Ranma King of Games Chapter 7

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A Lawyer comes up to Animeprime's house and rings the door bell. Animeprime answers the door.

Animeprime: Can I help you?

Lawyer: Congratulations, you are being sued by Viz comics for copyright abuse.

Animeprime: What! But how! I always say that I don't own Ranma or any of the characters and that they belong to Viz!"

Lawyer: We'll we don't give a damn. Here is your summons.

Animeprime: Sigh, fine, alright, let me call my secretary. Hey Exodia!

The clanking sound of chains are heard from inside and the lawyer realizes that the doors on Animeprime's house are over fifty feet tall. A giant orange hand reaches down and picks up the summons.

Animeprime: Go give this to my attorney.

Exodia: Growl!

Animeprime: No, Sliffer is my stock manager, Obelisk is my attorney. He's on the third floor.

Exodia: Grunt!

By now the lawyer is totally white.

Animeprime: We'll see you in court.

The lawyer hears a snort behind him and turns around to look into the blue eyes of a white dragon.

Animeprime: My butler will show you out.

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Ranma glared down the picture of Pegasus's face on the screen. It laughed and then spoke.

"Don't worry about your mother Ranma, if you listen to what I say I can guarantee her safety. Now sit down, this might take awhile." Yami came out to the surface and glared at Pegasus.

"What are you doing?! Why have you brought us to the shadow realm?!"

"Patience Ranma, all will be explained in due time. I know that you already know about the shadow games, you participated in one this afternoon before you made up or I should say made out with your girlfriend." Laughing at the blush and shock on Ranma's face he reached up and pushed the hair out of his face to show a golden metallic object where his left eye should be. Yami gasped.

"That's the."

"Millennium Eye? Why yes it is. Of course you helped make them Yami so you know that it allows me to read your mind. But now let us really get down to business. I want your puzzle; it's as simple as that. But the only way I can take it is if you lose in a duel. I could easily beat you now since you've been so drained by the shadow game, the duel with Kaiba, the run in with your little friends, and not to mention the unmentionable acts in your girlfriend's room. You have to put all of your energy into focusing to even stay conscious here. But I consider myself a sportsman and I would never stoop so low as to take advantage of you in your weakened state. But you will be dueling me soon."

"Why would I agree to that? You can't force me to duel."

"I know that, that's why I have insurance." Pegasus's Millennium Eye glowed with an eerie light and the frozen form on Nodoka glowed as well before the millennium symbol appeared on her forehead and her body phased in and out of space while Ranma watched in horror.

"What are you doing!!!!" A beam of light shot out of the symbol on Nodoka's forehead and collected into a rectangle in Pegasus's hand. It stopped glowing and revealed the grainy image of Ranma's mother in the shape of a card.

"As I'm sure you know Yami, the millennium items can snatch the soul out of a person and form them into a card. I just took half of your mothers soul so she won't fall over dead, but over time her other half will start to degrade and she will suffer a death more horrible then you can imagine. I'm holding a tournament on my private island, Duelist Kingdom, and I want you to participate. The winner must get past the elimination rounds semifinals and final round to win the tournament and the winner get to duel me personally. If you can make it all the way to me and win I'll release your mother's soul, but if you can't then I will take possession of your puzzle." Ranma growled.

"Alright, I agree to your terms, but you had better be ready to suffer the consequences when you lose." He felt a little unnerved by Pegasus's laugh and gasped as Pegasus's eye glowed and pushed him back with nothing but shadow energy.

"Don't be so confident Yami, you may have created the millennium items but I have had mine much longer then you have had yours and in that time I have increased my shadow powers to their absolute limits! Now I must leave you to prepare for your trip. And don't forget to watch the regional championships tonight; I'm sure you'll find Weevils expulsion for cheating most amusing. Farewell." The shadows started to disappear into the television and Nodoka's body took on its normal color. Once her body had unfrozen she ran over to Ranma and wrapped him in a fierce embrace.

"I'm so proud! My big manly son is going to participate in the duelist kingdom tournament." At first Ranma thought that his mother had heard everything he and Pegasus had said but then he realized that Pegasus must have implanted a different memory into his mothers mind. Suddenly he felt her sag in his arms.

"Oh my! I feel a little faint, must be from all the excitement." She sat down on the couch and closed her eyes while Ranma watched worriedly.

"Are you okay mom?"

"Oh I'll be fine Ranma don't worry about me." She looked up at the clock on the VCR and yelled.

"Oh NO!!! We're missing the Regional Championship Finals!" She grabbed the remote off of the coffee table and turned on the TV. The picture faded in to an announcer who was droning on about what the winner would receive and the new holographic dueling fields provided by KaibaCorp until the two finalists took their places. One was a short boy with big metal glasses and blue hair that was cut to look like a beetle. The other was a nineteen or twenty year old male with brown hair and brown eyes. After getting his cue from control the announcer introduced them.

"Here we are folks! First up is Weevil Underwood who is famous for his insect deck. Next is a relatively unknown duelist who has never participated in a tournament but has stunned the audience with his performance none the less. Here he is, Ashaton Nonaka! One of these contestants will be going up against Rex Raptor for the Regional championship but who will it be!!! Gentlemen, shuffle your decks and let's duel!"

Both contestants did so and drew five cards. Weevil went first.

"I'll lay two cards face down and play a monster in defense mode. Will you be able to survive my insect hoards, I'm sure that you will make a tasty snack for them." Ashaton drew a card and then placed a monster on the field.

"I'll play Flame Manipulator in attack mode and lay four cards face down." Weevil grinned.

"Running scared are we?" he suddenly became nervous at Ashaton's smirk.

"No, why should I be afraid of a cheater like you?"

"What! How dare you call me a cheater! Where's your proof?!" Ashaton rubbed a silver bracelet on his left arm and smiled.

"I watched how you dueled in the previous rounds Weevil and I was amazed that you could draw just the cards you needed at just the right time and I have three theories. One, you are the luckiest person in the whole world. Two, you somehow plant the cards you need when you draw into your hand. Or three, you don't follow the rules and limits set forth by the tournament committee. For example, you do know that you can only have three cards with the same name in a deck right?" Weevil glared but inside he was fuming.

"Of course! What do you take me for, some amateur?!"

"No, you are much too sneaky for that. Now I'm going to prove you're a cheat. First I attack your face down card with Flame Manipulator." The teenage fire wizard jumped forward and slashed down with its fist, leaving a trail of flame. It struck Ashaton's monster and caused it to flip up. But before the attack could completely destroy it, it jumped towards Ashaton's monster and latched on with giant claws before it and the Flame Manipulator both disappeared. Weevil started to laugh.

"Hyo heh heh heh! Your monster was destroyed by my Man Eater Bug! What do you say to that!" Ashaton continued to polish his armband and smiled.

"Since you are an insect duelist I knew you would have such a useful monster in your possession. The Man Eater Bug can destroy any monster on the field once it is flipped so most people put as many in their deck as the can get their hands on, but I'm betting that you break the rules when it comes to deck limits."

Weevil was starting to visibly sweat but he tried to remain composed. There was something about this guy that unnerved you.

"Well are you going to prove I cheated or not!?" Ashaton stopped polishing his bracer and moved his hand to his side of the field.

"As you wish, first I activate three of my face down cards, three Card Destructions! Now we have to each discard our old hand and draw a new one three times." Each player did so and then Ashaton spoke.

"Since I couldn't see what was in your deck I made you discard fifteen of your cards to the graveyard where I can see them." He punched a button on his display panel and a visual readout of Weevils graveyard came up. As he looked through it Weevil became nervous.

"Hey stop! You can't do that!"

"Yes I can, it's in the official rule book that a player must let his opponent look at his graveyard if the opponent wants to." He stopped and smirked.

"I just counted three Man Eater Bugs in your graveyard. The first one you used and two more from my Card Destructions. That would be just the limit set by the committee." He began to polish his arm band again.

"Now I'm going to show you for the cheat you are. I flip over my other face down card to play Forceful Sentry!" Weevil almost fell over.

"Forceful Sentry allows me to look at your hand and send one card back to your deck. Now lay them down on the field." Weevil shakily laid down his hand and an error message came up on the field.

{Error, player one has violated tournament rule 13. All players may not have more then three of the same cards in their decks unless restricted by the tournament committee. Player one has violated tournament rule 13 by having four Man Eater Bugs in his deck.}

The crowd began to uproar as the news spread that Weevil was a cheater. Weevil fell on his knees.

"This can't be happening!" Ashaton smiled and continued to rub his bracer as the referee ruled that Weevil was disqualified.

"To bad, it is."

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Ranma lay on his bed trying to fall asleep as the days events went through his mind. Nonaka had gone on to duel and beat Rex Raptor after Weevil had left in shame and had quickly disappeared after receiving his prize and invitation to duelist kingdom. The press had been fighting for a chance to interview him and find out how he had known Weevil was cheating but he had left without a trace. He put those thoughts out of his head and looked at the engraved invitation that Pegasus had sent him along with several cards he would need to register, a dueling glove, and two star chips. He started to worry about what he was going to do and what strategies he would need to add to his deck until sleep overtook him.

Yami sat in the meditation room of his home in Ranma's mind. Most people will sit and reflect on their life to gain a calm state of mind and be at peace. Yami was different since whenever he wanted to be at peace or sort out his thoughts he would go play Resident Evil on his Gamecube (The jet black kind of course.). As he sat there blasting zombies and who knows what on his big screen TV he thought back to the duel. Ashaton had been putting forth a miniscule amount of shadow energy during the game and Yami knew he had seen it before.

He swore as his character was torn apart by those damn demon dogs and walked over to a bookshelf to pull out a scroll. On it was a picture of the millennium puzzle and underneath it were the other six millennium items. He opened up the scroll even further and slapped himself on the head for not recognizing it sooner. Underneath the picture were fourteen smaller pictures of items similar to the millennium items except they were smaller and made of silver metal. Halfway down was a picture of a bracelet.

"The Century Bracer, why didn't I see it before?" Suddenly Yami doubled over with nausea as his link with Ranma was stretched. He tried to access Ranma's memory but found that he couldn't. He began to scan the mind of the person holding him now and grew angry.

"That old witch! She'll pay for this!!!"

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Cologne chuckled as she hopped from roof to roof with the Millennium Puzzle in her hands. Once Shampoo put this on she would be unstoppable. With the power of a millennium item at the amazon's disposal the kingdoms of the Musk and Phoenix tribes would finally be crushed. What Cologne didn't realize was that this millennium item held the soul of its creator and that he was royally pissed at being taken from his avatar.

"Just you wait Cologne, I've got big plan in store for you."

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Author's notes

I know many of you thought that I was going to have Yami fight Pegasus in this chapter but you'll just have to wait. For those of you who are confused about the century items just think of the Lord of the Rings. There is one powerful ring, three less powerful rings, seven even less powerful rings and eleven weak rings. In Yugioh there is the Millennium Puzzle, the six other Millennium Items and then the Century Items. The Century items are weaker versions of the millennium items and don't posses a spirit but they are still able to help their user. They are a creation of mine and my pre reader Ranko Ketchum so don't try to look for them in the TV series. I'm going to write one more chapter of this so you aren't hanging and then put it aside for a few weeks while I try to put some new ideas out on paper. C&C are more then welcome at animeprime1@hotmail.com