~Sabrina~
"Yugi!" the person shouts once again. We turn around to see Professor Halkins running in our direction.
Rebecca spots him right away and rushes up to him, "Grandpa, how could I lose?" she cries clinging to him.
Professor Halkins seems to ignore her, "Yugi, it's your grandfather!" he says.
"What happened to Grandpa?" I ask.
"What, did he never make it to the medical center?" Yugi says.
"Yes, he was there all right. I left the room briefly to go get the doctor, but once we came back, he was gone."
"Don't sweat it!" Joey says, "He probably walked out on his own."
"But he was barely able to even move."
"Maybe somebody helped him." Tea says.
"Yeah, but, we don't know anyone else in the tournament. And I seriously doubt Kaiba had the heart to personally take care of him." Tristan says.
I glance over at Yugi to see extreme worry on his face. I'm about as worried as he is, but I don't show it as much. "Anyways, let's go out and look for him. It won't be too hard." I say.
The gang and I then set out to look for him. Professor Halkins and Rebecca decide to go back to the medical center in case Gramps comes back, even though it's doubtful. We split up and search around Kaiba Land. I search the most obvious places for him to be, which would be near most of the food stands. I run past a few more rides and then the intercom turns on, "Attention Kaiba Land guests, a short, chubby, elderly man, wearing overalls and a black bandana has been separated from his loved ones. If anyone has lost a man following this description, he's waiting at the main gate."
That's him! I run off toward the main gate, but I can't help feel that I recognize the woman's voice over the intercom. I stop near the main gate in front of a small Blue-Eyes statue and wait. I then notice Yugi and the others coming this way, "So, you heard that announcement also?" I ask.
"Yep!" Yugi says.
"But wait. Then why isn't he here?" Tea says.
"I don't know." Duke says.
I lean against the Blue-Eyes statue and then feel something hit my back. I turn around to see a scroll with chibi panda faces on it attached to one of its claws, "Hey, what's this?" I say untying it from the claw.
I unfold the scroll as Yugi leans in toward the note. "It's a map." I say.
"It looks like the layout for Kaiba Land." Yugi says.
"And look here; there's an 'X' by that restaurant." Tristan adds.
"So if we go to da 'X', then we find Grandpa?" Joey says.
"But why would Yugi's grandpa tell us to come here, only to flee and give us a note of where to follow him?" Duke says. "This has to be some sort of trap."
"Well, I ain't fallin' into a trap!" Joey says.
"But it seems like we always do that. How is this time any different?" I say.
"I'm sick of all these traps! They're drivin' me crazy!"
"Joey, the best way to avoid the trap is to spring it." Yugi says, "We need to go, or at least I will."
"And I'm going." I say, "The rest of you coming or not?"
"Of course we will. We're a team!" Tea says, "Right guys?"
"Yeah, I guess." Joey says.
We then follow the map to the location where the 'X' was. We go down an alleyway, turn a corner, and then Duke stops in front of a restaurant, "This is it." He says.
The restaurant is Chinese and seems rather large, red, and classy. "So, when we're losin' our minds trying to find him, he's stuffing his face?" Joey says.
Yugi steps up to the door and pushes them open, "Grandpa! Are you here?" he shouts across the dark room.
We take a few steps into the room and then firecrackers begin to go off. Then somebody bangs a deafening gong and the lights turn on. The place looks even bigger from the inside and there's food spread across almost all the tables. "Yeah! We're just in time for lunch!" Joey says.
Yugi and I seem to be the only ones paying attention to the matter at hand, instead of the appearance of the restaurant or food. Tristan and Joey can't contain themselves any longer and dash toward the tables. "Hold off! I didn't see you two on the guest list!"
We look up to the second level of the restaurant to see somebody standing on the railing. My mood worsens once I see who it is; Vivian. She holds two fans in her hands and starts showing off her kung-fu again. God, I would've preferred if a demon showed up instead of her. "Hey, why don't ya come down here and tell us what's goin' on?" Joey says
"Fine!" she says.
Vivian jumps off of the railing, and she'll probably break or at least fracture some bones from that fall. But instead, she starts to fall slowly and gracefully to the ground. Will she ever stop showing off? "Wait, look over there guys!" Duke says as he points.
We look over to see an old man wearing a fancy Chinese robe and is slowly adjusting a rope, which obviously is holding Vivian up. "Um… is that Grandpa?" I say.
"What what're you doing here Gramps?" Yugi says.
"Uh, I can explain…" he says.
He doesn't even look like his back was ever injured. He then let's go of the rope and Vivian falls the rest of the way down and lands painfully on the ground. "You idiot!" she shouts to Grandpa, "You had one simple job! Even an infant could do it better than you!"
"Erm, give me another chance. I'll do better next time." He says.
"Wait, did Vivian kidnap you, or did you plan this?" Yugi asks.
"Oh, forget about that old man!" Vivian says. She snaps her fingers and Grandpa rings the gong again. "Now, welcome to the real Grand Prix tournament Yugi." Her tone of voice is rather velvety, "Where you and I will duke it out for the crown!" now her tone speaks insane.
"This woman needs to shut up." I tell Ari.
"She angers me. I'm taking over." She says.
~Ari~
"Look, I already beat you! There's no reason for you to be here!" I say.
"I'm starting my own tournament! So Yugi, keep your friends quiet and let's duel!" Vivian shouts.
"Sorry, it's against Kaiba's rules to duel you." Yugi says who surprisingly hasn't been taken over by Yami yet.
"You're making a mistake! You have to duel Vivian!" Grandpa says.
"What?! Don't tell me Vivian hypnotized ya or something'?" Joey says.
"Well, it's a funny story… I was suffering in my hospital bed, when Vivian walked in. She was able to cure my back with one quick jab! So if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be standing here, so I owed her a favor by getting you to show up."
"You-! How could ya! Ya turned your back on us!" Joey says.
"You're right… I've done a terrible thing." Grandpa says.
"So, is this how it's going to be?" Vivian says, "Fine." She gets into a kung-fu stance and then jabs Grandpa's back, making him fall over once again and lie there in pain. "So if you want your grandfather to walk again, then you're going to duel me!"
"Fine, let's do this!" now Yami says.
Vivian and Yami jump up onto two of the tables. "I knew you couldn't resist." Vivian says, "So, if you beat me, then your grandfather walks free. But if I win, then you're going to be my love slave."
Y-Yami? Her love slave? I can feel a pit in my stomach and I clench my fists so hard that they could be on the verge of bleeding as my anger increases, "That's way over the line!" I shout, "You can't subject him to that! He's not going to duel you!"
"Calm down, Ari, I won't lose." Yami says, "Vivian, if that's your challenge, then I must accept."
I'm still angry and I know Yami is way more skilled than Vivian, but just the very thought of such things just makes me sick. The duel goes on and right now Yami is down to 3500 Life Points and has Dark Magician on the field. While Vivian has 2100 Life Points and has Master Kyonshee and Kung-fu Nyan Nyan on the field. It seems like I'm the only one here paying attention to this duel because the gang is stuffing their faces and Grandpa is in too much pain to notice.
"Now I activate Luminous Clouds to sacrifice my two monsters to summon Dragon Lady in attack mode!" Vivian says, "And next I equip her with Lightning Saber, to raise her attack points! Now, attack his Dark Magician!" Yami is now down to 3200 Life Points, "Now use your special ability to land a direct attack!"
Yami's down to 1800 Life Points. I clench my fists again, and it takes all of my strength to not tackle Vivian at this point. "My move!" Yami says, "I play Big Shield Gardna in defense mode! Then I place one card face-down and end my turn."
"Dragon Lady, rid the field of Big Shield Gardna!"
"Activate Mirror Force!"
"Well, I activate Snowfall Sword! It cancels the effect of your Mirror Force!" Big Shield Gardna is now destroyed, "Now I'll activate Flying Dragon Whirl! This allows me to discard four dragon-type monsters from my hand to raise Dragon Lady's attack points! Now attack him directly!"
"Guess again! I discard Kuriboh from my hand to reduce any damage I would've taken to 0!"
"What?! Darn it! I was so close to having you all to myself!"
Why can't that woman just shut her face for once? I clench my fists even harder, which I'm surprised they haven't started bleeding yet. "I'm going to end this duel now!" Yami says, "First, I play my Skilled Dark Magician in attack mode! Next, I activate Pot of Greed! Then I play Emblem of Destroyer to add Buster Blader to my hand! Then I play Monster Reincarnation to return my Dark Magician from my Graveyard to my hand. And for every magic card I activate Skilled Dark Magician gains a spell counter, and I just activated three. Now I can sacrifice my Skilled Dark Magician and its spell counters to summon Dark Magician to the field! Next, I play Polymerization to fuse together my Dark Magician and Buster Blader to summon Dark Paladin! And it gains 500 attack points for each monster on the field and in our Graveyards!"
"B-but I just sent four dragons to my Graveyard!"
"Yes. Dark Paladin, wipe out Dragon Lady and the rest of her Life Points! Now it's time for you to pay up your end of the bargain."
Oh thank god he won. "Nooo! It's not fair!" Vivian says.
"Yeah, it is. You made a deal with Yami and you lost." I say.
Vivian sighs and then jumps off of the table toward Grandpa and jabs his back once again; curing him. We watch her leave the restaurant as the rest of the gang goes to see if Grandpa is okay. Yami jumps down from the table and I kiss him, "I'm so glad you won." I say.
He smirks, "I didn't see jealousy on your face before, did I?" he says.
"I wasn't jealous."
"Yes, but that's what you say. I know you too well to tell you're lying though."
It annoyed me how the animators didn't even tell us how the duel started off, would it kill them just to animate another freaking like 2 minutes? And 'love slave' was the Japanese dialogue, and I liked that better than the idea 'of only one date' like in 4Kids. And I'm quite proud of myself for making that last cute scene.
