, "We're inviting the top ranked duelists from around the globe, but it's not just everybody, there's only a select few. And they're all competing for the chance at becoming the World Champion Duelist. But for that, we need the World Champ himself."
All of us glance toward Yugi, seeing joy on his face, "Wow, of course I'll come!" he says.
"I'll come too. This sounds exciting." I say.
"And if Yugi and Sabrina are playin then so am I!" Joey says.
"Great. My brother approved of you two coming anyway." Mokuba says.
"Hey! What about me! I'm the youngest regional champion!" Rebecca whines, "I deserve to be in it too!"
"Alright, my brother approved of you anyway. Here are your tickets guys." Mokuba says handing each of us an envelope. "So get packed; the next flight to Kaiba Land United States via Kaiba Corp leaves now!"
All of us immediately go back into the camper and get our suitcases ready. I decide it would be best to change my clothes; I put on a white shirt with red sleeves that go down to my elbow, a pair of jeans, my red deck holder belt, my usual sneakers, and fix my hair into a ponytail. I grab my bag and walk outside again.
All of us, including Professor Halkins, then board the helicopter. Within a matter of hours, we're finally able to reach Kaiba Land. I stare out the window and look down at the park. It seems to have some of the grandest and most extreme, yet kid friendly, rides I've ever seen.
Mokuba gives us the grand tour around the park, where there are Duel Monster themed items all around the park (mascots, rides, statues, etc), with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon making up about half of them. "Didn't you say the park didn't open yet? Why are there so many people?" Tea asks,
"Oh, everyone here now are just special guests. And did I forget to mention every ride is free today?" Mokuba says. "But before we get to that, let me show you this one place in the park."
Mokuba leads us around the middle of the park, where an arena sits. The whole thing is white-silver and is shaped like a Blue-Eyes head, "We call this the Blue-Eyes Dome!" Mokuba adds. We enter the arena to see that the place is huge, "It's the world's largest indoor stadium! And it's all for dueling purposes only!"
In the middle of the stadium is a dueling arena, which looks far more advanced than the ones we used back in Duelist Kingdom. There's a kid dueling on it, but no one on the other side, "Wait, what is he dueling?" I ask.
"There's a built-in computer to the arena."
We watch as the computer plays DNA Surgery to transform every monster on the field into a dragon. It then activates Polymerization to fuse together its four Scapegoats and Battle Ox to summon Five-Headed Dragon. Something seems awfully familiar about this deck. Five-Headed Dragon then attacks the boy's Gagagigo and wins the duel. "You see, we programmed the computer to mimic the skills of all the greatest duelists in the world, mostly Seto and Yugi though." Mokuba says.
"But if its deck is that great, then how is anyone supposed to win?" I ask.
"Easy. We programmed it with levels one through five."
It seems like a pretty interesting way for duelists to grow stronger. The boy steps down from the dueling arena to meet with some other kids, who still encourage him even though he lost. Most of the kids then stare over to us, "Hey, is that Yugi Muto over there?"
"No, it's gotta be a mascot!"
"But he's with Sabrina Cafford!"
"Let's go get their autographs!"
The group of kids run over to us and mostly crowd around Yugi, but some of them crowd around me as well. I sign a few autographs, along with Yugi doing the same. One kid then steps forward to us, "Oh wow, I'm a big fan of yours Yugi. I have been since Duelist Kingdom! My name's Leon." He says holding out his hand. He has purple hair and brown eyes and dresses kind of like the rich and nerdy type.
Yugi shakes his hand, "Nice to meet you, Leon." He says.
The boy named Leon then holds his hand out to me, "Oh yeah, and your Sabrina. Nice to meet you." He says.
I shake his hand, "Same here, Leon."
I glance over to see Joey leaning in toward the kids, "Hey guys, ever heard of me? Want an autograph?" he says.
The kids look around at each other confused, "Who are you?" one asks.
"Come on, Joey Wheeler, third in Duelist Kingdom, Battle City finalist."
"Never heard of you."
Joey frowns and begins to pout. Yugi and I begin to sign a few more autographs, "Um excuse me, Mister King of Games." One boy says.
"Uh, yes?" Yugi says
The boy pushes through the small crowd and stands before Yugi, "My name's Rick. Can you look over my deck, please? No matter what I do, I can't seem to win."
Yugi takes Rick's deck and starts looking through it. I lean over Yugi and peer at some of his cards. The deck is completely filled with dragon-type monsters with no magic or traps whatsoever. "But all you have are dragon cards." I say.
"Yeah, dragons are my favorite! I traded all of my magic and trap cards to get these!" Rick says.
"Well, it's obvious that you respect your cards and that's a great thing." Yugi says, "But you also need to balance out your deck with magic and traps. Here, take this."
Yugi holds out a card to the boy, which he takes, "Huh? Heart of the Underdog? And I get to keep this?" Rick questions.
"Yep, it reminds me of one of my closest friends. I think it would be best in your deck though."
Joey gives a questionable look toward Yugi, and I can't help but laugh to myself. Rick then turns toward his group of friends, "Awesome! I'm going to try it out now!" he says running to the dueling arena.
Rick sets the level to 'two' and begins the duel. The duel is about to commence when all of the sudden, the whole stadium goes dark. "I guess there are a few flaws in your system." Rebecca says.
"That's impossible! We worked out every possible flaw!" Mokuba says running to the controls to try and fix it.
The electricity for the dueling arena then comes back on, but not the lights. I look over and notice that all the exits have closed, and have the security gates around them. What's happening? "That's impossible!" Mokuba says, "I've lost control of the system!"
Rebecca glances over Mokuba's shoulder, "My suspicion is that a hacker broke into your system." She says, "But they seem pretty top class to pull something like this off."
"But why? Why would someone hack into an amusement park attraction?"
It does seem pretty suspicious, but then again, there's always a motive for everything. "Obviously someone is trying to get your attention, by the looks of it." Rebecca says, "And I guess the only way to get out of here is to beat the computer in a duel."
"It's time to duel." The computer says, "Now summoning Berserk Gorilla to the field. Add one face down card and concluding turn."
"Wait, guys, look up at the screen." I say pointing, "The computer reset itself to level five."
"Oh no, what now!" Rick says.
"He'll get crushed by the computer! He's only a beginner!" Mokuba says.
Way to encourage, Mokuba. But I suppose he's right; Rick won't stand up to level five. "Yugi, you know what has to be done." I hear Yami say.
Yugi nods as the Puzzle starts to glow.
~Ari~
I look up and watch Yami jump up onto the dueling arena next to Rick, "Don't worry, I'll take it from here." He says.
"T-that's cool." Rick says.
"Right, I'll bring your deck to victory. But you must have faith."
"Right!"
I know Yami will have to win this; he's better than any computer. But we have no idea what the hacked computer will do, so we just got to have faith.
Okay, I would've updated this sooner, but here's a story about what held me up. Everyone remembers that rewrite I was doing, correct? Okay so about a day after I finished Season 4, I had everything ready for Season 5 and only had like 4 chapters left to do in that rewrite. So that night, all of the sudden, I realized I missed a HUGE plot-point in the rewrite relating to Season 5. So here I go, rewriting like 20 chapters all over again. And so, I had to upload some extra chapters on it, which caused the fanfic to get moved to the top of my fanfic list. So that ruined my order, so I deleted the last chapters of each of the Bonded stories and re-uploaded them in the correct order (which is why most of you guys got that alert). But now I think I'm finally ready to start writing this!