Set Sail for Duelist Kingdom
I don't own Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh
"Hey Dai, a video came in the mail." Joey said walking over to Daisuke who was sitting in front of the tv in their apartment.
"Who is it from?" Daisuke asked taking the tape and putting it in the VCR and playing it and to the sibling's shock a girl with an orange hair just like Daisuke's only a shade lighter with bright green eyes appeared on the screen. "Serenity." She whispered.
"Hey big sis, little bro. How have you both been? I can't believe it's been six years since we've seen each other. I'll never forget the day mom took me to live with her." Serenity said making Daisuke look at the ground sadly while Joey held her hand comfortingly. He was young when his parents got divorced so he didn't remember much, only that Daisuke ran after their mother's car as she drove off with Serenity in the back seat. "I'm sending you both this message so that you don't forget your sister's face, I'm running out of time. I thought I would be able to see you both again…before…well you know…take care of Joey big sis, goodbye." Serenity said before the tape ended.
"Running out of time…no…it can't be." Daisuke whispered clenching her fist as tears began falling down her face. "Serenity…"
Meanwhile with Yugi, he was walking home from school alone and when he arrived at the Kame Game shop he saw an envelope in the door. "What's this?" he thought taking the envelope and opening it to see several cards inside. "It's from Pegasus." he then pulled out one card and his eyes widened. "It's an invitation to the Duelist Kingdom Tournament."
The next day at school in class he had the cards out in front of him on his desk with Tea, Tristan and Daisuke around him. "I can't believe Pegasus is forcing you to go to his tournament to rescue your grandfather's soul. Why is the world full of monsters like him?" Daisuke asked.
"I know, but what choice do I have?" Yugi asked his friends. "This may be the only way to save my grandfather."
"If that's the case, then you're not going without help." Daisuke told him with a smile making her friend smile back. Tristan picked up two of the cards and read what was on them.
"Hey, it says here that the winner of the tournament will win a grand prize of three million dollars." He said aloud before Daisuke grabbed the card which had the treasure on it and she smiled slightly.
"Three million dollars…that's enough for Serenity's operation." She whispered before she caught herself and coughed but her friends heard it.
"You can take that card if you want Daisuke, surely they'll let you onto the boat if you show them the card." Yugi told his friend and her eyes widened.
"You mean it?" she asked and Yugi nodded before Daisuke picked him up in a bone crushing hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you. You're the bestest chibi-friend a girl could ask for."
"Hey…take it easy…" Yugi grunted out as he felt a few of his ribs breaking. "And I'm not a chibi." He added, Daisuke giggled and released him from her hug and he glared up at her.
"Sorry about that, this means a lot to me. And yes, you are a chibi." She chirped with a wide grin which only made Yugi pout and glare at her more. At the end of the day, Daisuke was sitting on the roof of the school looking up at the sky before she noticed Yugi sit beside her.
"Weren't you supposed to pick Joey up from his school?" he asked her with a smile.
"I asked Tristan to do it for me, Joey knows sometimes I hang out up here to think. He knows where the spare key is, so he can get into the apartment alright." She answered looking at him. "Yug, I want to thank you again for letting me have that card. It means a lot to me."
"That's what friends do, we help each other out." Yugi said with a smile and she nodded. "You remember when we first became friends?"
"Yeah, when Ushio was trying to get me to do favours for him, but I refused. When that happened he began to beat me up, you found us and stepped in and didn't back down. Even though I had only just transferred from Odaiba you didn't think twice about helping me." Daisuke answered with a smile.
"Well I couldn't let Ushio beat you up and get away with it." Yugi told her. "By the way, if you don't mind me asking…why did you transfer from Odaiba to Domino?" he asked. Daisuke looked at him and sighed.
"Long story, but the short answer is…I had some friends at the school…we did a lot of things together, but one bad thing after another happened and we had a falling out…well it was between me and two of my friends…make that former friends." She answered.
"I'm sorry to hear that, what were their names?" Yugi asked.
"Takeru Takaishi and Yolei Inoue. Since I met them I never got along with them all the time, TK kept acting like I wasn't on his level and Yolei was just a brat who thought she was always right, we argued almost constantly. I would have left if not for some of my other friends who managed to make things tolerable. But one day it all just boiled over…I lost a friend and Yolei and Takeru couldn't understand my loss and keep quiet, I lost it. I unloaded all my frustrations on them and said I wanted nothing more to do with them and the rest is history. My father helped me transfer schools the next day." Daisuke explained softly.
"I'm sorry…I never knew." Yugi whispered but Daisuke smiled and shook her head.
"Don't be sorry, I'm glad I'm here. I've got my brother plus new friends in you, Tristan and Tea. I think I'll be fine." She told him. "Now all we gotta do is get onto the boat and get to Duelist Kingdom to save your grandpa."
Two nights later the boat to Duelist Kingdom was ready to depart, all the duelists chosen to compete stood on the dock looking up at the massive ship in awe. "Attention all duelists, you have each been chosen after close observation of your dueling skills. When asked you must present your starchips that you were given with your invitation to board." One of the guards told the gathered group. Daisuke stood in front of Yugi and both walked up to the desk where another guard was sitting.
"Starchips please," one of them said, Daisuke reached into her pocket and pulled out the card Yugi gave her.
"Is this enough to get on?" she asked the man with a smile who looked over his sunglasses at her. "I mean this is one of the invitation cards, right?"
"It is, but that is not what we asked for. Do you have your starchips or not?" the man asked and Daisuke pouted before she looked at Yugi and smirked before turning back to the man with puppy dog eyes with the trembling lip and single tear.
"I'm sorry sir, but I lost them. Can you pwease allow me to board the boat, I promise not to cause any trouble." She cooed and Yugi looked away knowing that if he looked into those dreaded puppy dog eyes he'd be toast.
"Uh…well…uh…" the guard stuttered before he coughed. "As long as you promise to not cause an incident you can board. Now go before I lose my job for cutting you slack." He whispered and Daisuke grinned.
"Thanks." she chirped running onto the boat and Yugi followed once showing his starchips, on the other side of the dock where the supplies for the ship were being loaded, Tristan and Tea snuck into a cargo container when nobody was looking.
"Are you sure this will work?" Tristan asked her.
"Of course, it'll work, now be quiet." Tea answered before both heard someone else shush them and they turned and saw Joey sitting in the container. "Joey!?"
"Yeah, it's me, now shush. I heard Dai talking to herself about getting on the boat and I'm going with her, she's my big sis and I need to protect her." the blonde said.
"I'm sure the older sibling is meant to protect the younger one." Tristan told him before the container shook as it was attached to the crane and lifted onto the boat.
"Well I'm here now, so you can't stop me." Joey said with a grin.
"Dai's gonna kill us, isn't she?" Tea asked with a sweat-drop.
"When she finds out we let her brother sneak onto the ship with us, definitely." Tristan answered with a sweat-drop of his own. Soon the supplies and everyone was on the ship as it set sail for Duelist Kingdom, Daisuke and Yugi walked along the ship looking at all the other participants in the tournament.
"This is so cool, I've never seen so many duelists before." Daisuke said leaning against the rail with Yugi.
"Same here, it's a good thing we both brought backpacks." He said as both he and Daisuke had decided to bring backpacks along to the tournament.
"Can never be too prepared is what an old friend used to say. For all we know there won't be any place to get food once we reach the island." Daisuke replied, Yugi nodded before he reached into his pocket and put something in Daisuke's hand. She looked at him before opening her hand to see a starchip.
"Just in case you need one, we don't know what happens if you don't have any starchips when on the island yet." Yugi explained and she smiled and pulled him into a hug before pocketing the starchip.
"Thanks, Yugi, now we better keep quiet before someone finds out we've only got one starchip each." Daisuke whispered, unknown to both someone did overhear them and walked over to them and chuckled making both turn to see a woman with blonde hair wearing a white tube top, purple skirt and purple jacket which was open allowing people to see her cleavage.
"So, you're that Yugi Moto kid, it's hard to believe that you beat Seto Kaiba. You're famous you know." She told Yugi with a smile making him chuckle nervously.
"Thanks very much…I think." He replied while Daisuke frowned at the blonde and pushed her away from Yugi.
"Could you back up? You're making him nervous, just who are you anyway?" she asked and the blonde smirked.
"The name's Mai Valentine." She answered before turning back to Yugi. "Here's some free advice kiddo, cut your friend loose, she's fashion challenged and deserves to be crushed by everyone on the island." She told him before walking off with a smirk and Daisuke growled.
"Oh, she's going down. She reminds me too much of Yolei with her attitude."
"Can you not get into trouble before we get to Duelist Kingdom? You can settle it in a duel ok?" Yugi asked and Daisuke nodded, they then walked into the ship following the other duelists while Tea, Tristan and Joey hid nearby.
"Big sis is gonna crush that chick." Joey said with a confident nod while Tristan and Tea shared a concerned look. Back inside the ship the duelists were shown their sleeping quarters and it was nothing fancy.
"No beds, I've slept in worse conditions." Daisuke said and Yugi nodded, both then saw Rex Raptor and Weevil Underwood walking into the area.
"Hey, aren't you that kid Yugi?" Weevil asked Yugi who nodded and walked over to him and Rex followed by Daisuke.
"I am, congratulations on winning the Regional Championship," Yugi answered and Weevil smirked.
"it was nothing," he said.
"I went easy on him." Rex said with a shrug.
"I see. Well Yugi and I look forward to dueling you both on the island." Daisuke told them with a small bow.
"To tell you the truth winning the last championship wasn't that big of a challenge, I'm sure I'll enjoy myself when I duel the duelist who defeated Kaiba. Frankly, I look forward to it." Weevil said adjusting his glasses.
"I look forward to it too." Yugi said.
"I'm looking forward to some dino demolition," Rex said with a smirk.
"Let me tell you a little secret that none of the other players know yet," Weevil whispered to Yugi.
"But isn't that cheating?" he answered and Weevil chuckled.
"They'll all find out soon enough, I've heard there are certain new rules on the island that require more strategy." He informed Yugi and Daisuke while Rex scoffed.
"Rules are for wimps, you either smash through your competition or get smashed yourself. It's one or the other." He said.
"You also need to combine your monsters with other cards, otherwise you won't win." Daisuke told him.
"Stay out of my business. Or I'll crush you," Rex snapped before walking off making Daisuke frown.
"We'll see who crushes who when we get to the island." She muttered before noticing several of the other competitors trading cards and she walked over. "Seems they're trading, maybe I can get some more cards for my deck." She thought taking out her cards and she began trading some of her cards for better ones.
"Looks like Dai is trading," Yugi said with a smile but Weevil chuckled.
"She must be desperate if she thinks that she's going to be able to improve her deck enough to win the tournament." He commented.
"Man, I'm freezing my butt off," Joey said shivering from the cold before he saw Tea squirming. "What's with you?"
"I need to go to the bathroom." She whimpered making both males gulp and turn their backs to her. "I'm not going with two boys around!" she shouted.
"I'm a kid, I'm too innocent to think things like that," Joey complained before a door opened and the trio hid again and saw a boy with white hair walk out onto the deck.
"It's Bakura," Tea said in surprise.
"Bakura? You mean the guy from our class?" Tristan asked peeking around the corner to see the boy looking at the ocean.
"What's he doing here?" Tea asked.
"Maybe he's here for the tournament." Tristan answered.
"What do you think Joey?" Tea asked looking at Joey only to gasp as she saw Joey was missing. "Joey?" she asked looking around frantically and Tristan did as well before they saw Joey sneak into the boat before Bakura walked back inside. "Oh, we're so dead!"
"Hey Yugi, look what I got from trading some of my old cards." Daisuke said as she and Yugi sat at a table on another deck, Daisuke placed the three cards she got on the table and Yugi smiled.
"A Salamandra magic card, a Kunai with Chain trap card and a Shield and Sword magic card. Nice work, those cards will make great additions to your deck." He told her and Daisuke smiled. "We're almost there, soon we'll be able to save my grandpa." He said looking out at the ocean.
"I'll help you save your grandpa, I promised after all. Though I wonder why Pegasus is interested in your Millennium Puzzle." Daisuke said as she grabbed Yugi's puzzle before she yelped and pulled her hand back and saw her birthmark which was oddly the same shape as the eye on the puzzle glow red and she felt it heat up.
"What's wrong?" Yugi asked as the birthmark stopped burning.
"It's nothing, static shock or something." She answered looking at her birthmark. "Odd, it's never done that before."
Before Yugi could ask any more questions, they heard something around the corner, Daisuke walked over as Yugi watched and he heard a scream and ran over, his eyes widened as he saw Daisuke holding Joey's ear as the young boy yelped in pain.
"Joseph Alexander Wheeler, just what do you think you're doing on this boat?" Daisuke asked her brother angrily.
"Ow, stop it. That hurts Dai." Joey said trying to break free from his sister's grip until she let go. "What's the big deal?" he asked rubbing his ear.
"You snuck onto the boat, I can't believe you'd be so reckless. I asked Tristan and Tea to take care of you until I got back." Daisuke answered.
"Tristan's here too, so is Tea." Joey told her making Daisuke and Yugi share a look.
"Ok, when I see them…they're dead." Daisuke said cracking her knuckles angrily. "I never thought they'd let you sneak onboard with them." she began muttering to herself while pacing back and forth.
"Well we can't do anything about it now." Yugi told his friend with a smile and she sighed and nodded before walking back to the table with Yugi and Joey following. "Oh, I almost forgot, here's a card that might come in handy in a tight pinch Daisuke." He added once they sat at the table, he opened his backpack and pulled out a small chest that contained his deck and he handed her a card.
"The Time Wizard." She said looking at the card before smiling. "Thanks, Yug, seems you always look out for me."
"Don't mention it," Yugi replied as Joey reached into his pocket.
"Hey Dai, I got some cards for you too." He chirped handing four cards to Daisuke who took them.
"Red Eyes Black Chick, Red Eyes Baby Dragon, Red Eyes Wyvern and Flame Swordsman." She said reading the names of the monsters. "How'd you get these?" she asked her brother who grinned.
"Some chump at school challenged me to a duel, he thought that he could beat me again since I used to lose all the times. He put those four cards up for grabs, and thanks to Mr Moto's training I won the duel and the cards." He explained making his sister smile and ruffle his hair.
"Nice work squirt, be sure to thank Mr Moto when we get his soul back from Pegasus." She told him.
"You got it," he replied, the door to the deck opened and the siblings and Yugi saw Weevil walk over and he smirked.
"We meet once again; did you trade for any new cards Yugi?" he asked him.
"Nope. I'm going to duel with the cards I already have." Yugi answered.
"I see," Weevil replied. "May I see the Exodia cards you used to defeat Kaiba? They are the most powerful cards in the entire game."
"And the rarest." Yugi added.
"Why do you want to see Yugi's Exodia cards?" Daisuke asked Weevil curiously and he smiled.
"I just want to look at them, I've never seen them in person before." he answered.
"I don't see the problem, just be careful with them ok?" Yugi asked and Weevil nodded but Daisuke didn't like the smirk that was forming on his face as Yugi handed him the five Exodia cards.
"So, these are the Exodia cards, for so long I've tried to think of a strategy to defeat them, but I had no luck. Until just now." Weevil whispered before he turned around and walked to the rail.
"Hey, what're you doing?" Joey asked running just as Weevil laughed and threw the cards over the side of the boat.
"No!" Yugi shouted running to the rail with Daisuke and they saw the cards fall into the ocean while Weevil cackled and walked off.
"Now nobody can stop me."
"Those were the Exodia cards my grandfather gave me." Yugi said watching the cards floating away, Daisuke was about to jump into the water to grab them before Joey beat her too it.
"Joey!" she screamed watching as her younger brother landed in the ocean and began swimming after the cards. "Get back here right now!" she demanded.
"No way! I'm not gonna let Weevil get away with this." Joey said as he grabbed one of the Exodia cards and kept swimming. "The current sure is strong though." He thought before a wave washed over him.
"Joey!" Daisuke shouted jumping over the railing after her brother and she swam towards him quickly. "Those cards aren't worth drowning over."
"But they're Yugi's cards, his grandpa gave them to him." Joey told her.
"I know, but Yugi can still win duels without those cards." Daisuke replied before swimming back to the boat holding Joey with one arm and a rope ladder dropped down to them and both saw Tea and Tristan were the ones who threw it down. "Great timing." Daisuke grabbed the ladder and Tea and Tristan pulled them up onto the deck.
"Are you two ok?" Tea asked them as Yugi ran out a door and over to them.
"We're ok, thanks for your help." Daisuke answered with a smile which slowly morphed into a frown. "Now explain to me why the heck you two decided to sneak onto the boat instead of looking after my brother like I asked you."
"Um…well…you see…" Tristan stuttered as Daisuke glared at him.
"It doesn't matter now. But you two better look after my brother the next time I ask you to babysit him instead of sneaking onto another ship." She told him and Tea both who gulped and nodded.
"I'm sorry Yugi," Joey muttered as he handed Yugi the only Exodia card he managed to save while looking at his shoes before Yugi placed his hand on his shoulder.
"I don't care about the cards, they're not as important as your life." he told him with a smile. "We couldn't have known Weevil would do anything like that, but I'll make sure he answers for what he did when I duel him."
"Well said," Daisuke said as got on her knees and pulled Joey into a hug. "Don't you ever do something like that again, I was so worried about you." She whispered as Joey hugged his big sister back with his face in her shoulder. "Don't worry about Serenity, I'm going to win this tournament and the prize money to pay for her operation."
"You promise?" Joey asked and she nodded.
"I promise, you know I never break promises if I can help it." she told him as the sun began rising over the horizon and in the distance the group could see an island.
"There it is, Duelist Kingdom." Yugi said. "That's where we'll find Pegasus."
"We'd better get ready, something tells me that we'll be in for a rough time on the island." Daisuke said standing beside him with her brother holding her hand.
The end of the chapter
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