Chapter Three

A/N: I am sure everyone knows the events of Goblet of Fire, so I just had to skip pass the whole thing. The Battle City Tournament is just like before only the Life Point counters are 8000, like the game versions or in real life card duels. Sure it focuses on Battle City, but there will be only a few replays of several canon duels. Otherwise, most duels happen as before. This chapter is a bit short, but it's a start to Battle City.

"Can't believe how exciting this tournament will be..."

"Oh stop Harry, you're starting to sound like a fangirl," the fifteen year old replied. Her birthday was March 4th, so it was possible for her to be a year older than Harry, who had to wait until July 31st to celebrate turning fifteen. For that comment, Harry had tackled her and began tickling her sides, causing the girl to squeal. In the months that passed, their clothing style had changed to better suit their personality.

Harry wore a pair of dark beige jean shorts that cut around below the knees. The shirt was long-sleeved, black and goldenrod-striped, with a forest green bomber jacket with zipped pockets over the biceps and front, which the jacket is left unbuttoned. His raven black hair had grown out slightly, but was now tamed with few green-dyed dreadlocks. His emerald eyes were hidden behind a pair of slim glasses, the wiring made of dark green, had black socks and his brown sneakers were hiking material shoes made for mountain climbing. For Cassie, she wore a medium-size purple jean skirt, and a black leather belt with a bloomed red rose for the belt clasp. She wore a baggy mesh tank, but to cover her assets she wore a long black silk strap that wrapped around her upper chest, but made to fit comfortably. On her right forearm was pink fishnet stocking that reflected the color of her eyes. Her hair was styled after her mother; long and like a silky curtain of dark violet curly locks. For footwear, she wore lavender socks and powder blue sneakers with white faux orb jewels sewn into the sides. She too wore glasses of a thin frame, made of rose colored wiring.

Of course they stopped fooling around when on the TV the announcement that started the tournament went off. They had worked on a plan, to win the needed amount of Locator Cards, which was six, in order to advance in the tournament and that was through the styling's of teamwork. All across the world, people came in order to participate in the tournament, even the few from the United Kingdom, where the card game wasn't all the rage (yet). However, on televisions everywhere, the stories of the tournament would come forth.

Elsewhere was a young teenager, who stayed holed in a boat, holding a slim golden stick with a ball on top, and "wings" that looked like axe blade heads. On the front was the all-familiar eye that was seen on the Sennen Puzzle Yugi wore all the time.

"The time has come, pharaoh... you may have escaped me the first time, but I will claim the Sennen Puzzle..." He chuckled to himself.

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"So," Harry spoke up, as he and Cassie walked down the street, passing by duels that went on right now, "what do we know about the Sennen Puzzle...?"

"It holds the spirit of an ancient being who once lived long ago, however Yami's memories are still lost to him, and we learned more about the other Sennen Items he has encountered during his adventures in Duelist Kingdom, and that Ryou held the Sennen Ring before Honda chucked it off back in Duelist Kingdom."

"Yeah..."

"Hey! Are you looking for a duel?"

They turned around, and saw two redheaded teenagers, who looked identical in everyway, except the one on the left had green eyes, and the one on the right had blue eyes. The long curved spikes of hair were in a mirror flip, and while the left brother wore a traditional leather belt, the right brother wore a chain belt.

"Yeah... you two duelists interested in tag-team?"

"Yup! I'm Jesse, and this is my twin brother James. We're from America, though our Japanese is crockery... thank goodness for translator buttons those officials handed to us foreigners."

"Yeah, yeah, now while don't we let our cards do the talking from now on?"

"Right!" The twins replied, as their declaration starting the tag duel begun. Luckily, several camera people who go around and capture film of various duels were in the area.

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"Oh my god," Lily whispered, "James!"

Hermione was interested in this Battle City Tournament that was mentioned in news reports internationally, and since her parents were on their anniversary in America, she was staying with the Potters. The Weasley children were there on that day, and now lead to right now: the Order of the Phoenix with its interrupted meeting now glued to the muggle TV in the living room. James held onto Lily when she collapsed into the nearby couch, transfixed on her eldest son on television.

"I place two cards face down on the field, and then I summon this card, Hand of Nephthys (2/600/600 Spellcaster/Effect/Wind) in Attack Mode!" There appearing was a woman garb in Egyptian clothing from a swirl of fire, baring golden jewelry and a strange ornament-like helmet with a large crystal blue eye over her originals eyes, and a curtain of black long hair. She was like an elegant dancer the way she twirled before standing still, arms crossed, "however... I will Tribute her, along with one other monster card in my hand, to Special Summon Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys (8/2400/1600 Winged Beast/Effect/Fire)!"

The woman then burst into live flames, as a feminine screech echoed. The phoenix form of the monster emerged in its fiery glory, the sister of Ra, one of the gods of Egypt. She looked like a giant robotic bird-like creature, with a live mane of flames, and wings made of the same hot fire.

"I end my turn... your up Cassie!"

She giggled and drew a card. The brothers were a bit nervous. One of their opponents had successfully and within the new rules of the tournament, summoned a high level monster in one turn. The crowds had enjoyed that well-played and rather very lucky move.

"First, I play Monster Reborn, to bring forth the monster in Harry's Graveyard!" Harry snatched the ejected card and threw it to the girl who swiftly caught it, and slaps it down on her duel disk with a grin, "Rare Metal Dragon (4/2400/1200 Dragon/Effect/Dark), in Attack Mode! Now I summon a monster of my own this time. Welcome to the playing field, Silent Swordsman LV3 (3/1000/1000 Warrior/Effect/Light)..."

Now appearing next to the glossy land-like dragon that held a glossy metal sheen to its skin with horns jutting from the knees, horn-like nose, and spiky outer shell stood a child-like warrior who was breaking into preteen adolescence. He carted a sword with him crafted in his own design, and wore a black helmet with metal horns of the sort. The clothing was dark navy blue, with belts, buckles, and metal-plated toe-pointed boots, leather brown gloves, and belt. His hair was a vivid orange, skin a shade of jade green, and his only eye not hidden behind the hair holding a child-like gaze. If one looked closely, they would have seen one of his elf-like ears from the left sticking out from the orange hair.

"I end my turn... your turn now, Jesse."

"Hm... okay then. I place three cards facedown, and then I set this monster card down as well." Four cards formed before Jesse, who then turned the tables over to James.

"I also place three cards facedown, but I shall summon Big Shield Gardna (4/100/2600 Warrior/Effect/Earth) in Defense Mode." A man with long spiky-like hair carrying a giant shield large enough to hide himself completely behind formed with a grunt, kneeling on the floor.

Harry: 2 Facedown, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys ~ATK
Cassie: No Facedown, Rare Metal Dragon ~ATK, Silent Swordsman LV3 ~ATK
Jesse: 3 Facedown, Unknown Monster ~SET
James: 3 Facedown, Big Shield Gardna ~DEF

"You know, I really do not trust your monster hiding under its card, so I shall get rid of it without activating any nasty jinxes... I play the card Soul Exchange! And I'll sacrifice your monster, to summon the card I had just drawn, Pretty Girl Maya (6/2300/2000 Spellcaster/Effect/Dark) in Attack Mode!" The card that Jesse had set was revealed to be Goblin Attack Force, before they were all swept away in a blaze of digital data. Appearing in a swirl of magic, the adolescent preteen sister of Black Magician Girl appeared, catching her baton-like magic stave and giggling cutely, sending a wink.

Harry heard the whispering audience, proclaiming to have never seen his card before. How could they? It wasn't known until now. "As you can see, Maya is the younger sister of the Black Magician Girl. When I was just a little boy, I have gotten hooked on the game Duel Monsters, and entered this contest he once held. I had won first place, and when we had met with Pegasus, he was thrilled by the ideas I had for cards, that until the starting to Duelist Kingdom, he would print off the list of cards I had thought of and mail it to my former home in England, created within my own mind, while enhancing the art clips of several monsters I have drawn myself. Maya here is one of the cards in my deck, and some exist within Cassie's deck."

He grinned. "And that also includes this nifty spell card just for Maya. Soul Unison!"

"Now, fuse together with Cassie's Rare Metal Dragon!"

The Rare Metal Dragon screeched as it turned into a shimmering gunmetal gray ball of light that zipped over and slammed into the preteen monster's chest erupting a bright aura that soon turned into a flash of light. She levitated high into the air as all of her clothes disintegrated away leaving her nude for all to see. However light had at that second wrapped around her, concealing her body from the perverts in the audience.

The light that formed over dulled, becoming a smoke gray bodysuit that cuts off around the neck area. Her neck was clad in a leather choker that held round silver orbs in them. Around her thighs and biceps, armor plating similar to the upper leg portions of Rare Metal Dragon snapped into place. The bicep armor had gear-designed pauldrons forming over her shoulders, and two chevron borders that were white with green accents set themselves as knee guards, forming over slim gunmetal-gray boots with a black gear as ankle bands. Similar colored gloves formed over her hands, with gears forming as wristbands. The helmet that formed partially over her head held a similar radiating border of quill-like spikes of the dragon's shell casing, that covered her ears, but allowed her blonde hair to spill out the back. A belt had snapped around her waist, white with a gear symbol over the buckling. Goldenrod lines formed from the sides of the feet arced upward and split once passing the front of her crotch. Two ran up her chest while the second set curved around her back and stopped on two gears that protruded out her back.

Everyone stared in awe as she struck up a fighting pose, and announced her new fusion form.

"Soul Unison: Metal Soul (6/3550/4000 Warrior/Effect/Earth)!"

Harry chuckled. "Soul Unison allows a selected monster to be used as fusion material for Maya. However not all monsters have a fusion form with my lovely young Spellcaster. There are only two Unisons I have discovered so far and its Metal Soul and Black Dragon Soul. Hopefully before this tournament ends, I intend to find out if there's a Soul Unison with Blue-eyes White Dragon. Now, onto the status... Maya while in Metal Soul gains the piercing effect during any attack commands. Her attack is boosted with half the attack of Metal Dragon however her defense shoots up to four thousand. Ironically Rare Metal Dragon is a Dragon Type, but she changes her type to Warrior, and her attribute is now Earth based. Attack his Big Shield Gardna with Metal Gear Punch!"

The transformed girl rocketed towards the imposing man with blue jet flames that shot out the ports in the gears out her back, and her fist shattered the shield like glass and punched Big Shield Gardna to the graveyard.

Harry: No Facedown, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys ~ATK, Pretty Girl Maya: Metal Soul ~ATK
Harry's LP: 8000/8000
Cassie: No Facedown, Silent Swordsman LV3 ~ATK
Cassie's LP: 8000/8000
Jesse: 3 Facedown
Jesse's LP: 8000/8000
James: 3 Facedown
James' LP: 7050/8000

"Now Sacred Phoenix, direct attack on Jesse! Immortal Phoenix Flame Release!" The sacred phoenix screeched as she flapped her fiery wings unleashing blasts of flames that struck Jesse, nearly pushing him down.

Harry: No Facedown, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys ~ATK, Pretty Girl Maya: Metal Soul ~ATK
Harry's LP: 8000/8000
Cassie: No Facedown, Silent Swordsman LV3 ~ATK
Cassie's LP: 8000/8000
Jesse: 3 Facedown
Jesse's LP: 5600/8000
James: 3 Facedown
James' LP: 7050/8000

"I'm sorry, but you are too much, so we relinquish this duel to you," the brothers said in unison, holding their hands over their decks, signaling that they forfeited the duel.

"With Metal Soul having that piercer effect, you can just keep attacking our monsters if they're in defense mode," Jesse explained.

"And Cassie if her turn had come up, could have raised her LV monster to a higher form if she had it, plus your phoenix monster is a high level monster," James finished.

Harry: No Facedown, Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys ~ATK, Pretty Girl Maya: Metal Soul ~ATK
Harry's LP: 8000/8000
Cassie: No Facedown, Silent Swordsman LV3 ~ATK
Cassie's LP: 8000/8000
Jesse: 3 Facedown
Jesse's LP: 0000/8000
James: 3 Facedown
James' LP: 0000/8000
Winner: Harry Potter & Cassandra Black

Now there were more whispering, amongst cheers and applause for the impressive, yet short duel. The two brothers walked over as the duel disks shut off, and Maya now in invisible spirit form transformed back to normal. However, Maya did not know that she was perfectly seen on camera to a certain group in England who were up at their time zone.

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"What is that ghost haunting Harry for?"

"That, you mangy mutt, is Harry's prized possession, Pretty Girl Maya, if your brain has already lost its needed cells." Sirius growled, like a dog, at that taunt, "Though I wish to know why a simple muggle card has a spectral form..." But Maya had vanished from the eyes of the magicals, returning back into her soul room of Harry's body. The two teens had collected their winnings from the brothers, plus their Locator Cards. Harry had received Buster Blader from Jesse, and James handed his Barrel Dragon to Cassie. They held rare cards, but were still novices, and were now out of the tournament.

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"Wow, they are good," Mokuba said to himself, having watched the duel from the rooftops of a nearby building using binoculars, "Seto'll flip when he finds out."

Back on level ground, Harry and Cassie walked on, taking a bus to get to another part of the city, unaware that someone had witnessed their tag-match, and was very interested in the cards they held. The black-cloaked man hailed a taxi and got it to follow after the retreating bus.