Author's Note: Couldn't resist coming in hot and fast with a second chapter.
I don't own Harry Potter or Yu-Gi-Oh!
He had two Locator Cards.
That was the thought that sent a whistling Harry Potter out into the city the following morning. The tournament was finally getting underway and already the streets of the city were crammed with people and their duel disk fighting for the top. Harry couldn't help but smile as a pair of children ran past his legs carrying a card each and making attacking noises with their mouths. It might have been the hand of fate that had pushed a prophecy on him, but it would be days like this that he would fight.
It was still early enough in the morning that he didn't feel rushed to start dueling. The finalists were supposed to be chosen by tonight and as long as he won four more locator cards he would be going to meet the Pharaoh and the Priest to get the justice the people of Kul Elna so sorely needed. Sliding past a pair of lovers who were laughing and enjoying their day as they battled in a tag team duel, he decided to see what Domino City had to offer him.
He passed by quite a few game shops and was surprised to find the one called Kame Game Shop to be closed for the day. He supposed the owner was in the tournament or was rooting for someone involved. He rather wished he himself had someone who could cheer for him but he hadn't bothered to tell anyone he was coming.
"Well, if it isn't Potty."
Harry winced as he heard the sound of one of the very people he didn't want to see, though he never expected to see him all the way in Japan and participating in a muggle dueling tournament. Spinning, he let his crimson cloak billow around his legs as he turned to face the scion of House Malfoy, the ferret faced, platinum haired egotistical buffoon known as Draco Malfoy.
The rich brat was dressed in something that looked like it had come straight from the turn of the century and Harry could do little more than slap his face at the sight of a cummerbund strapped around the Slytherin's stomach underneath an forest green sweater vest. His slacks were at least up to date tan khaki but the silver bowtie was a bit too much.
"Wow, Malfoy, you still sound like a twelve year old," Harry shot back as he braced himself, letting his gold bands jangle on his arms and cloak. "Oh, that's right, your daddy used to write your put downs, didn't he? Hard to get any real zingers through the bars with the Dementors feeding on you in Azkaban."
"Shut up about my father," Draco growled as he switched on his duel disk. "I'm challenging you here and now, Potter. I already got one locator card of some pitiful whelp, that gives me two. I put one up saying that I'll put you out of this tournament Pot-head."
"Now your thinking like a sixteen year old, Draco," Harry said with a gleam in his emerald eyes as he activated his duel disk as well. "The problem is that I have two locator cards as well." He held up the clear glass for the other wizard to see. "So lets make this interesting, shall we? You win, I'm out of the tournament and your that much closer to the finals. I win, and as a handicap I'll let you keep one of your locator cards to try again to reach the top."
"I don't need your handicap you filthy Half-blood," Draco snarled like his name sake. "I'll put both my cards on the line because I know I can stomp you!"
"If your as good at duel monsters as you are at Quidditch, I'd say you'll be back in England crying to your mother before sundown Malfoy," Harry snapped as he slid his new deck into his duel disk. "Now since you challenged me, I'll draw first." He grabbed the first six cards in his deck and pulled them out with a flourish before fanning them in front of his face.
Harry:4000
Draco:4000
"First I play a field spell card, Magical Citadel of Endymion," he said as an extra slot slid from the end of his duel disk allowing him to play the card. The pavement beneath their feet vanished as a massive field of grass came to life beneath their feet. A stone tower erupting from the ground behind Harry as well as several smaller buildings, as ancient runes filled the air to separate Harry's side of the field from Draco's.
"Next, I'll play my Skilled Dark Magician! But he don't be on the field long as I tribute him to summon forth my Dark Magician Girl," Harry called out as bubbles began to float out of the tower behind him. After a few seconds a figure emerged among the bubbles, dressed in a provocative black bustier type top that pushed her breasts up and thigh high black leather boots. Her red hair spilled out of the black cone shaped witches hat that sat upon her head as she twirled a baton that spiraled in on itself at one end.
Dark Magician Girl
Attack:2000
Defense:1700
"Now with Dark Magician Girl on the field, I can activate this, my Sage's Stone," Harry said as he placed the spell card in the zone. The tower behind him began to glow as the spell card began to take effect. "Since my Dark Magician Girl is on the field and I play Sage's Stone, I can now summon a monster from my hand or deck! So Draco say hello to my Dark Magician!"
The card landed on the monster zone and with a loud CRACK, a man appeared on the dueling field. Dressed in a flowing black robe and wearing a black chest-plate underneath. His white hair spilled out from beneath his own cone shaped hat, around his pale blue face and piercing green eyes. He twirled a staff between his two hands, a dark red gem glowing at the end and seeming to draw a circle in the open day air.
Dark Magician
Attack:2500
Defense:2100
Thanks to playing Dark Magician from his Deck, Harry still had three cards in his hand. He inspected the cards thoughtfully, enjoying the wide silver-blue eyes of his opponent as he stared at the two monsters on the field in shock. Removing a card from his hand, he placed it on the Spell/Trap card zone and ended his turn.
"Hmph, you think you are all that Potter, but you're not," Draco called out as he drew his sixth card. "First I'll play Kaiser Seahorse then I'll tribute him for another monster, Guardian Angel Joan!"
A wind swept through the field of grass, the hard light actually forcing a breeze to whip through Harry's hair as the a creature began to descend from what appeared to be the sun over head. A flowing white gown with gold inlaid into the material appeared on ethereal wings with a bob cut of blonde hair and piercing blue eyes.
Guardian Angel Joan
Attack:2800
Defense:2100
"Hahaha," Draco laughed as he looked at his opponent. "Now do you see, Potter? Your Magicians don't hold a candle to my Deck! A measly Half-blood with a sub par deck, I should have known! I don't even need to put a face down, your pathetic monster's can't reach my life points so I'll just end my turn."
Harry was about to reply to the wizard's idiocy but it seemed as though another quirk of fate had stepped in to see it done for him.
"Hey Yug! Come get a load of this mook," a blonde haired boy standing on the sidewalk called out. He was dressed in a light blue shirt with a dark blue jacket over top of it. A pair of dark blue jeans clung to his tall legs that ended in a pair of sneakers. "This guy just summoned a monster, but thinks he's do good for spell or trap cards."
Harry turned to stare at the boy and his eyes widened as he spotted the boy approaching the guy shouting. The multi-colored hair and heavy gold pendant was recognizable anywhere now. It seemed that this bizarre Wizard's Duel had attracted the one called the King of Games, or as Harry knew him, the Pharaoh.
"Shut your mouth," Draco yelled at his fellow blonde, spit flying from his mouth. "You don't know Potter like I do! He's pathetic! I doubt he has a monster in his deck that can match my Guardian Angel Joan just pipe down you stupid muggle!"
"What did you call me," the other blond yelled and started to make his way toward Draco before the smaller figure beside him grabbed him by the arm.
"Jounouchi! We can't just walk into their duel," Yugi said as he tried to pull his friend back. "Who knows what Kaiba will do if you interfere in a duel!"
"Thanks, King of Games," Harry said with a twitch at the words coming out of his mouth. "I'd rather not have to beat the ferret," he smirked seeing Draco whirl to growl at him, "thanks to disqualification. Not when I know I can crush him underfoot like I normally do!"
Drawing his next card he stared at it with a smirk on his face.
"First I'll play the spell card, Spell Absorption! Now, each time either of us plays a spell card, my Life Points will increase by five hundred points," Harry called out as he planted the spell card face up on the field. He pulled another card from his hand and smirked at the wizard across from him. "I'm sorry Draco, but your monster is about to say goodbye," Harry said as he held up a spell card, Mage Power. "Mage Power allows me to equip this to one of my cards, increasing its power by five hundred points for each spell or trap card I control! So now I grant my Dark Magician its true power!"
Harry:4500
Draco:4000
He placed his card on the field just behind Dark Magician as the creature leaned back. An aura of power began to radiate from him as his attack and defense points began to flare upwards.
Dark Magician
Attack:4500
Defense:4100
"What! That's impossible," the Slytherin yelled out in shock as the numbers came to rest.
"And, just to teach you not to mock my magician's again, I play this," Harry called out, revealing another spell card from his hand. "This is Diffusion Wave Motion," he called out as he put the card on the field. Both players watched as Dark Magician's power swelled by another five hundred points, but only Harry noticed his own Life Points having risen to match that of his magician's power.
Harry:5000
Draco:4000
Dark Magician
Attack:5000
Defense:4600
The Dark Magician flew into the air, leaving a wide eyed Dark Magician Girl behind as it began to pool together the shadows of the nearby buildings, its black aura writhing menacingly. With a quick spin, he swung its staff down toward Guardian Angel Joan, the Light monster screaming in pain as was enveloped by Dark Magicians Dark power before exploding.
Harry:5000
Draco:1800
"Now do you see the power in my Magicians, Draco," Harry asked as he watched Dark Magician return to its place beside Dark Magician Girl. "And just think, that was a spell card, now, I can attack you directly! Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl wipe out his life points!"
The two magicians rose together this time, their staves crossed as energy began to crackle between them. A dark swirling vortex began to appear where the two staves met before they swung down toward the blond wizard.
Draco gave out a cry as he turned to run from the two Dark element magicians, only to receive their combined blast across his shoulder blades, sending him sliding across the street they were actually standing on, his cards flying out of the deck zone and graveyard to rain down around him.
"It's a shame really," Harry said as the holograms began to fade around them. He walked toward his downed opponent and moved to sit in the middle of the road, while not sitting on any of Draco's cards. "With those spells I played, I was just two cards short of drawing one of my new monsters. Oh well, I suppose things will just have to play out next time. I believe you owe me two locator cards and your rarest card Draco."
"He takes so much after his father," a woman's voice said causing Harry to look up. It could be said that years in Azkaban had ruined the dark beauty of Bellatrix Lestrange but her sister, Narcissa Malfoy, was drop dead gorgeous. Her black hair was streaked with platinum highlights and spilled down around her heart shaped faced, which Harry noticed look quite a bit like Tonk's, and gleaming amethyst eyes. While Bellatrix's violet eyes had been dimmed by years in prison and such exposure to the horrors of Dementors, Narcissa's still seemed to shine.
Unlike her son who seemed lost in the past, she was wearing a forest green bikini top that seemed to struggle against the weight of her breasts and a long flowing black skirt as if she had been expecting a day at the beach. "Be a dear and if you run into Lucius don't tell him we were here, would you? Not only did Draco take part in a muggle game, he lost to the Boy-Who-Lived, again," she said as she knelt and began to drag her son to his feet.
"As per the rules and the bet Draco and I made he owes me his two locator cards and the rarest card he owns, Mrs. Malfoy, Ma'am," Harry said as respectably as he could while looking at his boots. He had only seen Malfoy's mom at the Quidditch World Cup two years ago, but she had been sitting in the row in front of him, wearing robes that may have flattered her but held nothing to the display he had just admired.
The woman looked down at her son and rolled her eyes. "You know how my son is, Mr. Potter. His deck lost and now he won't want to touch it, he'll come to demanding a new one so he can duel you again at school no doubt," she said with a sad shake of her head. "Take this deck on behalf of the Malfoy Family."
Harry stared as he watched the woman he could only ever consider a MILF from this day forward walk away with her son, and was that a swing in her hips? He shook his head and knelt to begin picking up cards off the street, including the two locator cards he was supposed to get from Draco. Shuffling through the deck, Harry whistled in amazement at some of the cards Draco had managed to collect over the years.
"I guess if you make it to the finals you'll be reworking your deck," a young voice said from beside the Boy-Who-Lived who turned his head to see the King-of-Games staring up at him with happy purple eyes.
"Yeah, this will certainly call for some thinking after I see everyone else duel," he said as carefree as he could as he held out his hand. "I'm Harry Potter by the way."
"Yugi Moto," the tri-color haired boy said with a delighted laugh.
"I'm Jounouchi," the blonde said almost pushing the little guy out of the way to shake his hand. "I got to say, the way you handled that punk was amazing! I don't think I've ever seen the Dark Magician powered up that high! That Dark Magician Girl, that was something else," he said nudging Harry with his elbow as he released a wolf-whistle and moved his hands like to pantomime and hourglass.
"Well, spellcasters are kind of my thing," Harry said reaching back to scratch his head as he laughed. "I still don't know why my magicians look like that though. I mean, they look like all the other cards I've seen but when I summon them, they seem to change into that."
"That is interesting," Yugi said with a smile before pouting. "I was hoping to debut my own Dark Magician Girl during the tournament but I haven't found anyone to summon her against."
"Man, I'd love to see the two of you duel," Jounouchi said with a grin before back peddling, "but maybe we can see it during the finals. I sort of forgot, we were looking for our friends, Honda and Anzu. So, we'll have to catch you later Harry."
"Yeah, I hope to see you in the finals," Yugi said before the two of them began to run off into the crowd leaving the raven haired boy alone.
"Hmph," Harry said quietly to himself as he waved to Yugi and Jounouchi as the two ran off. "That was the boy who shares his body with the Pharaoh. He isn't nearly as arrogant as I would have thought for someone who calls himself the King of Games."
'It's not Yugi we want to beat,' a darker, more mature voice sounded in Harry's head as a ghostly figure appeared beside him. He looked just like the teen standing in the street except possibly older and commanding a darker presence about him. 'We will meet the Pharaoh and the Priest in the finals, Harry, but I feel several dark presences moving through the city as well,' the Thief King said.
"Are we talking Lucius, Bellatrix or Voldemort brand Dark," Harry wondered to the spirit as he began to walk down the street, swiftly moving to the side walk as he continued to make his way through the city. "Also, shouldn't we be looking for the cards that Pegasus sent us after? It would be a good thing to power up our deck if we're going up against the Egyptian Gods."
'The weaker one is around Bellatrix level from what I remember of her,' the Spirit said as it floated alongside the wizard. 'However, I sense a deeper darkness lurking within, Voldemort level easily. The second one, its one I remember well, Harry. We'll need those cards Pegasus sent out if we are going to defeat it.'
"The Ring," Harry said with a nod, not even bothering to think of it as a possible question. "He's another spirit we'll need to beat in order to lay the Items to rest."
As the emerald eyed teen turned a corner he let out an oomph, as he slammed right into another person he hadn't expected to run into, literally or figuratively, knocking them to the ground.
Author's Note: Never insult Harry's cards, lol! Thank you to everyone who put this story on Alert and Favorited! You guys are awesome. I hope you guys continue to enjoy the story! This story will be continuing on through the Dawn of the Duelist arc, but first, I've got to get those cards into Harry's possession, and he's racking up Locator Cards like crazy!
I thought I would start making Harry his own gang to follow him around for the summer. Duelists and standbys included. After all, after Battle City will be Waking the Dragons and World Championship before we move on to Dawn, and Harry traveling the world alone would get kind of boring. So, I'm going to be asking you guys to help me out a bit.
First off though, people I KNOW will be traveling with Harry/Thief: Isis (if I want a Harry/Isis pairing, she'll need to come along), Draco (Rival, oh I have some bad things planned for this), general OotP and DE squads roaming for Harry while he sees the world and duels.
So, here are the people I'm letting be voted for:
Mai Valentine
Alexis Rhodes
Fleur Delacour
Neville Longbottom
Gred and Forge Weasley (imagine if they met Joey/Jounouchi!)
Chazz Princeton
Yusei Fudo
Nymphadora Tonks
Remus Lupin
