Chapter 3:
The morning of the Duelist Kingdom Finals has arrived. The morning sun begins to arrive above the horizon. Everybody is waking up for the tournament. Alana, extremely eager, woke up early.
Alana was out on the balcony looking at the ocean. She woke up early due to another frightening image of her brother. Except this image showed her brother being stranded out in the ocean as he struggles to stay afloat crying for help. His sunglasses were off, getting slammed by huge waves and as the image progressed, Keith is holding on a piece of driftwood. He sees a large sailboat with robed people on board, three robed figures were looking out the rails and the robed figure in the middle held the same golden rod that Alana saw in her nightmare. After a few minutes looking out in the balcony, Alana went inside to brush her hair and to sit down on the couch, pondering what just came over her. She wondered why she can't get these images about her brother out of her head.
Just then, Keith entered the room to tell her it's time to go to the play offs. He and Alana went to an elevator that will take them to the arena floor. There they saw Mai waiting for the other duelists to be in the elevator. Later on, Yugi, Joey, and Kiro entered the elevator to join them.
"Well look who's here." Mai chortled, as she begins to initiate a conversation.
"Mai.", Yugi said.
"Sleep well?" asked Mai, "I'm looking forward to duel you today."
"Ready to give me your best shot at our duel, Joey?" Kiro asked. "Remember to do your best today for your sister."
"No problem!" Joey stated with confidence; "Same thing for you, Kiro."
"Attention, attention duelists." announced Croquet over the speaker, as the duelists paid close attention to the announcement. "We have reached the arena floor, please step out to the arena after the door opens."
After the announcement, the elevator door opens so the finalists enter the arena floor. There they saw a balcony with a throne and two bodyguards, as Croquet began to announce the host of the Duelist Kingdom Tournament; Maximillion Pegasus entered and stood in front of the throne.
"Yugi, Joey, Kiro, Alana, Mai, and Bandit Keith." Pegasus stated. "I welcome you all to the Duelist Kingdom play offs! There you will duel your way top and become the winner of the play offs. There the victor of this tournament not only receives the three million dollar prize but also wins the right to challenge me."
"Challenge you to a duel, what happens if the winner won the match?" Tristan asked.
"The victor who defeats me in a duel will get one request whatever his or her heart's desire, and if it's in my power their wish will be granted." Pegasus answered Tristan's question. "The winner of tournament will be ranked as Champion of the World!"
"The Champion of the World;" Alana repeated.
"And guys, that will be me." Mai added.
"The victor of the tournament knows that the title, not the prize money is more important- is that so?" Pegasus asked.
"You're a regular comedian." Keith remarked.
"Listen you," Joey started, "The prize money is what I needed to pay my sister's operation!"
"Yes, yes," Pegasus replied, "There are some duelists have higher rides than others in this tournament."
"Now without further due , let the play offs begin!" Pegasus announced.
Croquet announces that the first match, Mai Valentine vs. Yugi Moto will begin. Mai is on the red side of the dueling arena and Yugi is on the blue side. Mai showed Croquet the Glory of the King's Hand and Yugi showed him the Glory of the King's Opposite Hand card qualifying them to duel. At the beginning of the duel, Mai had the upper hand while Yugi struggled with the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle. Later on, Yugi began to turn the tables on the match, using the Black Luster Soldier to destroy Mai's Harpies' Pet Dragon, causing Mai to forfeit the match. Croquet informs that not only he will go to the next round of the play offs but waits for his opponent.
Croquet announces that the second match, Alana vs. Bandit Keith will begin. After they heard the announcement, Keith and Alana went to the arena. Alana was on the red side of the arena and her brother was on the blue side of the arena. Before the duel started Croquet asked them if they had their tournament entry cards, Keith showed him the Glory of the King's Opposite Hand card while Alana showed him the Glory of the King's Hand card and they are qualified to duel. As the duel progresses, both duelists gave every ounce of their effort as their life points began to dwindle. As they reached their last hundred life points, both of them never let up. Despite her close attempt to defeat her brother, Keith won the duel after he using the trap card called Time Machine to bring his Barrel Dragon back from the Graveyard pile, destroyed her strongest monster, and wiped out Alana's life points. She congratulated her older brother and went up to the balcony to see a duel that determined who was going to be Keith's opponent.
Croquet announces that the third match, Joey Wheeler vs. Kiro Naka will begin. Joey is on the red side of the arena and Kiro is on the blue side of the arena. Joey and Kiro both showed Croquet their Glory of the King's Hand card and they are qualified to duel. As the duel continued, both of them are evenly matched and with the help from the Heart of the Cards, Joey won the duel. Kiro congratulated Joey, wishing him the best of luck as he went to the balcony to see the next duel.
Croquet informs everyone that the fourth match, Bandit Keith vs. Joey Wheeler will begin. Bandit Keith is in the red side of the arena and Joey is on the blue side of the arena. Keith and Joey showed their entry cards to Croquet in order to be qualified in the match. From the balcony, Yugi, Tristan, Kiro, Tea, Alana, and Bakura watched the duel with anticipation. Alana cheered for her brother while the others cheered for Joey. As the duel started, Joey struggled at first, as he didn't know that Magic type cards and monsters that use magical attacks have no effect on Keith's machine monsters. Later on, Joey figured out the glitches of Keith's monsters. In the middle of the duel, as Alana watches Keith, she saw another image of her older brother falling into a trap door that was triggered by Pegasus that led to the ocean. As he fell out of the tunnel, he fell into the ocean. After seeing that image, she snapped out of the blank state that her image had put her under; rubbing her forehead as if she had a very bad headache. As she was doing that Kiro noticed her behavior was worrisome. As Keith and Joey were down to their last few hundred-life points, Kiro walked up to Alana and tapped her on her shoulder. She felt his tapping, looked to where the tapping was coming from and saw Kiro by her side.
"Alana, are you alright, I've seen you not acting like yourself since we met yesterday." asked Kiro. "Would you mind if I talk to you in private so we can straighten things out?"
"Sure, why not." Alana replied as she followed him to his room.
As they entered Kiro's room, Alana told Kiro about her nightmare and the two horrible images that she had earlier today. After Kiro heard about her images, he asked her to concentrate on her horrible images of her older brother. As she did Kiro touched her forehead and close his eyes to use the force to channel Alana's thoughts about her images to his mind. As he did he saw every detail of each image that Alana had from last night to today. As he opened his eyes he took out a platinum amulet with a glowing Jedi insignia on it and pointed at Alana.
"By the powers of the amulet, please reveal to me her past life!" Kiro incited as Alana felt the strong burst of white light from the amulet rushing through her body. As the light began to flow right to Alana, Kiro saw an image of Karone in front of Alana.
"It's you!" exclaimed Kiro in surprise. "You're the one I've been looking for, for a very long time!"
"What are you talking about, and why were you looking for me " Alana asked Kiro, as she has no idea what he's talking about.
As Kiro took out his amulet under his shirt, he explained that both of them are reincarnated from their past lives as younglings from the past from a very distant galaxy from the Milky Way. He explained that he went to the Duelist Kingdom Tournament because there may be a chance that he might find a girl who was once had a life as a youngling before she was reborn, he too is reincarnated from a youngling who goes by the name of Orion. Alana asked how did Kiro remembered about his past life because she doesn't have any memory about her past life. Kiro told her that a Jedi Spirit named Qui-Gon Jinn, who guided him to his understanding about his past life as a youngling. He met him when he was carrying a bag of groceries after school, he saw three mischievous little boys bandaging up a cat. Kiro told them to stop torturing the cat and the boys left. He undid the bandages and told it to stay clear of these kids. As he reached home her mother thanked him for picking up the groceries for her, as she heard a soft purring, she noticed the same cat that Kiro rescued him followed him home. With consideration from his parents they let Kiro to keep him if he takes good care for it. As he went up to his room, he started to figure out a good name for it, he originally thinking calling Qui-Gon by the name of Ninja because it followed him home without any hint of detection from Kiro. Just then, he heard a voice coming from the cat, and he realizes that it can communicate him telepathically and wasn't expecting that from a cat. The cat told Kiro his name is Qui-Gon. As the cat explained that it was reincarnated on Earth to watch over one of the two younglings that already reborn and how he got assigned to find the girl who has a past life that goes by the name of Karone. He explained to that the images she saw are visions of what will happen to Keith in the future and like Kiro she has Jedi powers as well. With a heavyhearted feeling to Alana, Kiro told her that her brother would become a mind slave to a notorious leader of the Rare Hunters with the power of the Millennium Rod.
"If the visions that I foresaw earlier about how my brother's fate will be sealed is true, then please, please teach me some of the ways of the force that you know from Qui-Gon so I can somehow save him before it's too late!" Alana pleaded to Kiro as he is torn between being loyal to Qui-Gon by taking his advice from him on letting things that are close to a person go and move on and helping his friend to save Keith by teaching her his ways of the force that Qui-Gon taught him.
"I'm not sure about this, learning to the force takes time and the knowledge to master the basics of training." Explained Kiro, "Why do you want to rescue your brother from his unfortunate fate so badly?"
"You see Kiro," Alana began, "Keith is the only one left in my family because my parents are no longer here to take care of me."
"What happened to your folks to begin with?" Kiro asked.
"Well, it might be a long and complicating story that you might have to sit down as I explain to you what happened to them." Alana advised Kiro as he sits down on the bed with her.
She begins with her mother's life and how she grew up, she once lived in a cult that involves arranged marriages of girls whose ages are at least sixteen years of age to men who were three times their age and having more than one wife. She escaped from the cult when she was sixteen years old with a help of a man who was kicked out of the cult when he was a teenager. She lived with him and his Native American wife to begin her new life outside of the cult. When she went to her first day of high school, she was bewildered of finding her homeroom and all of the students hurrying from their lockers to their homerooms as she continued her new life because the leader of the cult ordered his followers to take out their children out of public school so they won't make contact with outsiders. They had a belief that people who are outside of the cult were part of the devil. As she was looking all around the hallways, she bumped to an eighteen-year-old boy with golden hair and emerald eyes who happens to be her future husband. He never met a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl with sapphire eyes and long brunette locks before at his school. He asked her to join with him after school at a local restaurant, yet she politely refused his offer because even though she's out of the cult, she had fears of being beaten up very badly by men that she saw earlier when she was living in the cult. Later on, she grown into a successful woman, as she was in college she bumped into a man that she first met at high school. When he recognized her and asked her go out on a date with him. Her mother accepted his offer, as she was confident with man and forgotten of her painful past. As time past, her mother's future husband asked her hand in marriage and she happily to accept his proposal. Their wedding took place at Las Vegas, Nevada and they went to New Mexico on their honeymoon, there they unexpectedly cross paths with the leader of the cult who was not very pleased to see her mother married to her husband when he thought that she suppose to marry a man with multiple wives. Her husband didn't know about her that she once escaped from a cult but he forgave her because she didn't want to talk about her painful past. The leader of the cult was arrested for crimes that was unspeakable to the court and was sentenced for spending the rest of his life at prison along with his two bodyguards.
As time pasted, they settled down and started to raise a family of their own in New York City. There they witnessed the birth of Keith and Alana. Alana didn't remember her mother or her death from a huge car accident by a drunken taxicab driver. What she does remember that after her mother died, her father started drinking to completely drown out all of his grief of his wife. Things went from bad to worse for Keith and Alana as their father continues to drink, he became abusive to them that made Alana very timid and rely on her brother for comfort and support. When Keith was eighteen years old and Alana eight years old, Keith introduced her to Duel Monsters to help her to gain confidence and taught her how to play it because he's experienced on the game. Later on, they turned their father in to the police and were given a life's sentence for child abuse making Keith her legal guardian.
As time passed, Keith became a very strong duelist that he became the Intercontinental Champion after he won the Duel Monsters Intercontinental Championship; Alana became a strong duelist herself that she started entering Duel Monster tournaments to make her own reputation as a duelist. Later on, she throws an Indian themed Sweet sixteen-birthday party/Duel Monsters tournament at the coliseum. Every duelist, from New York was invited to the celebration because the invitation posters stated that the winner of the tournament would have the right to challenge the guest of honor to a duel. At the night of the party/Duel Monsters tournament, many duelists which most of them were fans of Alana, arrived at the coliseum as they were waiting for her to arrive. As they saw an Asian elephant made its entrance by blowing its trunk really loud to let the duelists to appear, they saw Alana in her authentic Indian clothing and jewelry that women wore in India riding on the back of the gigantic animal. Little do they know that the leader of the cult and his two bodyguards we're hiding in the crowd of overly excited duelists as she made her authentic entrance with guns loaded ready to kill her as their revenge on her mother who not only escaped the cult, but not willing to break up with her husband to marry a man with multiple wives. As they got their guns up ready to aim on Alana, a bodyguard notices them and tackled them to the ground causing them to miss. The sound of three gunshots causes the elephant to go mad and attack people with its rage. As the elephant stands on its two hind legs, Alana quickly got down of the elephant as she gets away from its rampage. It killed the leader of the cult and his bodyguards and ran amuck on the streets. It causes the police to track down the charging elephant before it can cause damage on the city. After they pinned the elephant to a wall, they begin to shoot the elephant to put an end of its misery. After the elephant is dead, the party/tournament is cancelled as news media begin to interview her and everyone that involved in this disaster. After the media was done swarming on Alana, she and her brother went to the mansion, where their butler asked if they were all right. The morning after the birthday party/tournament fiasco, Keith greeted her and gave her a beautiful locket, which in a form of a choker, made out fourteen karat gold with diamonds on it. When she opened the locket, she saw two pictures of Keith and Alana, the one on the left showed a picture Keith and Alana when they were eighteen and eight years old and the one on the right showed a picture of both of them at their current ages right now. She thanked her brother and put it on.
After Kiro heard about what happened to her parents and how her brother became her legal guardian, he begin to imagine that Alana is in Japan and met Qui-Gon as she begins to understand her past life while he's in America going through the rough life that Alana has already experienced while doesn't know about his past life. However, he wanted to be loyal to Qui-Gon by not doing things without having any consultation with him.
"I would like to help you save your brother Alana." Kiro started. "But I'm afraid but cannot do that because it might cause you to give presence away to the sith which is a very rare chance for that going to happen."
"What's this sith thing about?" Alana asked.
"Like the Jedi they use powers to communicate to the force, but unlike Jedi, who they uses the force for good, the sith uses the powers for evil and power." Kiro explained.
"When you the sith uses their powers for power, is it power as in complete domination of the galaxy?" Asked Alana.
"That is correct, Alana." Kiro answered her question.
"In other words, I'm afraid I'm not going to help you rescuing your brother by training you the ways of the force, I'm truly sorry." Kiro told her with sense of remorse in his heart.
After Alana heard the heartbreaking words from Kiro, her emerald eyes begins to quiver as it begins to form tears in her eyes as her eyes begin to widen, its preparing for her tears to trickle down her cheeks to shows her unbearable pain and suffering that she experienced from seeing visions of her brother, going to become a mind slave to an horrible leader of the Rare Hunters against his will.
As Kiro saw her tears, he begins to have a change of heart, knowing that Qui-Gon is an understanding person and agrees to help Alana save her brother. After hearing such great news, she went up to him and hugs him. After she gave him her hug of gratitude, her tears went from pain and suffering to joy and hope of rescuing Keith.
She then begins to formulate a plan to rescue her brother. She had the idea and told Kiro about how to rescue him.
"Kiro have an idea that might be crazy enough to work!" Alana informed him with confidence. "I'll use the amulet's power to teleport to the sailboat where Keith is noticed, then I'll teleport him to dry land so his fate won't be sealed and the visions won't happen!"
"That might be not a good idea Alana because if you teleport to where Keith is being fished out of the sea, you will share the same fate as your brother and if you teleport there without any training, you will not use the force to fight them off and make things more stressful to your brother because he's your legal guardian."
"Good point." Said Alana as she realizes the downsides of her plan.
"Don't worry, will another way to rescue him." Kiro assures her.
As Kiro figures out a way to help Alana, he remembered that he done on a report on the tallest mountains on Earth in his history class a long time ago. As he told his plan on saving Keith, she agrees with her plan and asked where in Egypt is Keith being held hostage. He told her that he would search for the Rare Hunters' hideout through out of body meditation. Before they ended their discussion, Alana added that she has to be in disguise so her brother's captor as well as Keith won't know her true identity. He channeled the image of the mountain from his mind and into Alana's mind as he taught her how to teleport by using the power of teleportation through the powers of her amulet. As she concentrates on the image of the mountain that Kiro gave her and use it to teleport to the location of that mountain. After she teleported, she finds herself at the base of the tallest mountain in Africa.