Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or its characters.
A/N: Lol I was watching Yugioh and I realized I made a HUGE mistake for Allie's battle. Allie's not duel monsters challenged, I am lol. I totally messed up the way battle damage was supposed to be calculated and stuff. It's too complicated to explain, but I think I've gotten everything under control xp I've gone back and corrected it, but the ending of the duel is now really lame, but oh well it was my first try. Next duel, I know what I'm doing now. Okay so I've planned out what's going to happen for the next three chapters, I'm going to try and write them all before the end of this week. I have SAT exams in less then 3 weeks so I've really got to start studying. My winter vacation is ending… *snivel* so sad. There's not that much action this chapter but the next one to come we'll have more Yami and Allie interaction. Anyways hope you enjoy ^^
Italics- Shadi speaking
Chapter Seven
Slifer the Sky Dragon
Great, just great, I thought grimly as I walked along a random street. I had spent the rest of the afternoon hunting for that purple haired slimy weasel and avoiding being challenged to a battle by other duelists. I knew I should have said yes when Yugi offered to continue helping me. Why did I say no? Oh that's right because Yugi needs to get his six locater cards and save the world…again. But I'm so lonely and there's no one to talk to!
I glanced up at the sky since I had no other way of telling the time. Why couldn't Kaiba have bothered to install a watch in his ridiculously heavy duel disk? I mean why can't this stupid thing display the time when I'm not dueling? It's got a screen and people wear it like a watch ergo it should be able to tell the time! I sent the duel disk a very nasty look.
"Hey girl!"
I stopped and spun around, searching for the person who dared to address me. All afternoon I had males shouting at me 'Hey you!' and 'Hey girl!'. I could feel a vein throbbing on my forehead out of irritation. "What?" I demanded.
"I challenge you to a duel." he said, smirking.
"Hmmm," I pretended to think, placing a finger to my chin, "No." I replied, turning on my heel and walking away.
"B-but you can't! Battle City Rules state that you have to accept my challenge!" the boy stammered, running ahead of me.
I narrowed my eyes at him, he seemed pretty harmless. I relaxed a little bit, with a little bit of persuasion and smooth talking, I could get out of having to duel him. I wasn't in the mood for running because the last guy I out ran, caused me to sprain my ankle. I wouldn't be able to out run this kid, not that he'd probably try to chase me anyways. I smiled at him, "Why on earth would you want to duel me?" I asked, moving towards him. I silently chuckled as he took a step backwards, "If you want to make it to the finals, you're better off challenging someone with a lot of locater cards. As you can see I only have one locater card," I told him, pulling out the clear card from my pocket.
"B-but-"
"Time's running out for you to qualify." I interrupted him. I could see him hesitating and so I went out, "You should really pick your battles wisely. I've got nothing to offer you. But that guy," I said, pointing to the first person I saw with a duel disk, "He's got a super rare card and a couple of locater cards."
"R-really?"
"Yes," I nodded, "So why don't you take your little duel disk and your fancy cards and go challenge him."- and leave me alone, I added after he left.
Phew, that was a close one. I didn't want to stick around just incase the kid changed his mind. I hobbled across the street and over towards what looked to be a park. I needed to sit down before my luck caused me to somehow break my ankle. That stupid guy, chasing me around and around Battle City. I closed my eyes- I'm only just going to rest my eyes for a little while. I had thought about going to find Joey and follow him around but Battle City is so big, I'd just be wasting my energy.
"I activate the trap card, Grave Robber!"
I frowned, hey wait a minute I know that voice. Opening my eyes I looked around. A very hideous oversized mutated spider caught my attention and across from it was one very familiar blonde. I stood up, forgetting about my pain and strode over. My luck works in mysterious ways, but I wasn't complaining.
"Time to exterminate your queen!" Joey exclaimed in a sing song voice.
A giant can of bug spray materialized onto the field, held by a floating hand. I clamped my hands over my ears as the spider-woman let out a screech, it sounded like a person dragging their nails down a chalkboard. Joey pumped his fist in the air, "Yeah! There goes my pest problem," he said, grinning.
"What have you done to my queeeeeeen?"
"But wait, I'm not through wit you yet, Weavile Underpants. Gearfried destroy his last egg and the rest of his life points!"
The onyx black iron knight charged across the field and with one swing of his sword, slashed the egg. Yay Joey! I mentally cheered, clapping at his win.
"Welcome to loserville, population you!" Joey said, walking over to Weavile and held out his hand expectantly, "Alright Weavile cough em up, your insect queen and two locater cards."
"Have mercy," Weavile replied, sinking to the ground.
"Mercy? No way" Joey shook his head and held up his index finger, "You should have thought about that before you decided to cheat. Now just like in Duelist Kingdom, you're out of the tournament." The runner up at Duelist Kingdom snatched the cards out of the midget's hand and added them to his deck.
I wanted to go over and congratulate him, but I felt too nervous and shy to walk over. Instead I stood rooted to my spot, some few feet away, clapping lightly, hoping he'd turn around and come over to me. It's probably because I didn't know him that I was feeling shy, that or the fact that it was Joey Wheeler.
Turn around, turn around, turn around, I chanted over and over, staring intensely at the blonde's back, believing that if I stared hard enough, he'd actually turn around. Finally after five minutes of intense staring to the point of where I was afraid I might pop my eye or something, Tea motioned with her hand towards me.
"Huh?" he turned around, "Oh hey Allie." the blonde grinned and ran over, "Whatcha doin here?"
"Che," I muttered under my breath, "I was just passing by. Congratulations on your win by the way," Finally I got to congratulate him. Now I could continue on.
Joey chuckled and scratched his head absentmindedly, "You saw me kick Weavile Underpant's butt?"
"Not the whole thing. Just the end." I grinned.
"And how about you, Allie?" Joey asked, turning around and waving for his friends to come over, "Guys, dis is Allie. We met yesterday,"
"Hi, I'm Tea," an over friendly brunette said, holding out her hand, "It's nice to meet you."
I looked at Tea for a moment, she was never my favorite person, but maybe now that I was here, she wouldn't seem so naive and stupid. I accepted her handshake, "Allie Grey. Nice ta meet ya too, Tea."
"This," Joey pointed to a boy with a very pointy hairdo, "Is my man, Tristan."
"Hi." I said.
"Hey Allie, so you're a duelist too?" he noted, his brown eyes resting on the duel disk on my wrist.
I chuckled nervously, "I don't think my skills meet the definition of a duelist," I joked.
"Nonsense Allie," spoke up a third person, one who I hadn't noticed until now: Solomon Moto.
"Yeah Ag," Joey added.
I arched a brow, "Ag?" I pondered the nickname.
"They're the initials of your name," he clarified.
A small smile spread across my face, "Yes I know," I laughed. Inside I could feel myself jumping for joy, I had a nickname. It took all my will power not to grab Joey and swing him around. Maybe later though.
"Anyways Ag, you're still putting yourself down?" Joey frowned, "Get some self confidence, would ya?" he exclaimed, "C'mon we're gonna find you someone to duel right now," Joey stated determinedly.
"No," I squeaked, "I-I already battled someone,"
Joey whipped around, "Ya did? And?"
"I-I won," I mumbled.
"So what's with the gloomy attitude, Ag?" he demanded.
"Joey!" Tea snapped. I gave the girl a grateful look, Joey's aura was a little scary at the moment; he was seriously fired up, "Don't scare Allie. If she doesn't want to battle, don't make her!" Tea growled, cuffing him on the ear.
"What? Oh sorry Ag," the blonde apologized, "I guess I got a little carried away. But anyways how come ya seem so bummed out about your win?"
I let out a sigh and explained the annoying tragedy that happened, "-and so the dork ran off because he was a sore loser."
"Whaa?" exclaimed Joey, "That little snake."
"Yeah exactly," I agreed, "And I chased him down the street but he disappeared in a massive crowd of people. And that's when I ran into Yugi-"
"You saw Yugi?" Tea interjected, her voice coated with concern.
"How's my grandson doing?" Solomon asked.
"Yug?"
"Yugi?"
Out of the four outbursts, I only chose to reply to the first two, "Yes, I saw Yugi." I said, looking at Tea. I turned to the oldest Moto, "He's doing fine. He helped me look around for the slimy weasel and then we sat down at a nearby cafe and discussed…uh strategies," Nope I can't tell them what really happened, I'll leave that to Yami.
"Strategies?" Solomon echoed.
"Yeah because I need all the help I can get," Please let that be a Yugi-ish thing to do, I prayed. I would tell them eventually the entire truth but now was definitely not the time.
"Cafe?"
Of course Joey would only hear the food part.
"Speaking of cafes, I am so hungry right now, I could eat my body weight in cheese burgers,"
"Eww that is so gross Joey," Tea commented.
"Agreed," I teased.
"Hey, I just won a duel. I have earned da right to eat whatever I want witout judgement. Let's go get some food!" Joey began to march off in the direction I had just come from.
I leaned over to Tea, "Uhh does he know where he's going?"
"No, but usually he never does,"
We laughed. Tea's alright I guess, just as long as she doesn't open her mouth to do her version of the friendship speech, then we might have a problem.
"Hey Joey, wait for us," We called out, running after him. At some point, once we had caught up to Joey, my ankle started to act up again. Please pick somewhere to eat today Joey, I thought sarcastically, subconsciously glaring at the blonde who seemed to have a very specific place he wanted to eat at.
"Joey how long are you going to make us walk?" Tea complained, "I'm losing all feeling in my feet."
I glanced down at her feet and mentally laughed. It was a wonder how she made it this far walking in high heeled sandals.
"Yeah man, would you just pick a place." Tristan snapped.
"Don't rush me, Tristan," Joey retorted, swinging his head around to glare at him. "It's around here somewhere," he muttered to himself.
I trotted up and fell into step with Joey, "What exactly are you…" I winced and bit down on my lower lip to stop myself from crying out, "-looking for," I forced the last two words out and then clamped my mouth shut as I mentally began to howl in pain.
Joey flashed a glance in my direction, "According to some duelist I over heard, dere's dis restaurant place dat has a free food buffet for all duelist who entered Battle City," he explained.
I perked up at 'free food', okay so I could deal with my pain for a little while longer. I haven't eaten since I arrived here and I all I had was a couple of brownies. And I wasn't able to eat with Yugi. Bring on the free food.
"Ah ha!" Joey suddenly exclaimed, "Dis is da place, guys."
"It's a diner," Tristan observed, "We passed like a dozen of those."
I spun around on my good foot, "Yeah but it's got a free food buffet for all duelist," I said, emphasizing the 'free food' part.
"Alright, lead the way Joey." Tristan grinned, slapping the boy on his shoulder.
Joey muttered something incoherent under his breath and then walked inside. Once inside we first had show proof that we were duelist, as if the giant piece of junk on our arms wasn't proof enough, we flashed the waiters our locater cards. We were placed in a booth seat in the corner by the window. Both Joey and Tristan went off to pile their plates with heaps of food.
"There aren't a lot of duelists here," I said looking around at the nearly empty diner.
"They must all be still battling each other, just like my grandson," Solomon replied with a proud tone, returning with a sandwich on his plate.
I cocked my head to the side as I asked, "But don't they need to sleep?"
"It's a race against time, Allie. There are only eight places for Kaiba's tournament. They don't have time to rest."
"But what about Joey then?" I pondered as I removed Kaiba's device from my arm. I rolled my wrist from side to side and wiggled my fingers.
Tea smiled, "Joey's already got four locater cards. He just needs two more and then he qualifies for the quarter finals."
I dropped the subject and left to get food just as the two boys returned back to the table. All thoughts and worries disappeared at the sight of unlimited amounts of food. I grabbed the biggest plate available and worked my way down the buffet, piling as much food as I could.
"Whoa, that's a lot of food,"
I shrugged, picking up a slice of watermelon, "I'm hungry. Haven't eaten since yesterday."
The brunette slid out allowing me to take her spot by the window. This was nice, being able to eat with the gang and it was way better than walking around by myself.
Slifer the Sky Dragon is nearby.
I choked on the bit of grilled cheese I had been chewing. "T-thanks," I spluttered as Tea patted me firmly on the back.
"No problem,"
What do you want? I mentally growled. Would I never be given a chance to eat in peace?
It is in your best interest to meet him.
Can't you see I'm eating? I'll go later, now get out of my head before I hurt you, I warned the ancient spirit.
"Ag, yoo-hoo, anybody home?" a brooklyn accent broke into my thoughts.
I opened my eyes to find everybody giving me bizarre looks. I chuckled, "Hehe, sorry I guess I spaced out for a moment." I resumed munching on my sandwich, tuning out completely to their conversation as I was being forced to have one of my own. 'And exactly why do I need to meet him?' I asked.
Until it is time, that is irrelevant. But just remember you carry a little of Slifer the Sky Dragon's power with you. It is only courteous to introduce yourself.
I don't know what it even does. You don't even know what it does. Maybe it's not as special as you want it to be, I joked sarcastically. So far this Millennium Item had yet to prove itself. And also that's the second time Shadi's said 'until it is time' and yet he won't tell me anything. What does it mean? I'm still doubtful all this is happening.
I cannot tell you what to believe Allison Grey, but I suggest you realize sooner than later how very real this is. The fact that you are here in this world is proof enough of Slifer's powers. Now hurry up and go!
Okay, sheesh I understand, I snapped. Oh yes but before you go, Shadi, I have just one teensy tiny problem- I have other people with me. I can't just get up and leave, that would be rude and I am not going to be rude to the only friends I have here. So Mister Smarty Pants, if you want me to go and meet Slifer, you're going to have to figure out a way to distract everyone.
There was no reply.
"Hey check this out," Tea spoke up, pointing to the glass window.
I turned my head to see a flyer pressed up against the window.
"Isn't that Mako Tsunami?" Joey exclaimed, rising from his seat.
You've got to be kidding me.
Tristan pressed his face to the glass, "It looks like he's preforming at the Domino Aquarium," he said, reading the flyer.
"We should go and check it out," Tea suggested.
"Alright, yeah let's go."
Once outside, I bid the group farewell, "Sorry guys, but this is where we part. I'm going to continue searching for that purple haired idiot."
Joey grinned, placing a hand on my shoulder, "And while you're at it Ag, try and win a few battles."
I snorted and shook my head, turning around and walking away.
"Hey Ag! Let's meet at Battle City Finals!" I heard Joey call out. I raised my arm in response, not looking back. I knew where Yugi was dueling but I didn't know where Yugi was dueling. Suddenly a giant gust of wind blasted my way, hurling little pieces of trash at me along with other stuff. Great Mother Nature is laughing at me, I thought with annoyance. "Ow" I exclaimed as an empty can promptly hit me on the head. The wind continued to hit me with extreme force.
"My card!"
Oh of all the rotten luck! This is probably why I shouldn't keep my cards in my pocket. I began to chase after my card, jumping for it every time it seemed within my reach, but just at the last minute the wind would lift it higher. Now Mother Nature is making fun of my height. I hate my luck.
"Gimme…my…card…back!" I said aloud, jumping with every word. The card flipped over, it was my Magician's Valkyria. No no no no no that was not a card I could afford to lose for multiple reasons, one being it was one of my favorite cards, another being she was very pretty. Oh my gosh when will the wind die? I thought as the card started to get ahead of me. I looked in front of me to see the road was coming to an end. "Oh please, wind, stop."
I had to pick up my pace in order to keep up with my Magician's Valkyria. The road was becoming shorter and shorter, I was running out of space to run on. I leapt one more time. "Yes!" I shouted as I managed to grab the edge of my card.
SMACK.
"Ompf."
I have really got to work on my landings. Yes, that sound would be me once again kissing the ground. Now the world was upside-down and I'm seeing stars. Ooh what's that giant red thing I see? I blinked and flipped myself over.
"No way," I whispered in awe. I peered down at my Magician's Valkyria- was she smiling at me? I brought the card closer to my face, nah I must have imagined it. I placed her back with my other cards and then slipped my deck into my duel disk- that should hold them. Oddly enough the wind had stopped harassing me.
I got slowly to my feet, enchanted by the almighty dragon. Cautiously I walked over, keeping my eyes on Slifer the entire time. The dragon reared its head back and let out a giant ball of energy. It repeated the same action over and over until finally he hit the ground. I cringed in sympathy, I knew exactly how he was probably feeling at the moment. I gazed at the beast and for a moment it seemed we made eye contact.
I blinked and he disappeared.
Thanks: Auqa girl 007, Yamiheart lol I screwed up the battle, which is why you got confused, lol my bad, YankeeSamson, Darquesse, Animefreak32541, EgyptianSoul88 and alexanimelvr lol thanks you totally saved me ;D
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edited- 11/4/13 The only thing that should be noted is the small conversation between Allie and Shadi. I'm rewriting Shadi's role so that he's not so nosy/over stepping his place.
