Disclaimer: Same as previous chapter.
Please note that I am using cards from later on in the show but I'm not using the special cards from GX, 5D's and Zexal.
Andrew flipped through his deck his uncle had given him, he liked it because of the light monsters and the fairy types, he loved the cute little creatures and admired how tough they seemed to be or at least some of them were and, thanks to his uncle, he had some of the rarest fairy types.
He had managed to get enough money to go to this big thing down in LA for his first real tournament against other people, paid the entry and sat down to his first opponent.
His opponent gave him a disdainful look and said, "You must be new here, you newbies always think you're tops, well," he said, "Time for me to take you down a bit."
As they shuffled their decks Andrew was feeling a little nervous when he suddenly felt a voice from within whisper, "Courage Andrew."
Andrew's eyes turned serious and said, "Well, well, are we going to play or are you going to simply trash talk me until I sob in frustration?"
The man smirked and said well this seems fun but let's play I'll go first and first I'll place these cards face down and play Battle Ox in attack mode.
Andrew looked at his hand, the pharaoh judged that the hand was good. Andrew drew a card and said, "First I play The Sanctuary in the Sky; with this in play I take no damage if my fairy types are damaged in battle and I place these cards face down and play Shining Angel."
"Oh jeez!" The man laughed, "Fairies? You'd like fairies, probably one yourself."
The Pharaoh smiled and said nothing to the man as he soothed Andrew's temperamental anger and watched as the man summoned Des Kangaroo.
As the man attacked with his new monster Andrew was about to counter it when his hand stopped and he took the damage, Andrew put the Shining Angel in the graveyard and countered the Battle Ox's attack with Negate Attack.
"Well, you were lucky," The man smirked, "Your fairies don't cause you to lose life points when my beasts and beast warriors kill them."
"First," Andrew said, "I activate Shining Angel's effect and special summon my Shining Friendship."
"Worthless, worthless!" The man laughed, "You are a newbie, your stupid fairy doesn't even have an effect."
"But," Andrew said with a smirk, "I can now use it to tribute summon Airknight Parshath and second, I activate my trap card, Birthright, to bring back Shining Friendship."
"Okay," the man said, "Your fairies are as dangerous as a firefly."
"Wait one moment," Andrew said with a smirk, "As I have Airknight Parshath attack your Des Kangaroo."
The man sighed and removed his card and said, "Anything else?"
"Yes," Andrew said, "Because your monster was destroyed by my Airknight Parshath I now activate his special ability and draw another card."
As the duel proceeded Andrew suffered some losses but was doing better than he thought he would.
It was close but Andrew won, he stared in shock as the man shook his hand and said, "You got talent for Duel Monsters, I like your type; no one figures fairies for tough monsters but you make them work."
Andrew nearly squealed, his uncle's cards really came through for him and he giggled, maybe he could win this tournament, he probably wouldn't get to the skill level of Mai Valentine, Seto Kaiba or anyone like them but maybe with practice he could get close to that level.
The Pharaoh was impressed, Andrew's deck was strong full of light fairies that suited Andrew's personality and it seemed the fairies adored Andrew but he'd have to put some dark fairies in the deck too.
As he entered another duel Andrew felt the voice guiding him to duelling, it was like he was watching himself play and it was so cool, his magic necklace was totally his lucky charm.
After he won the tournament Andrew looked at his prize: a generous gift of two booster boxes full of cards, he left feeling good about himself.
The Pharaoh smiled at Andrew's eagerness, he would look forward to helping his partner build his new deck and bringing balance though he supposed that the Fairies were alright, he was also surprised at Andrew's restraint at not tearing into the packages holding the other cards, though Andrew's mind was racing, thinking about the possibilities.
When they found their way back to Sunnydale Andrew was walking by himself in Sunnydale when the Pharaoh sensed something following them, he took control and said, "You might as well show yourself."
A man in a bowler hat walked out and said, "You stupid piece of shit geek, you woke some power up and you screwed up plans; my plans and others plans. You are in a whole heap of trouble you little bitch!"
The Pharaoh frowned and as the puzzle began to glow he said, "Be gone demon, you are not welcome here and the boy's destiny is his own."
"You don't understand!" The demon yelled, "You've fucked up so much!"
The Pharaoh suddenly held out a card, said a word and the card began to glow as it turned into Airknight Parshath, the creature looked at the demon who muttered, "Shit! At least you won't interfere with our champions," and disappeared.
Andrew blinked and wondered where the man went, he walked home, ready to open his new cards and wondered why Jonathon didn't play with him now? It happened when he went to university.
'Maybe,' Andrew thought, 'I can find out what happened, but first my new cards.'
As he got home he tore into the card packages, looked at them and said happily to himself, "Alright, Shinato, King of a Higher Plane, alright and Shinato's Ark in the other package," He did his own little version of a happy dance inwardly as he didn't want to wake up his parents.
The Pharaoh watched through Andrew's eyes and nodded inwardly at some of the cards that he'd place in the deck when his host allowed him to take control again.
Andrew looked at the cards and frowned, he didn't want to live in Sunnydale anymore as there was like one guy who played the game and he was insane.
He thought, 'Maybe L.A. could work, I have a bit of money and I know Cordelia lives there.'
'Maybe,' he thought, 'But I can afford my own place if it wasn't too pricy and hey, ads, that'd be nice to look at.'
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