YU-GI-OH:
DUEL CITY TOURNAMENT
CHAPTER ONE: NOBLE CAUSES
After school, Yugi quickly says good by to his three friends: Tea, Tristan and Joey, and hurries back at the shop. His grandfather just gave him a call, saying he has something important to tell him, but wants to tell him personally.
When Yugi makes it back to the Game Shop own by his grandfather, Yugi quickly enters the door, seeing there are no customers.
"Hey Grandpa?" Yugi yells out.
"Why that was quick," said Yugis grandpa as he walks out from the back. "Yugi, I got some good news and some bad news for you."
"Good news and bad news? Should I be worried?"
"For the bad news. The good news is, your mother is here in town."
"My mother, but I thought she's dead."
"No, that was your step-mother. I was asked never to reveal about your real mother, for what reasons, I don't know. Your real mother was an archeologist, she's the one who gave me that millennium puzzle to give to you."
"My puzzle?"
"Yes Yugi, your millennium puzzle was a gift from her."
"Then where is she?"
"That's the bad news I'm afraid Yugi."
At the hospital, Yugi rushes into the room where his real mother lies in bed. She has contained some type of rare disease on one of her expeditions.
"What happened?" Yugi asks worryingly
The doctor said, "she came down with a disease called, "Ampharoesic, while in lower Africa. Luckly no one was infected while she arrived, for it is an STD except when traveling in its infected environment, for it can be taken just by breathing it."
"Ampharoesic? I never heard of that disease. Can you save her?"
The doctor looks blankly at the young Yugi
When Yugis grandpa finally makes it to the right room (too old to keep up with Yugi), he finds Yugi sitting in a chair next to his mothers bed.
"Well? How is she?"
Yugi admires how beautiful and tall his mother is, surprised that height never infected him.
"She's sick terribly. But there's a cure for her, but it's expensive, and it's in Europe."
"How much are they saying?"
"About Sixteen thousand Yin."
"Oh my," Yugis grandpa went, not even his own death could cover even a quarter of that money.
"She's unconcess right now, and will remain that way, but she's expected to die without the treatment in two weaks."
Joey heads home from school, all joyful and everything. He learned the day before that his sister Serenity is coming over to visit and he decided to take her to their favorite beach.
Running home, with his father still at work, he realizes that he has beaten Serenity already.
"Huh, maybe she's running late," Joey thought aloud, thinking that Serenity should've arrived earlier then he did.
Joey changes out of his school uniform, and back into his regular clothing, and crashes onto his couch.
Joey then decides to falls asleep, it was only three-thirty. Just when he is about to doze off, he spot a note on the table near him
Thinking it could've been from Serenity, since his dad leaves for work earlier then Joey does for school, and never comes home until late, he gets up and reads the note, realizing that the letters where cutout of magazines, telling him that it's bad news
Joey worried, reads the letter:
If you want to see your sister again, watch TV tonight at 8PM sharp on channel 35. That'll give you a hint where you could find me and your sister. It's payback for what you've did to me.
Joey cries out, "what? Oh no, Serenities been kidnapped."
Tristan walks home, stopped at a couple of places first, and continues to walk. Then suddenly, he hears some snapping.
"Huh?"
"Lookout," cried out somebody behind him
Before Tristan could turn around to see who it is, he is pushed away, just before he hit the ground, he hears a very big crash behind him.
Tristan quickly turns around, seeing someone laying on the cement ground, with some large statue on top of him, right where Tristan stood
Whoa, that could've been me, Tristan thought to himself.
Tristan quickly gets up and runs towards the guy who saved his life, "hey somebody call for an ambulance quick."
That didn't work, everybody just keep on approaching, wondering what happened
"Didn't any of you hear me? I said call for an ambulance." Tristan yells out
Then some lady pulls out her cell phone and begins dialing for the emergency room, as someone walks up to check on the guy under the fallen statue. Tristan guesses that he could be a doctor
"He's still alive, but barely," said the doctor
Later, Tristan waits outside of the room, waiting for the doctors to come out. While waiting, he realizes that he's getting hungry. It's almost five-thirty, he usually eats after school, but never got a chance to eat yet.
Then two girls walks up to him, Tristan guesses that it's the mans wife and daughter
"Is this Ishiantzas room?"
"I don't know, the guy in here hurt himself trying to save me."
Then the doctor comes out of the room
"Is this Ishiantzas room?" The wife asks more worriedly
"Yes, he's in a critical condition"
"But he's going to make it, right?" Tristan asks angrily
"Of course, he's going to live, but I'm afraid he won't walk again, let alone his back will remain out for the rest of his life."
The two girls begins crying for their badly injured loved one
"Is there anything that could help him?" Asks the wife
"Yes, there can be an operation done, an American over in America can perform the operation. He's a good Chiropractor so I've heard. But we can't afford to bring him here. The cost of bringing him here, and the cost of the operation is twenty-thousand yin."
"That's outrages, that guy saved my life earlier today and he paid for it, and you're just going to charge him for that?"
"I'm sorry, this isn't the time to explain why we couldn't do the operation"
"Then just do it, I owe this guy one, so I'll pay for the operation, just bill me for it"
"Very well then. You all may go in now to see him, and you young man can meet me up in the front desk in a few minutes to talk about the bill"
As the doctor left, Ishiantzas wife asks him, "oh thank you, how can we pay you back?"
"Like I said, he saved my life, so I'm saving his." Tristan then thought to himself, now to get the money to pay for the operation
Tea headed home for dinner, wondering what her father is cooking. She hangs out with some friends after school on the way home, but lost track of time, and is running home.
Tea runs towards the elevator, repeatedly pushing the buttons. Must be out again, she thought.
Tea heads for the stairs and walks up to her floor, and walks towards her room, on the other side of the hallway after she exits the stairs
Walking down the hall, she makes it to her apartment, realizing something strange, the door is still open.
What's this? Tea begins to think to herself, Daddy would never leave the door open, whether he's in or out, there must be a break in
Tea quietly opens the door, trying to be as cautious as possible, looking into her apartment, seeing that everything's still intact
Then suddenly a strange man in a suit appears in front of her, grabs her and swing her inside, shutting the door behind them
Tea couldn't scream, the man is holding her good, Tea is helpless
The man drags Tea to her parents bedroom, finding two more men in suits, with her father beaten and bruised on the floor, but still alive
"Whose that?" Ask one of the men
"Don't know, she just suddenly appeared at the door," said the man holding Tea
Tea decides to try one of the techniques that Tristan taught her just incase
Tea removes her face from the mans grip, quickly grabs the arms, slides her right foot between the guys legs, and flips the man over her left shoulder, where he couldn't hang on any more
"Get out of here Tea," her father yells out
Tea tries to leave, but two more men in suits shows up at the door
Tea then retreats to her fallen father
"Ooh, a feisty one," said the man Tea flipped
"What's going on? Who are you people?" Asks Tea
The men ignored her, and turn their attention back towards her father, "we'll allow you to make the collection. We'll be watching you, if you or any of your family members try to skip out on us again, we'll kill you and your family."
Then the men leave, leaving Tea helping her father onto his bed, he's all bloody and bruised
"Father, what's going on? Who are those guys?"
Teas father hesitated, "Those men were a member of a mob that I use to work with over ten years ago. But I messed up, and now I owe them a lot of money."
"Ten years ago?"
"That's right, we moved away because of that, not because of a better job like I've told you. It was the only way to keep both you and your mother safe from them."
"How much did you owe them?"
"About forteen-thousand yen"
"You have got to be joking! Seven hundred-thousand yen?"
"I'm sorry about all of this, I got until one weak from this Friday to pay them off. I'll have to figure something out"
Teas father then slump onto his bed, unconcess from the blows he has suffered, Tea then runs off out of her apartment, taking a different set of stairs, not wanting to run into those creeps again
"It seams we all have problems today," Yugi is desperate, he wants to help his mother out, even if he had never met her, not even his grandfather knows why Yugi couldn't meet his mother
"I have got to find Serenity, or I don't know what I'll do." Joey went. "Thanks for letting me watch that program here Yuge, I don't have that channel at my apartment"
"No problem Joey," Yugi sounds like he's not feeling well, a lot is going through his mind.
"I have got to find some way to pay that guy back for saving my life," Tristan went. "He saved my life, now I want to save his, and I don't have the cash to do it, not even close to being a quarter away there"
"Hi guys," Tea walks in, sad and everything
"Tea? What's the matter?" Tristan went
"It's better if you guys don't know," Tea acts as if she saw a dead guy
Tea quietly sits down next to Yugi, and quickly gives him a hug
"Huh? What's this for?" Yugi is surprised, wondering if she heard about his mother
"Nothing, no matter what happens, we'll always be great friends Yugi."
"Hey it's starting," Joey went, turning the mute off
"What's starting?" Tea went
Yugi explained, "Serenity's been kidnapped, and this program is a clue to figure out where he could save her"
"What? That's terrible." On the TV, a man in a suit (reminding Tea of the mobsters) appears, and begins the presentation
"Attention all duelist of the Duel Monsters card game. If you want to compete in the largest tournament ever? Then starting tomorrow we'll begin our registration, and this coming Saturday, the tournament will begin."
"What kind of tournament?" Tristan asks aloud
"What kind of tournament you asks, why it's a full all out tournament, where duelist travel around a metronome size city called Duel City, with hand held holographic simulators built and based by Kaiba Corp. The tournament will then present a possible sixteen-man tournament for up to the first sixteen duelist who survived the elimination round. The runner up winner will win fifty thousand yin, as the grandprize champion will win one million yin."
"Huh? Did he say one million yin?" Tea asks surprised
"That's it, we each have some problems, let us compete in that tournament" Tristan suggested, "and split the money equally to the amount that each person needs."
"Yeah, and not to mention that I bet the Serenity and her kidnapper will be there too" Joey went
"That money will be enough to pay for my mothers operation and Tristan debt"
"Also be enough to pay off my fathers debt with the mob"
That got everyone's attention, putting Tea at a difficult place
"Maybe.It's best not to tell you guys? Hehe" Tea went
Then all four exchange what their problems are, and realize that the grandprize money is enough for both of them, even the runner up, will make it even.
"Alright, Serenity here I come for yah," Joey yells out
"Father, I can save us all," Tea went
"I can pay that mans life for saving mine" Tristan cries out
"Now I can save my mother even though I don't know her" Yugi agrees
Will Yugi and his friends win the prize money, or at least the runner-up prize money?
Who else is competing and what about the tournament?
Can Joey save his sister? Can Tristan pay for that mans operation? Can Tea save her family from the mob? Can Yugi save his long lost mother that he never knew all his life?
Who else is competing?
You'll just have to find out later by keep on reading this fic
Next Chapter: Duel City Registration
Kaiba Corp. is going bankrupt, and the Kaiba brothers are registering for the tournament, to keep the money for themselves. Yugi and others also sign up, learning about all the rules, and some house rules. Yugi and others meet old rivals from the past as they return.
Yugi tries to use his millennium necklace that he got from Ishitzu to locate Serenity in the future. Are the Rare Hunters returning? How will Tristan, Tea and Mocuba compete?
All in the next chapter
DUEL CITY TOURNAMENT
CHAPTER ONE: NOBLE CAUSES
After school, Yugi quickly says good by to his three friends: Tea, Tristan and Joey, and hurries back at the shop. His grandfather just gave him a call, saying he has something important to tell him, but wants to tell him personally.
When Yugi makes it back to the Game Shop own by his grandfather, Yugi quickly enters the door, seeing there are no customers.
"Hey Grandpa?" Yugi yells out.
"Why that was quick," said Yugis grandpa as he walks out from the back. "Yugi, I got some good news and some bad news for you."
"Good news and bad news? Should I be worried?"
"For the bad news. The good news is, your mother is here in town."
"My mother, but I thought she's dead."
"No, that was your step-mother. I was asked never to reveal about your real mother, for what reasons, I don't know. Your real mother was an archeologist, she's the one who gave me that millennium puzzle to give to you."
"My puzzle?"
"Yes Yugi, your millennium puzzle was a gift from her."
"Then where is she?"
"That's the bad news I'm afraid Yugi."
At the hospital, Yugi rushes into the room where his real mother lies in bed. She has contained some type of rare disease on one of her expeditions.
"What happened?" Yugi asks worryingly
The doctor said, "she came down with a disease called, "Ampharoesic, while in lower Africa. Luckly no one was infected while she arrived, for it is an STD except when traveling in its infected environment, for it can be taken just by breathing it."
"Ampharoesic? I never heard of that disease. Can you save her?"
The doctor looks blankly at the young Yugi
When Yugis grandpa finally makes it to the right room (too old to keep up with Yugi), he finds Yugi sitting in a chair next to his mothers bed.
"Well? How is she?"
Yugi admires how beautiful and tall his mother is, surprised that height never infected him.
"She's sick terribly. But there's a cure for her, but it's expensive, and it's in Europe."
"How much are they saying?"
"About Sixteen thousand Yin."
"Oh my," Yugis grandpa went, not even his own death could cover even a quarter of that money.
"She's unconcess right now, and will remain that way, but she's expected to die without the treatment in two weaks."
Joey heads home from school, all joyful and everything. He learned the day before that his sister Serenity is coming over to visit and he decided to take her to their favorite beach.
Running home, with his father still at work, he realizes that he has beaten Serenity already.
"Huh, maybe she's running late," Joey thought aloud, thinking that Serenity should've arrived earlier then he did.
Joey changes out of his school uniform, and back into his regular clothing, and crashes onto his couch.
Joey then decides to falls asleep, it was only three-thirty. Just when he is about to doze off, he spot a note on the table near him
Thinking it could've been from Serenity, since his dad leaves for work earlier then Joey does for school, and never comes home until late, he gets up and reads the note, realizing that the letters where cutout of magazines, telling him that it's bad news
Joey worried, reads the letter:
If you want to see your sister again, watch TV tonight at 8PM sharp on channel 35. That'll give you a hint where you could find me and your sister. It's payback for what you've did to me.
Joey cries out, "what? Oh no, Serenities been kidnapped."
Tristan walks home, stopped at a couple of places first, and continues to walk. Then suddenly, he hears some snapping.
"Huh?"
"Lookout," cried out somebody behind him
Before Tristan could turn around to see who it is, he is pushed away, just before he hit the ground, he hears a very big crash behind him.
Tristan quickly turns around, seeing someone laying on the cement ground, with some large statue on top of him, right where Tristan stood
Whoa, that could've been me, Tristan thought to himself.
Tristan quickly gets up and runs towards the guy who saved his life, "hey somebody call for an ambulance quick."
That didn't work, everybody just keep on approaching, wondering what happened
"Didn't any of you hear me? I said call for an ambulance." Tristan yells out
Then some lady pulls out her cell phone and begins dialing for the emergency room, as someone walks up to check on the guy under the fallen statue. Tristan guesses that he could be a doctor
"He's still alive, but barely," said the doctor
Later, Tristan waits outside of the room, waiting for the doctors to come out. While waiting, he realizes that he's getting hungry. It's almost five-thirty, he usually eats after school, but never got a chance to eat yet.
Then two girls walks up to him, Tristan guesses that it's the mans wife and daughter
"Is this Ishiantzas room?"
"I don't know, the guy in here hurt himself trying to save me."
Then the doctor comes out of the room
"Is this Ishiantzas room?" The wife asks more worriedly
"Yes, he's in a critical condition"
"But he's going to make it, right?" Tristan asks angrily
"Of course, he's going to live, but I'm afraid he won't walk again, let alone his back will remain out for the rest of his life."
The two girls begins crying for their badly injured loved one
"Is there anything that could help him?" Asks the wife
"Yes, there can be an operation done, an American over in America can perform the operation. He's a good Chiropractor so I've heard. But we can't afford to bring him here. The cost of bringing him here, and the cost of the operation is twenty-thousand yin."
"That's outrages, that guy saved my life earlier today and he paid for it, and you're just going to charge him for that?"
"I'm sorry, this isn't the time to explain why we couldn't do the operation"
"Then just do it, I owe this guy one, so I'll pay for the operation, just bill me for it"
"Very well then. You all may go in now to see him, and you young man can meet me up in the front desk in a few minutes to talk about the bill"
As the doctor left, Ishiantzas wife asks him, "oh thank you, how can we pay you back?"
"Like I said, he saved my life, so I'm saving his." Tristan then thought to himself, now to get the money to pay for the operation
Tea headed home for dinner, wondering what her father is cooking. She hangs out with some friends after school on the way home, but lost track of time, and is running home.
Tea runs towards the elevator, repeatedly pushing the buttons. Must be out again, she thought.
Tea heads for the stairs and walks up to her floor, and walks towards her room, on the other side of the hallway after she exits the stairs
Walking down the hall, she makes it to her apartment, realizing something strange, the door is still open.
What's this? Tea begins to think to herself, Daddy would never leave the door open, whether he's in or out, there must be a break in
Tea quietly opens the door, trying to be as cautious as possible, looking into her apartment, seeing that everything's still intact
Then suddenly a strange man in a suit appears in front of her, grabs her and swing her inside, shutting the door behind them
Tea couldn't scream, the man is holding her good, Tea is helpless
The man drags Tea to her parents bedroom, finding two more men in suits, with her father beaten and bruised on the floor, but still alive
"Whose that?" Ask one of the men
"Don't know, she just suddenly appeared at the door," said the man holding Tea
Tea decides to try one of the techniques that Tristan taught her just incase
Tea removes her face from the mans grip, quickly grabs the arms, slides her right foot between the guys legs, and flips the man over her left shoulder, where he couldn't hang on any more
"Get out of here Tea," her father yells out
Tea tries to leave, but two more men in suits shows up at the door
Tea then retreats to her fallen father
"Ooh, a feisty one," said the man Tea flipped
"What's going on? Who are you people?" Asks Tea
The men ignored her, and turn their attention back towards her father, "we'll allow you to make the collection. We'll be watching you, if you or any of your family members try to skip out on us again, we'll kill you and your family."
Then the men leave, leaving Tea helping her father onto his bed, he's all bloody and bruised
"Father, what's going on? Who are those guys?"
Teas father hesitated, "Those men were a member of a mob that I use to work with over ten years ago. But I messed up, and now I owe them a lot of money."
"Ten years ago?"
"That's right, we moved away because of that, not because of a better job like I've told you. It was the only way to keep both you and your mother safe from them."
"How much did you owe them?"
"About forteen-thousand yen"
"You have got to be joking! Seven hundred-thousand yen?"
"I'm sorry about all of this, I got until one weak from this Friday to pay them off. I'll have to figure something out"
Teas father then slump onto his bed, unconcess from the blows he has suffered, Tea then runs off out of her apartment, taking a different set of stairs, not wanting to run into those creeps again
"It seams we all have problems today," Yugi is desperate, he wants to help his mother out, even if he had never met her, not even his grandfather knows why Yugi couldn't meet his mother
"I have got to find Serenity, or I don't know what I'll do." Joey went. "Thanks for letting me watch that program here Yuge, I don't have that channel at my apartment"
"No problem Joey," Yugi sounds like he's not feeling well, a lot is going through his mind.
"I have got to find some way to pay that guy back for saving my life," Tristan went. "He saved my life, now I want to save his, and I don't have the cash to do it, not even close to being a quarter away there"
"Hi guys," Tea walks in, sad and everything
"Tea? What's the matter?" Tristan went
"It's better if you guys don't know," Tea acts as if she saw a dead guy
Tea quietly sits down next to Yugi, and quickly gives him a hug
"Huh? What's this for?" Yugi is surprised, wondering if she heard about his mother
"Nothing, no matter what happens, we'll always be great friends Yugi."
"Hey it's starting," Joey went, turning the mute off
"What's starting?" Tea went
Yugi explained, "Serenity's been kidnapped, and this program is a clue to figure out where he could save her"
"What? That's terrible." On the TV, a man in a suit (reminding Tea of the mobsters) appears, and begins the presentation
"Attention all duelist of the Duel Monsters card game. If you want to compete in the largest tournament ever? Then starting tomorrow we'll begin our registration, and this coming Saturday, the tournament will begin."
"What kind of tournament?" Tristan asks aloud
"What kind of tournament you asks, why it's a full all out tournament, where duelist travel around a metronome size city called Duel City, with hand held holographic simulators built and based by Kaiba Corp. The tournament will then present a possible sixteen-man tournament for up to the first sixteen duelist who survived the elimination round. The runner up winner will win fifty thousand yin, as the grandprize champion will win one million yin."
"Huh? Did he say one million yin?" Tea asks surprised
"That's it, we each have some problems, let us compete in that tournament" Tristan suggested, "and split the money equally to the amount that each person needs."
"Yeah, and not to mention that I bet the Serenity and her kidnapper will be there too" Joey went
"That money will be enough to pay for my mothers operation and Tristan debt"
"Also be enough to pay off my fathers debt with the mob"
That got everyone's attention, putting Tea at a difficult place
"Maybe.It's best not to tell you guys? Hehe" Tea went
Then all four exchange what their problems are, and realize that the grandprize money is enough for both of them, even the runner up, will make it even.
"Alright, Serenity here I come for yah," Joey yells out
"Father, I can save us all," Tea went
"I can pay that mans life for saving mine" Tristan cries out
"Now I can save my mother even though I don't know her" Yugi agrees
Will Yugi and his friends win the prize money, or at least the runner-up prize money?
Who else is competing and what about the tournament?
Can Joey save his sister? Can Tristan pay for that mans operation? Can Tea save her family from the mob? Can Yugi save his long lost mother that he never knew all his life?
Who else is competing?
You'll just have to find out later by keep on reading this fic
Next Chapter: Duel City Registration
Kaiba Corp. is going bankrupt, and the Kaiba brothers are registering for the tournament, to keep the money for themselves. Yugi and others also sign up, learning about all the rules, and some house rules. Yugi and others meet old rivals from the past as they return.
Yugi tries to use his millennium necklace that he got from Ishitzu to locate Serenity in the future. Are the Rare Hunters returning? How will Tristan, Tea and Mocuba compete?
All in the next chapter