Okay, so here's chapter 4, where Battle City begins. From here up unto the finals, all the duels that my OCs take part in will be taken from duels in Yugioh GX and slightly altered to go the way I intend them to turn out. Please review, favorite, or follow if you're interested in this story, just no flaming please.


The big day finally here; the day that Battle City started. For once, Kori was up early that morning, making some last minute tunes ups to her deck and deciding what to wear for the tournament. She decided on a dark purple, spaghetti-strap corset tank top with black trim, dark denim skinny jeans, knee-high gray boots, and black biker gloves along with a black choker that had a purple amethyst on it. She also wore her hair down but with a black headband. Tay was wearing a black, sleeveless hooded vest over a gray tee-shirt, dark-colored jeans with a chain on one side, black converse sneakers, and a pair of black wrist bands with blue stripes. They both wore their Millennium Items as key chains, clipped to their belts. Marina stood in front of their house waiting, wearing the same thing as yesterday. Tay was the first one out of the house.

"Morning Marina."

"Morning Tay, you look nice today."

"Really? Thanks. Ya know I gotta try to look my best for my first big tournament."

"That's true." The two of them stood there in awkward silence for bit a before Marina spoke.

"I, uh, wonder what's taking Kori so long."

"Well knowing her, she should be jumping down at any second now."

"Jumping?"

"You'll see." True to what Tay had said, Kori was suddenly standing out her window.

"Hey Marina, catch!" She tossed her Duel Disk out the window as Marina scrambled to catch it.

"Hey, wait! You can't seriously be thinking about-" Kori had leaped out of her window and was falling to the ground. Tay watched on with a smirk while Marina was freaking out.

"Oh my god! Tay don't just stand there, do something!" Marina shouted, but the next thing she knew, Kori was standing right behind her, taking her Duel Disk back.

"Huh?!"

"Kori's been doing that almost every day now when she leaves the house. She's managed to start jumping right to stick the landing almost perfectly." Marina sighed.

"Some things never change."

They took off soon after, heading straight for the heart of Domino City, where they would meet up with the others. Upon arriving, they saw Yugi standing with Mai.

"Hey Yugi, Mai!" Tay called out. "Did we keep you waiting long?"

"Nope, not at all." Yugi replied.

"If anything, Joey's the one making us wait long." Mai added. "Hmm? Who are you?"

"Oh Mai, this is Marina." Kori gestured to Marina behind her. "She's my best friend from back home. She's come to watch me and Tay compete in the tournament."

"Well it's nice to meet you Marina."

"You too, Mai."

"Now I wonder whose butt I should kick first in the tournament." Mai pondered.

"Yugi! I thought I'd see you buzzing around!" An obnoxious voice called out.

"Well if it isn't Rex Raptor and Weevil." Mai pointed out as the two duelists approached. "I thought I smelled something."

"I'll never forget how you played me like a chump-asaurus at Duelist Kingdom, Mai!" Rex shouted. "Now it's payback time."

"Wow. He really likes using dinosaur puns, doesn't he?" Marina asked. Yugi laughed awkwardly.

"You don't know the half of it."

"Hehehehehe! And Yugi, next time we duel, you won't be so lucky." Weevil taunted. "My deck is infested with rare and powerful insects! Ehehehehe!"

"Gross." Marina grimaced.

Suddenly, an older young man was behind Weevil and had him in a head lock. It was Mako Tsunami, the ocean duelist.

"Those are large words coming from such a small guppy." he said.

"Mako Tsunami?" Yugi pointed out.

"If anyone will be making waves, it will be me!" Mako released Weevil from his hold.

"You think you'll win this tournament?!"

"Of course, there's nothing that can withstand my mighty denizens of the deep!"

"Your sardines will be crushed by my dino-horde." Rex chimed in.

"Don't be so sure. My brand new Fortress Whale card is much mightier than your Twin-Headed King Rex."

"Well I have a monster far superior to be Great Moth." Weevil taunted. "But don't think I'll tell you what it is." Mako suddenly grabbed Mako and started shaking him furiously.

"Well maybe I can just shake it out of you, Weevil!" Tay, Kori, and Marina just watched the whole exchange, dumbfounded.

"Well they certainly have some...'interesting' friends." Tay said.

"At least they have unique personalities." Marina offered.

"What a bunch freaks." Kori said point blank.

While this was going on, the Rare Hunter from the other night sat a few feet away at a Café, viewing a computer with all of the duelists' stats.

"Heh, their rare cards will make fine additions to my master's collection. The only question is: which card should I acquire first."

After arguing a bit more, Mako, Rex, and Weevil ran off in different directions. Mai watched them all with disgust as ran, before deciding to take off on her own too.

"Yugi, I think I'll head off. Remember, next time we meet, we're rivals. And the same goes for you too, Tay and Kori." Yugi nodded.

"Right." he laughed. Mai then took off.

"See ya round Mai." Kori called out.

"Well Yugi, since everyone else is heading out to scout the area, I think we should too." Tay said.

"Okay then, best of luck to the both of you."

"Yeah and right back at you too, Yugi." Kori replied. "Cuz when it comes to the finals, I plan on taking you on!"

"Yeah right! As if you could beat Yugi, he's the King of Games." Marina said. Kori glared at her as they all walked off.

"What, you don't think I could take him?"

"Nope." Tay added.

"What?! Some brother you are!"

"Anyway, Kaiba should be announcing the tournament soon, so we should probably get ready to start at any moment now."

"Good point."

"Greetings duelists, and welcome to Battle City." Kaiba's voice came on across the city like a loud speaker. A large shadow started covering the streets of Domino. The trio looked up and gasped at what they saw.

"What the?!"

"Is that a blimp?!"

"Give you one guess who's it is." Kori snarled. Appearing on a large screen attached to the blimp, Kaiba gave an overview of the tournament, the rules, the duel disks, the ante rule, how you need six locator cards to make it to the finals, and how only 10 competitors can make it to the finals. After all that, Kaiba gave the word and the tournament officially began.

"Okay girls, I think I'm taking off now too." Tay said. Marina looked disappointed.

"Really? You're leaving us Tay?"

"Yeah. Cuz right now, Kori and I are rivals. It wouldn't be right to hang around with her and watch her strategies." Kori nodded in agreement.

"Exactly what I was thinking? It wouldn't be fair if I saw all of your new cards during the tournament before we face off. So until then, don't go losing to anyone." She put out her hand.

"No chance of that happening." He grabbed her hand for a moment before taking off.

"Well, I guess it's time to go find my first opponent."

Kori and Marina roamed the city for a bit, searching for someone to challenge Kori to a duel. But every duelist they came across just stood there and avoided eye contact with her.

"Pft, what's with all these guys? They're supposed to be the toughest duelists? Not one of them has even tried challenging me." Kori plopped herself down on a bench ans Marina leaned on it next to her.

"Why don't you challenge someone then? It'll be a lot quicker than waiting around for someone else to come strolling up and asking for a duel." Kori sighed.

"Yeah, you're probably right. Let's get going and find someone." Kori got up and was ready to walk off when someone stopped her.

"You! I want revenge for how you humiliated me at the arcade!" The thug from earlier in the week was standing right in front of Kori with a duel disk on his arm. He had a determined expression.

"Kori, you know this weirdo?" Kori looked at the guy for a while, trying to remember him.

"Nope, never seen him before in my life."

"What?! Are you saying you forgot about me?"

"Nah, I'm just messing with you." Kori laughed it off. "You want a duel? You got one!" She activated her duel disk and took a battle-ready stance. The thug also activated his duel disk. They both drew five cards and gained 4000 life points.

"Go Kori! Take this creep down!" The thug smirked.

"Since I'm such a gentleman, I'll let the lady go first!"

"So then go already." Kori taunted as the thug drew a card.

"Very funny." He wasn't amused. "I summon Giant Orc in attack mode! (2200/0) You're turn!"

"My move." Kori drew a card. "I'll start by discarding my Harpie Queen to the graveyard in order to add this card to my hand." Kori picked a card from her deck and reshuffled it. "Harpie's Hunting Ground, and then I'll activate it!"

"What does that do?" The thug asked as the surrounding area turned into a mountainous field. Kori smirked

"With this field spell out, every winged-beast type monster I play gains 200 attack points. But for now, I'll banish my Harpie Queen in the graveyard in order to special summon Silpheed in defense mode. (1700/700) And then I'll summon Harpie Lady in defense mode, who gets a power-up thanks to the field. (1500/1600) And this specific Harpie increases the attack of all my WIND monsters by 300! (Silpheed 1900/900) (Harpie Lady 1800/1900) Then I'll end my turn."

"Is that the best you can do?" The thug drew a card. "Now Giant Orc, attack her Silpheed!" The orc swung its bone club and smashed Silpheed, destroying it.

"Thank you for that. When you destroy Silpheed, you have to discard 1 random card from your hand!" A gust of wind picked up and blew a card out of the thugs hand and right into his graveyard. "And I know that whenever Giant Orc attacks, he switches to defense mode!"

"Well that's usually the case, but since I equip Giant Orc with Second Goblin, I can switch him back into attack mode!" A small goblin appeared behind Giant Orc, barking orders at him, "Your turn." Kori drew a card.

"Perfect! I equip Harpie Lady with Cyber Shield, which raises her attack even more. (2300/1900) So now I'll switch Harpie Lady to attack mode and destroy your Orc!"

"Oh no!" Harpie Lady jumped forward and slashed Giant Orc and destroyed him and the Second Goblin.

Thug: 3900 LP

"Alright! You go girl!" Marina cheered on.

"Your move!" The thug drew a card.

"Now I'll summon Goblin King in attack mode. (0/0)"

"Why would you summon a monster with 0 attack points?"

"And now, I'll special summon three Half Goblins in defense mode by discarding three warrior-type monsters from my hand. And my Goblin King gains 1000 attack points for every fiend-type monster on the field! (3000/0) Now go, attack her Harpie Lady!" The Goblin King struck the Harpie, destroying her.

Kori: 3300 LP

Kori drew a card.

"First I'll summon Harpie Channeler to the field in attack mode! And don't forget, she gets a power up with my hunting ground! (1600/1500) Then I'll use her effect. By discarding a Harpie card from my hand, I can special summon any Harpie card from my deck that I want. And I chose Harpie's Pet Dragon! And since Harpie Channeler counts as a Harpie Lady card, my dragon gets a power up! (2300/2800)"

"That's not gonna help you!"

"It will when I play this card, Lightning Vortex!"

"No!"

"Yes! By discarding one card from my hand, I can destroy all face-up monsters on your field. So say good-bye to all of your Goblins," Kori said as all of the thug's goblins were struck by lightning and disappeared, "And now you're wide open to attack! Harpie Channeler attack!" The channeler shot a burst of wind from her staff.

Thug: 2300 LP

"And now my dragon, attack him and finish this duel!"

Harpie's Pat Dragon shot a fireball at the thug, throwing him back and depleting his life points.

Thug: 0 LP LOSE

"And with that, you lose!" Kori snapped her fingers as the holograms all disappeared. Marina ran up to her and gave her a high five.

"All right! That's my girl!"

Kori walked over to thug and stood right in front of him as he stood up.

"Since I won, hand over your locator card and your rarest card." She demanded as she held out her hand.

"Yeah right!" The thug jumped back. "If you think I'll accept defeat from you again, you're crazy!" Marina walked over to the two of them.

"Give it up man. You lost fair and square and the rules say you have to give your locator card up to Kori."

"Well I'm playing by my own rules." He snapped his fingers and a whole gang of thugs surrounded the two girls suddenly. Marina moved closer to Kori and grabbed her arm.

"Oh man, what do we do now?" Kori just glared at the leader.

"Haha, what are you gonna do now little girl?"

"Why don't you just admit defeat and walk while you still have your pride? Well what's left of it anyway?"

"Not a chance!" The leader lunched forward, readying a punch straight at Kori. Marina flinched while Kori just stared the guy down. Suddenly, a die shot out from seemingly nowhere and struck the guy right in the forehead.

"What was that?" He rubbed his forehead and turned around. A guy stood there, bouncing dice in his hand.

"I think the ladies asked you to walk away." He had emerald eyes showing underneath long, jet-black hair tied in a ponytail. He wore a red vest and a black sleeveless shirt, red pants, black and red sneakers, and a black and read head band. He also wore several pieces of gold jewelry and dice earrings.

"What do you want pretty boy?"

"Like I said, the ladies asked you to leave."

"Just stay out of this! This has nothing to do with you!"

"Oh but I'm afraid it does. You see, whenever there's a lovely girl being threatened, it's my job to step in and save the day." The guy winked at Kori, who grimaced and slightly blushed.

"Wow, what a cutie!" Marina exclaimed.

"What's with this guy? Weirdo." Kori questioned.

"Well you're gonna wish you never messed with us." The thug started. "Get him boys!" The gang started charging forward, but the guy didn't seem afraid. In fact, he seemed just the opposite. His cocky grin became a fierce scowl as he started flicking dice with great power at the gang members. Under the barrage of dice, the gang members started running away, covering their heads for protection.

"Hey, where do you think you're going?! Get back here you cowards!" The thug commanded, but none of them returned.

"Looks like all of your 'friends' abandoned you." The guy took a step forward. The thug backed away in fright, but ended up backing into Kori. She tapped his shoulder.

"Huh?" He turned around.

"Boo!" Kori shouted as she decked the thug right in the face, knocking him down and out.

"Well he got what he deserves." Marina said as she walked over the the thug's unconscious body and fished out his locator card from his jacket.

"Here ya go Kori."

"Thanks. Now with this, I'm one step closer to reaching the finals!"The guy then walked over to the two girls.

"Finals? I take it you girls are in the Battle City tournament?"

"Well she is, I'm just a cheerleader. Thank you by the way, I don't know what we would've done if you hadn't shown up. I'm Marina by the way, and this is-"

"Kori Ardent." The guy interrupted, confusing the girls.

"How do you know my name?" Kori stared at the guy, trying to recognize his face. "He wait a minute! Aren't you in my class? Yeah, you're that guy that the girls are always going crazy over. It's...uh...something with a D, right?" The guy smirked.

"It's Devlin…Duke Devlin. I'm flattered such a cute girl remembered me." He gave Kori a wink. She had a slight blush that she tried to hide, but Marina noticed.

"W-well, whatever. Thanks again, but we gotta go." Kori pushed past Duke, grabbing Marina's arm and taking off.

"Hey, wait up a sec." Duke called after them. "As a gentleman, it's my duty to protect young maidens such as yourselves."

"Oh my." Marina was enjoying this.

"Oh brother. Gentleman isn't exactly the word I would use. More like playboy."

"Ouch, that hurts Kori. And here I thought we had a spark." Duke said flirtatiously.

"So you're not gonna leave, are you?"

"Not likely."

"Fine whatever." Kori started storming off, followed by Duke. Marina watched the two and giggled impishly before following after them.