Today was Sunday, making it four days since Stocking went to the Card Buffet, the card shop that Briefers Rock worked at, and it seemed that, ever since she left the shop in anger, she hadn't been able to calm down in the slightest. Garterbelt, an agent of Heaven that is housing her and her older sister Panty, told her to take out a ghost that her sister could of taken out, since she was the one that was slipping her ghost exterminating duties. Instead, her sister made some excuse as to why she couldn't go take out the ghost, forcing Stocking to take out the ghost, which was a waste her precious time.

'The damn thing wasn't even worth three heavens.' After she "purified" the ghost, she found herself staying away from the church and from Brief, though each had a different reason for her avoidance. She was utterly pissed with cleaning up her older sister's problems, especially when it came to her duties as an angel of Heaven, and she knew for a fact that Garterbelt wouldn't defend her reasons, nor would she willingly go against her, hence her reason for staying away from them. She didn't need to get an even worse headache by staying at the church, and she knew that they'd simply ask where she was for most of that day.

Brief, on the other hand, didn't do anything as annoying as what Garterbelt and Panty did, but it was bad in its own right. He gave up, instead of allowing her the pleasure in landing the killing blow for the rest of his life points in the first serious Yu-Gi-Oh card game she ever played, and she had a feeling that he went easy on her. HER! You don't go easy on Stocking Anarchy. If you want to go easy, you go to Panty, everyone knows that. If you mess with her, you have to be yourself in every way, including being blunt and honest, even if its crude and disgusting to the point of making others go green.

She didn't know why it made her so pissed, but what he did irritated her enough to stay away from the card shop. It was a good thing that she always kept her own bank card for emergencies, or else she was sure that Panty would of stolen it and emptied her account long ago. Plus, it also helped that she kept her card in a hidden pocket on the inside of her boots, a place that no regular person or angel would look through for a credit card. So, she stayed at a nice hotel and managed to get one of the service boys working here to give her free sweets whenever she wanted them, allowing her to get maximum comfort during her stay.

Stocking didn't use her days at the hotel to simply relax; however, as she used most of her days to research different deck strategies that she could try to impliment in her own deck. She still had the issue of lowering the number of cards in the deck, but she was sure that what she had wouldn't cause her much of a problem. She looked up the few cards she knew that Geek Boy used and had in his deck and found herself feeling rather lucky that she wasn't that skilled at shuffling her deck, for she was sure that he would of succeeded in his synchro summoning if she had shuffled any differently. Heck, she wasn't even sure if she would of survived if he managed to get out his Xyz monster the first time, as as long as he had that Kunai with Chain waiting for her, it would killed her Evil Hero, forcing her to use her Chaos Necromancers as sacrificial lambs to its slaughter.

It was odd, she realized, that out of the cook books, websites, and TV shows she could of been watching or reading to keep her happy and busy, learning about a card game was filling the role of happiness quite nicely. Still, despite how happy it made her, she found herself currently looking at an odd web page that loaded onto her screen as she came back from the bathroom. Before the new screen came up, it had the card information for Angel 07, an effect Fairy type monster that, when tribute summoned, cancelled the effects of effect monsters on the field. Its uses would mostly depend on what was on both sides of the field, but she couldn't help but to ponder the thought of adding it to her deck, at least to cancel out the effects of Brief's monsters more so than her own.

"Congratulations Stocking Anarchy! You have won yourself a free duel disk, courtesy of the Dueling Corporation Kaiba Corp." Stocking mumbled to herself as she reviewed the information in front of her eyes, trying to spot some type of scam notification from her laptop, or some out of the norm piece of text displayed on the pop up itself. When she realized that she couldn't find anything, she shrugged and began typing in her information, only making the "duel disk", if it truly was one, to be shipped to the Card Buffet, rather than to the church, where Panty and Garterbelt would most likely destroy anything inside in.

On second thought...

"Anyway," Stocking shook her head as she sat up on the hotel bed, "I think its time for me to get out of here and turn back on my cell phone." In order for her to have true peace and quiet, Stocking turned off her cell phone and plucked out the sim card within so no one would be able to track her. She also stayed away from many social networking sites, as she didn't want to get emails and messages from Panty or Garterbelt. She began putting her phone back together, wondering how may calls she got from her sister and Garterbelt, as she was sure that the two would get nothing done without her. She noticed, when her phone was done loading all of its necessary updates, that she had a good number of calls, most of which came from Garterbelt, but there was a caller she didn't expect to see.

Briefers Rock.

Why would he, of all people, be calling her? Where he got her number, she'd never know, but seeing that he called her made her feel various emotions, most of them being negative, with a slight curious thought. If he called, then did it mean that he left her a voice mail? A few clicks of her keypad later, and she was looking at the notification of a single voice mail from the Geek Boy. She looked through the other voice mail notifications and saw that, with the exception of three messages from Garterbelt, Brief was the only one to call. Thoughts ran through her sweets infested mind, thoughts of why he would call her, what he went through to get her number, among other thoughts and questions.

'Well, I won't learn anything as long as I simply stare at my phone.' She pressed the voice mail icon next to his name, and quickly turned on the speaker function. She did have to get dressed out of her pajamas after all, and it was hard to change with a phone pressed between your cheek and shoulder.

"H-Hi Stocking. Its me, Brief. I managed to get your number from P-Panty's phone without her knowing. She came to my house and forcefully dragged me with her in the white van we saw Master G use during the lingerie run in order to help her fight against some ghosts. She dropped her phone during one of the battles and I added your number to my phone. I hope you're not mad at me for calling y-you." Stocking shook her head at the information, wondering how stupid Panty was for involving Brief in a ghost battle. He could do nothing more than provide a distraction, and not even a good one at that. "Apparently you've been gone for several days from the church, and both Garter and Panty have been wanting you to come home. They stopped trying to call when they noticed that it went straight to voicemail, but I, well, I wanted to make sure that you were alright. Call when-"

"Message marked for deletion. There are no more messages from this individual." Stocking quickly got dressed and packed the small bag of things she brought with her with her things. She knew that the card shop wouldn't be open, a piece of information she made sure to remember, so she knew that the only place she would be able to find Brief would be at his house, except she didn't know where he lived.

'Well, maybe I could wait out in front of the card shop and hope for the best?' Stocking nodded to herself as she walked out of her room, taking a glance back to mentally thank the comfortable room for caring for her in her time of need. Since she paid as the days went by, she didn't have to stop at the front desk of the hotel, but took the time to thank the woman at the counter anyway before leaving. See Through wasn't messed with in any fashion, something that made Stocking feel better about her current mission, and quickly left towards the Card Buffet.

She didn't know what was pushing her to see the geek, a person who was below her radar of potential friends on every level. He was a nobody, someone she would not be missing as she left to Heaven, and a slight reason to why people like her, who loved the lolita fashion, were insulted for being cosplaying otaku. He was pathetic, always being so submissive to Panty and her desires, even going to the point of letting her hurt him so she would have something to smile and laugh at, even if it was from such a cruel action.

So why did she want to search him out and ensure that she was okay?

She pulled out her cell phone and dialed his number, hoping that she could meet up with him and get the opportunity to beat him in a card game. It was strange, she pondered, how thinking about beating Geek Boy of all people could make her so happy to see him. Maybe it was because his reactions to everything reminded her of a stock cartoon character? The moment her phone connected to his, she was rewarded with loud screaming, possibly from a movie or a video game, and had to pull her ear away from the device for a few seconds.

"S-Stocking?" She put the phone by her ear once more, and sighed when she heard the screaming die down. "W-what are you calling for? Not that I mind or anything! I'm just surprised you aren't calling-"

"Where are you?" She interrupted, not needing to hear him curve around the topic.

"I'm at home, watching a movie since today is Sunday. Why?"

"Because I want to beat you in Yu-Gi-Oh, and I'm not going to rest until I do so, idiot." Brief chuckled, an odd reaction to her declaration of battle. Was he on some kind of sugar high, since even she knew that Brief was too innocent to smoke the drug? "So I want you to open up the card shop so we can play there. There is no way I'm going to your place Geek Boy."

"Yaaaa, I understand that Stocking, but I'm actually-" Brief stopped talking as the sound of loud knocking caught his attention. "Hold on one moment Stocking." From her end, she continued to drive towards the Card Buffet, listening in on the murmurs and small chit chat Geek Boy was discussing on his side of the phone. It was annoying that he was wasting her minutes, even if she rarely used them in the first place, and she found herself tempted to hang up on him. He could waste his minutes by calling her instead, she figured; however, luck happened to intervine with her choice as Brief returned to the phone.

"Welcome back Geek Boy. Now, what were you saying?"

"You won't BELIEVE this Stocking! I just got myself an actual working duel disk!" That peaked her curiosity, as she remembered the random ad that appeared on her laptop. Did he answer the same thing? If so, when, and how much could she get for selling it online?

"I take it you answered a pop up that appeared on your computer?" She asked. If he got a working one, such as the ones in the show, then she knew that she would be getting hers as well. Though, now that she thought about it, she hoped that it wasn't a trial model and they would be forced to return or buy the proper product once they came out to the public.

"Yea, about three hours ago, and they want me to take them to the Card Buffet! So yes, we can meet over there as well. Its strange, as the man that came to the door said they had a delivery for the shop too, yet I didn't put anything down for an order."

"That was my doing, actually." Stocking replied as she parked See Through a few spots away from the shop. "I didn't know if it was a scam or not, so I put down your shop as the drop off location. Better you to be screwed than I, especially if I told them to deliver it to the church."

"...Thats cold of you Stocking-chan."

"Again with the suffixes Brief? Don't make me rip you apart!" Brief chuckled before telling her that he was already out of the door and would be at the shop in fifteen minutes. This left her enough time to look through her deck, hoping that the slight alterations she made to it would be enough to produce a quicker defeat for Brief's deck. At worst, she took out everything and started building it from the ground up, even if it meant looking through all of the cards she had to do it.

She also wondered if she should make a second deck with her cards, as she was sure that there was something within it her collection that would make a decent deck to use against Brief when he gets used to her Fiend deck. She didn't like the thought, action, or situation of losing, but even she knew that it was always a possibility, and would do what she could to make him lose. Still, now wasn't the time for thinking about a new deck, as she was going to stick to her Fiend deck, and calmed herself down with some chocolate chip cookies she bought yesterday.

Fifteen minutes later, as Brief told her, a long, silver limousine pulled up to the Card Buffet, causing her eyes to trail to the vehicle in hopes of seeing who exactly was interested in the shops around the card shop. There were grocery stores to the left, a video rental shop to the right, and all the way at the corner of the strip of stores was a smoke shop that also served weed infested brownies. When she saw that it was Brief, surprisingly in a green short sleeve button up, and wore black jeans to compliment the shirt. When he developed a fashion sense, she most likely would never know, but she did know one thing.

"That's Kona Tachikagu, the current owner of Tachikagu electronics and technology!" Stocking turned off See Through, grabbed a shopping bag, usually kept in case Panty had to vomit due to over drinking, and filled it with her card tins. She left the car after she grabbed her deck, noticing that she took out the keys, and hurried to the door, where Brief and Kona turned towards her. The tall, fairly young looking man gave her a slight bow, causing her to stop mid-step and smiled.

He was the newest man to take control of the Tachikagu corporation, though that was due to his father, the previous owner of the company, fell ill for unknown reasons. Ever since, the company's focus changed from creating the newest flat screen to reengineering the way games were played by the consumer. Systems like the Nintendo Wii were able to install a projector that gave the player the ability to see things as if they were watching a movie in 3D, but without the glasses, and Sony systems had the latest virus protected software installed into every gaming device. There were some businesses that didn't like the new direction of the Tachikagu corporation, but all of the otaku and shut ins in the world were major fans of the new direction, causing their business to shoot into the skies in profit.

"Ah, I take it you are miss Stocking Anarchy, otherwise known as one of the Anarchy Angels of Daten City, correct?" How he knew of that, she didn't know, but she found herself simply nodding at him. If he knew that, then was it possible he knew of things that, while nothing truly important in the eyes of Heaven, would make it harder for her to live comfortably in Daten City?

"Yes, and am I to understand that I am to be getting a duel disk like Briefers here?"

"Why yes, yes you are! In fact, you're getting a custom model that only you can request for reproduction, as being one of the few that replied to our online posts. Think of it as our way of thanking you for supporting the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise." Stocking walked forward and watched as Kona pulled out a long suitcase and opened it, revealing a device that had the basic shape of the duel disks she saw in Yu-Gi-Oh and the Gx series. What made this device so different was the general shape of it, as it was curved like an angel's wing, which suited the device quite well, with the card slots taking the general shape of feathers. The gauntlet where the score counter, deck slot, and graveyard was located was black with a lace pattern around the corners and edges of it, reminding her of the Gothic dress she favored the most.

"Is...is this really for me?" Stocking asked as she walked closer to the suitcase. When he saw Kona nod, she reached in and grabbed the duel disk, smiling as she placed it on her left arm and tightened the mechanical clamp on it. It felt much lighter than she expected it to be, with most of the weight coming from the card slots on the wing, and moved her arm to various positions, as if she was practicing her katas.

"Not bad is it?" The man asked as he pointed to his limousine. "We're going to deliver several more unique models before heading back to the corporation, as we're preparing to reveal the duel disk system within a few days. Could I trouble you two to show up at the event I wish to hold?"

"I don't mind going," Brief spoke up, "As long as you could promote the Card Buffet somehow. We're going to be one of the reasons the duel disks will sell, correct?" Wow, Brief could act mature and make a proposition as well? Was the world going to end at any moment? Maybe this was all a dream and she'd wake up from it in seconds! Speaking of Brief, she focused on his duel disk and saw that it was shaped like an odd blend between an orange and silver shield that made up for the deck slot, and a gold sword with the hilt being the two parts of the deck slots that met together once in use, most likely a reference to his Warrior deck.

"Of course, of course! Shops like yours always help out both businesses!" Kona shook his hand before turning to her. Why would she go, as all she wanted to do was beat Brief in this damn complicated card game! As soon as she beat him, and made sure that he suffered a bit as well, she'd quit the game forever. Yep, that was her fool proof game plan for her current Yu-Gi-Oh obsessed mind.

Wait...

"I'll go, if you could do me one favor?" Kona nodded, causing her to smirk and point at Brief. She had to word this right, or else the man wouldn't accept her request. "I want you to allow Brief and I to showcase the duel disks at the event by dueling against one another!"

"Sugoi! Wait, WHAT!" Brief screamed out, stepping towards her with his jaw close to the ground. Kono, on the other hand, was smiling as he clapped his hands together. By the look on his face, he liked the idea as much as she did, and was about to agree.

"What a splendid idea Stocking! I'll have to set up some proper seating for our guests, include some complimentary gifts relating to the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, and, Oh!" Kona nodded his head and took a step into his limousine. He pointed at her and Brief before speaking once again. "I can't waste a second longer! Make sure to dress formally you two, and I'll send you two the proper dates and information you'll have to know. Until then!" In a dash, Kono left, nearly causing an accident on the way out of the parking lot, which left Stocking looking at Brief with a cheerful smirk on her face.

"Well, Brief, I'll see you in a matter of days at the big reveal. Be prepared for the worst." With that said, Stocking walked to See Through with the church on her mind. She had to return in order to make sure the dress she wore to what was to be her and Panty's movie was still as divine as it was when she wore it once upon a time, and hurried home. She had days to create the perfect deck, and she wouldn't waste more of her time simply looking at her enemy.

Sadly, she didn't know of the trouble that would be facing her shortly.

-Author Notes-

Hello readers and reviewers! Again, as usual, I don't own P&S, Yu-Gi-Oh, or any other references that I make in this story. I use them for the story itself, and not for my own personal gain. With that said, I can get on to the juicy stuff! I'm glad to see that people are still interested in this story, and I hope to see continued interest in it! This chapter is mostly of Stocking and her emotional view point, though the end of this chapter is a good build up for the next important part of the story. Now, time for review responses!

NoirRenamon: Thank you for your informative review. I will check out the story when I get a chance, and I've never been keen on creating cards. Sure, I created a list of cards for Kyuubi16 for one of his Naruto/Yu-Gi-Oh Gx crosses, but I'm not sure I'd use them myself. As for the Evil Hero deck, make me a deck list and I will try to build one in real life for Stocking to use.

Nightmaster000: Thanks for your review, and yes, if continued past a certain point, Stocking would most likely fall for Brief, unless I get her hooked to her canon boyfriend of a ghost.

Remember readers, your opinions for this story matter, and I do hope to see more responses to the story as more chapters come out for it. If you want a particular person to pick up on the card game, please tell me in a review! I do have a plan for what is to happen if I continue this story past the duel disk reveal plot, but any ideas you readers offer shall be taken into consideration. Thanks for reading everyone! Until next time, and please review!