And I'm back with more lovely duels to write out for you, by the way, Yugi is the Other Yugi (Yami, Pharaoh, whatever) for this chapter. I'm not calling him Yami or Pharaoh for a while cuz at this point of the story they don't know who he is. Yup, Yami is taking over Yugi's body for this chapter,
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the characters (cept my own)
"So I've got three star chips, I need seven more to get into the castle." Yugi said.
"I've got one." Jounouchi said pumping his fist in the air, everybody sweat dropped.
"The duelists here are strong, can Jounouchi make it?" Honda asked out loud. Kim frowned at him
"Of course he will Honda." Kim said, Cat nodded in agreement with Kim
"You don't need to be optimistic for him, be more realistic." Honda told her, Kim sighed,
"I know Jounouchi can do it." She replied looking over at Jounouchi who was standing on a cliff.
"Then I guess the best we can do is cheer him on." Honda said, Anzu nodded in agreement
"Wow Kim, you sure were defensive for Jounouchi." Cat said grinning, Kim sighed
"It's not like that Cat, he and I go way back, I suppose maybe at one time I kinda liked him, but he's one of my oldest and best friends so of course I'm gonna cheer him on." Kim explained, Cat looked embarrassed for trying to set them up.
"I see." She murmured,
"I'm gonna duel next!" Jounouchi said boldly, Honda couldn't help it
"Be sure to pick a weak duelist," he advised,
"Remember Jounouchi you must be careful where you duel because they can get weaker or stronger," Yugi reminded him "I'm sure other duelists have figured this out by now."
"What field works best for your deck Jounouchi?" Ryou asked
"Well I have mainly warriors and beast warriors so the plains." Jounouchi replied flipping through his deck.
"Well then let's stick around here." Yugi said,
"Good, I don't want to walk anywhere." Kim sighed as she sat down looking up at the sun,
"We're done give me your star chips." A familiar voice said, everybody jolted
"It's coming from over there," Ryou pointed at a duel box and they all ran to see who it was, a blonde young woman with a purple jacket, white revealing shirt, and short skirt giggled cheerfully as she placed star chips into her glove, across from her a boy in a yellow and black striped shirt sulked.
"Mai Kujaku! She already has four star chips?" Jounouchi exclaimed.
"I went easy on you cuz you're a girl, but that's not the only thing that bothered me. What you did with your cards….how did you do that?" he asked her, Mai only winked,
"That is my secret," she said mysteriously before leaving then stopping upon seeing Yugi and Jounouchi,
"Yugi!" she cried cheerfully with a sugary smile that made Kim cringe and Ryou dodged behind Kim. "how are your duels going?"
"Not bad," Yugi replied smirking, just ready for her to challenge him to a duel.
"Well, I've decided…I want to duel…You Jounouchi!" she declared pointing at him. Everybody's eyes nearly fell out of their sockets and even Yugi gave a small jolt,
"What?" they all asked in unison
"Me?" Jounouchi asked
"Well…as a duelist I want to duel you Yugi, but look what happened to Weevil. I need to crush the weaklings and collect my star chips then I'll duel you." Mai explained, Jounouchi scowled at the comment,
"Jounouchi, you're not strong enough to beat that woman," Anzu told him,
"If you lose now it's all over, decline the offer." Honda advised,
"Yugi…tell him." Anzu pleaded taking his arm, Yugi smirked
"Do your best Jounouchi," he encouraged. Jounouchi grinned,
"Knew you would say that." He said
"But Jounouchi!"
"If I turn away now then whenever I look at the sky, or the sun, or anything wonderful then I'll feel like a coward, sure I'm a little worried, but if there's another person in me then I want him to be cool." Jounouchi explained smiling at them all
"I get it, Sorry I told you to back out." Honda said,
"Do your best Jounouchi, beat her!" Kim encouraged giving him a smile, Jounouchi grinned at her then followed Mai to a duel box trembling from fear, nerves, and excitement. The two sat down while everybody shouted words of encouragement, Jounouchi had a freak out moment when he noticed the dueling table and how 3D it looked, but he regained his composure and staked his only star chip.
"Mai, can I ask you a question? Why are you in this tournament? Honor? Money?" Jounouchi asked,
"Both, when I win the prize money I can travel the world!" Mai exclaimed. Everybody outside the duel box sweat dropped,
"That's a pretty weak reason," Jounouchi replied to her
"How dare you! What about you?"
"I'm here…to save a life." Jounouchi responded quietly. Mai's anger subsided at the look in his eyes and his words,
"You can do this Jounouchi!" Kim called out to him
"Show her who's boss!" Cat cried
"As long as we support him our friendship will help Jounouchi win." Anzu said determinedly, Kim and Cat looked at each other confused.
"Er….right Anzu."
Duel Start
Jounouchi drew his five cards studying each one in his hand, he looked up to see Mai's cards face down
"Wh-What are you doing?" he asked
"I already know my cards," Mai said with a sweet smirk, outside the duel box everybody sat there looking appalled and disbelieving, "My first card…Harpy Lady." A hologram of the card appeared.
"I counter with Tiger Axe, and he gets a boost because of the field. ATTACK!"
"No good, the Harpy can fly!" Mai exclaimed, thinking that this duel was hers, not only was Jounouchi confused about her tricks but he was an amateur as well.
The duel continued on as Mai kept Jounouchi at bay with her psychic powers and Jounouchi just couldn't concentrate,
"Harpy attack the warrior!" Mai said as her harpy lady now with 2490 attack points attacked Jounouchi's monster.
"Ug, does she really have ESP? how can I win?" Jounouchi moaned,
"It's just a trick Jounouchi!" Yugi called, Jounouchi's head bowed as he clenched his teeth,
"Come on Jounouchi!" Anzu encouraged,
"Hey you there!" Mai said pointing to Anzu, the girl looked at Mai confused "What was it you said earlier? If you shout then the duelist will hear your feelings and he'll win?" mai asked mockingly, "Then give this wimp all the feelings you've got to make him win, but this stuff is pointless. A duelist can only trust him or herself." Mai explained, Anzu looked a little hurt
"Why you-" Kim started forwards the duel box but both Ryou and Cat grabbed hold of her, "Don't you dare say things like that Mai! I may not be a true duelist but even I know that's not true!" Kim yelled angrily,
"Hmph, you're nothing but a silly little girl who's just a cheerleader on the sides cheering on a loser," Mai told her smugly, Kim growled a horrible sound emitting from her throat obviously Mai struck a nerve or two.
"Take that back!" she yelled too angry to really think of a good comeback.
"Calm down Kim," Cat said gently, "Take a deep breath and count to ten." She advised. Kim closed her eyes and did what Cat instructed
"One…."
"Listen up boy," Mai started
"Two….three…four…."
"Today's friends are tomorrows enemies, you can't play with today's friends and expect them to be with you forever…"
"Five…" Kim struggled with that one
"Take my words of advice from today's defeat." Mai said
"THAT'S IT!" Kim yelled lunging forward, good thing Cat and Ryou still had a tight grip on her shoulders or Kim would have major finance issues to pay for a new duel station and possibly kicked off the island. However Yugi could control his anger.
"Mai! I'll make Jounouchi win with just one word," he declared stepping forward "Jounouchi answer this riddle. What's one thing you can show but can't see?"
Everybody but Jounouchi and Kim looked baffled by that. "Ha! That's some strategy, good one, I'd like to see how that goes." Mai said laughing,
"Just count to ten." Cat muttered to Kim, she too was starting to get mad at Mai. Jounouchi looked down lost in his thoughts until something strong hit his nose.
"I know your trick! Y-You're using perfume on your cards so you know which ones are which!" he accused, Mai looked both startled and guilty,
"Good thing his cold cleared up." Kim mumbled calming just slightly,
"Man that freaked me out so much, I thought it had to do with the Occult, but I'm onto you now you faker!"
"So you saw through my strategy, big deal, you couldn't beat me in a hundred years!" Mai exclaimed angrily.
"Funny, with my friends at my side I feel like you're not so tough after all, I'll take you on this 100 years thing. I play Baby Dragon in defense mode." (Attack: 1200 defense: 700)
"Good choice a card for babies, at least you were smart to put it in defense mode." Mai teased, "I play Kaleidoscope duplicating my Harpies and making three!"
"What now there's more?" Jounouchi exclaimed
"Aw man he's already barely up to one!" Anzu commented,
"Hang in there man!" Honda shouted,
"Don't give up Jounouchi, remember Mai depends on her Harpy and backs it up with many spells and traps, if you defeat that then her deck is useless." Yugi yelled. Jounouchi's eyes widened at that. "There is a way for you to win, you have to draw that card I gave you."
Jounouchi looked panicked for a moment but after squeezing his eyes shut he extended his hand to draw. "Please let this be it, oh please oh please oh please!" he begged, he drew the card and smiled, "Alright! I play time wizard! It can speed up time turning Baby Dragon into an adult Dragon!"
"So what? My harpies are still stronger, go harpy si-HUH?"
On the field the baby dragon had grown but the Harpy sisters had become old and wrinkled, their beauty gone.
"Heh Heh, 100 years went by and the Harpies grew old, too bad Mai Kajuku, not only losing but you lost your beauty too, how cruel." Yugi chuckled darkly, Cat stared at him curiously.
"W-wow, I didn't know it could do that, Thousand Year Dragon destroy her harpies." the dragon let out a burst of fire burning the three Harpies.
"I-I lost?" Mai shrieked as her life points fell to zero.
"HURRAY!" the other five friends cheered, Cat and Kim hugged each other laughing and yelling "he did it!"
"Mai, I may not be a true duelist but I can tell you theres one thing that doesn't change after 100 years. It's something you can show...but can't see." Jounouchi told her giving her a thumbs up, Mai only looked irritated.
The friends walked off all grinning, but the one that was grinning the most was Jounouchi, he kept staring at his star chips and giggling.
"Jounouchi's been staring at his star chips and grinning like that for 30 minutes." Anzu mused
"I don't blame him, I still can't believe he beat that chick in his first battle." Honda commented, Kim grinned hardly believing it herself but knowing it was true. Cat continued to stare at the Other Yugi curiously, suddenly Jounouchi's stomach rumbled.
"Ug, I'm starving, when do we have lunch?" he asked,
"What do you mean? We ate all our snacks on the boat and there's no restaurants here." Ryou commented, Jounouchi and Honda looked crestfallen.
"Aw man," Jounouchi moaned then rounded on Anzu, Kim, and Cat "It's your fault girls, why didn't you think of this? You're girls you're supposed to make lunch," he said, Anzu and Kim glared daggers whilst Cat looked baffled.
"Warning, sexist comment." Anzu told him,
"Hey that's uncalled for Jounouchi." Ryou said stepping in, Jounouchi scowled at him,
"This is a small problem, the tournament lasts two days, we can't not eat or drink." The Other Yugi said.
"A small problem huh?" Kim asked frowning at him sarcastically, she didn't really bother to tell the group that she did have some granola bars, cereal, and ramen in her bag, she was hoping to save it for a midnight snack.
"Well...it all comes down to this." Honda said as he extracted a manual like book out of his bag "We're gonna have to see what mushrooms aren't poisonous or anything." Both Kim and Jounouchi paled
"What? I'm not eating any mushrooms!" Jounouchi yelled, Kim's face turned green at the thought, she hated mushrooms. Jounouchi sniffed.
"Wait, I can smell something."
"There's a surprise of the century," Cat murmured, Jounouchi followed the scent
"It smells good, it's coming from the ocean." he said starting forwards to it
"You have got to be kidding me." Kim sighed as she followed her friends
"Just like his duel with Mai his nose is like a dog's." Honda commented, a further aways the group found four fish frying near a fire, it did smell good. Jounouchi's and Honda's mouths watered
"Look at that, food!" Jounouchi said excitedly he looked around, after spotting nobody he headed towards it
"Jounouchi! Stop that's not yours!" Anzu called, Jounouchi turned around
"Au contraire, the rules on the island is whoever steals the star chips win,"
"I'm never playing a game with you!" Anzu practically snarled,
"I'm with Jounouchi on this one!" Honda excalaimed, Ryou gulped nervously, Yugi smiled slightly as Cat sweat dropped nervously, Jounouchi took a hold of one fish and opened his mouth, savoring the scent and aroma of the fish,
At the edge of the cliff a boy with a dark complexion and dark hair was climbing up, upon seeing strangers eating his fish he grew angry
"What the...HEY YOU JERKS STOP EATING MY FISH!" he was about to storm over and give them a piece of his mind before a wave crashed into him and he fell.
"Uh...did you guys hear something?" Jounouchi asked looking over where the other boy was, shrugging he turned his attention to the fish.
"Stupid wave..." the stranger grumbled holding up a spear he charged towards the group "Alright you lowlifes put it down! Eating another ones fish!" Jounouchi's eyes widened as he leaned away,
"H-Hey, put that down!" he shouted
"You're not getting out of here alive!" the boy snarled,
"We didn't eat all of it."
"Uh, sorry but is it really worth our lives if we ate one fish?" Kim asked cowering behind Jounouchi.
"You're not a duelist are you?" Jounouchi asked, he hadn't seen the red glove the guy was wearing but Yugi and Cat sure did.
"what if I am?"
"Nah, you're a castaway!" Jounouchi exclaimed gleefully
"Who are you calling a castaway? I'm Ryota Kajiki, duelist of the Sea!" he declared. Everybody was silent for a moment,
"Heh, he doesn't seem like the type to play card games...but I guess you never know," Yugi said softly, Cat nodded in agreement. Indeed Ryota was tall and muscular wearing nothing but shorts and with that harpoon of his he sure did look menacing.
"So let me get this straight, you guys are-" he paused as Jounouchi began to snicker
"Octupus," Jounouchi said pointing to the top of Ryota's head, Ryota growled and flung it away
"Small fry."
"Hey don't throw it away! We can eat it!" Jounouchi yelled, "Our octupus!" he mourned
"So as I was saying, you guys are duelists too..." he began again but then noticed Yugi, grinning to himself he sat down and began to eat his fish, however one can't really eat when two hungry boys look at you mournfully. Sighing he gave them permission to eat. Everybody sat down excitedly and began to chow down on the fish-except Kim. Kim may have loved food but there were some certain foods she wouldn't eat such as fish. Instead she pulled out one of her packets of dry ramen and began to eat it. Cat noticed this and shook her head as she took a bite of fish and handed some to Yugi. Ryota hadn't caught enough fish for one each, so Jounouchi and Honda were sharing one, Anzu and Ryou, then Cat and Yugi. After a few minutes of chewing and swallowing everybody leaned back content and began thanking Ryota for his kindness. Then Jounouchi asked if Ryota was in the tournament for the money, Ryota replied yes and told them his tragic past where he and his dad had gone fishing but the ocean was angry that day and as a result Ryota's boat had been destroyed and his dad was missing. The six looked at him solemnly allowing him to rant about the sea.
"Well we better get going. Thanks for the fish." Jounouchi said cheerfully, they started to walk away but then something flew in the air and a harpoon landed an inch from Yugi's foot
"Yugi halt!" he shouted, Yugi did stop "I'm not dumb enough to let a big catch like you leave, especially after you took my bait."
"Bait?" Jounouchi asked
"Yeah, this is my turf, I left food for hungry duelists such as yourself to come over where the fight is in my favor. Yugi! I challenge you to a duel."
"heh, very well, I accept your challenge." Yugi replied with a smirk. Ryota pointed to a simmulator about twenty feet away from the path and they all followed him to it.
"Was he saying we were fish?" Jounouchi asked as they trudged along. Ryota and Yugi sat down
"I have the ocean and you have wasteland, is that ok?"
"Of course." Yugi told him
"Heh, you're as good as in my net, I bet two star chips."
"Ok."
"Let's do this."
"DUEL!"
It was an intense duel, what with Ryota being able to hide his monsters with the sea but eventually Yugi pulled through with his Curse of Dragon, combining it with field burner and destroying Ryota's monsters
"Arg I lose!" Ryota said through gritted teeth.
"Yes Yugi won!" Anzu said happily,
"Smells like barbeque squid!" Jounouchi exclaimed
"He pulled through!" Ryou yelled
"YAY!" Cat and Kim put in striking victory poses.
"Wow you really are good!" Ryota said cheerfully, Yugi nodded modestly as he put the two star chips in his glove "You took me down to my last star chip, but I'll start over. Let's do our best." Ryota said happily as he and Yugi clasped hands in a duelists manner.
"Congratulations Yugi!" Cat said shyly, Yugi smiled over at her his eyes softening just slightly. Kim paused upon seeing the exchanged but shrugged it off. They started off as Ryota shouted good luck to them,
"Man, there's just something about that guy you can't hate." Jounouchi said smiling fondly
"I guess all duelists have their own hopes and dreams." Anzu said,
"Well let's go look for another duelist."
"Let go of me, let me go!" a kid cried. Everybody looked to see another duelist being held by the guy that had welcomed them on the boat,
"Tough luck kid, I can see your glove is empty so that means you must leave the island."
"No, some weird kid took my star chips and cards too!" he protested. Jounouchi stepped forward
"Hey, he lost his star chips, it's not the same as losing a match!" he said angrily, the man looked at him but his expression was hard to read what with the sunglasses and all
"Other duelists are forbidden to interfere or you will be disqualified."
"What did the kid look like? I'll catch him for you." Jounouchi said, the kid looked relieved
"I couldn't see his face but he was wearing a bandana, as soon as I put my star chips and deck down he took them and ran." he explained
"Which way did he go?" Jounouchi asked, the kid pointed in a direction "hey man in black, I'm gonna go catch the thief so don't throw him off the island."
"heh, I'll think about it." the man said grinning, Kim had an uneasy feeling he wouldn't comply,
"I'll never forgive someone who takes star chips by force, star chips are a duelists life!" Jounouchi said striking a dramatic pose, everybody sweat dropped at that "Oh and by the way, I'll be taking half your star chips as payment." Jounouchi told him, the kid looked perplexed but didn't argue.
"Man he's a terrible altruist!" Honda muttered as they followed Jounouchi, if one had looked to the left they would have seen a pair of blue violet eyes peeking at them from behind some bushes. They walked a certain ways but not spotting anybody. Jounouchi was starting to feel discouraged, all the sudden Cat gasped and Yugi looked over
"Guys look! It's a boat of duelists. And they're leaving!" he exclaimed, indeed a boat with a group of people were starting to row away
"Hey that kid with the stolen star chips is on there too," Jounouchi said, the boy was sitting beside Weevil Underwood who claimed to be Japans champion but nobody gave him the respect he felt he deserved, they all glared at him.
"darn, there goes my star chips."
"that's the fate of those who lose." Yugi murmured.
"YUGI!" someone shouted from behind, they all whirled around to see a small kid with a bandana and beanie hat, the only visible features on his face were his eyes.
"It's you!" Jounouchi yelled,
"Hold it Jounouchi, it looks like he's after me." Yugi said "Kid, do you wanna duel me?" he asked, the kid nodded, Yugi pointed to the nearest simmulator
"Wow, he agreed to duel just like that?"
"how many star chips do you bet?" Yugi asked, the boy held up his five fingers, Yugi nodded and laid his down on the table
"Yugi! That kid swiped the other duelists star chips because he was careless and left his on the table!" Kim shouted at him, Yugi ignored the comment and focused on the kid who had laid five star chips on the table, Yugi was sure he was the thief because of the lack of the glove. Yugi pondered as to why the thief would go so far to steal star chips only to challenge him? Could he be?
"This is so weird, Yugi's gotta know this is the thief...so why would he accept the kid's challenge?" Honda asked
"Maybe...Yugi knows who this person is." Anzu commented her eyes widening. Cat looked at them all curiously, she certainly didn't recognize the stranger but she decided not to say anything.
Duel start!
The kid played weak monsters with no traps or spell cards to help out and Yugi easily mowed them down, the thief looked panicked
"Give up now! This game isn't so easy to win when you are using stolen cards!" Yugi shouted, the kid's eyes widened and before anyone could say or do anything he stood up and swiped all ten of the star chips,
"I told you!" Kim shouted, Yugi made to grab the kid but he evaded and ran out the simmulator.
"Wait! Stop!" Yugi yelled, Jounouchi and Honda ran forward and leaped to tackle the kid but all that happened was the two crashed painfully to the ground. Kim was ready however, having grown up with eight siblings she knew the best tactics to grab running children. Cat reached out and almost grabbed his wrist, he dodged but in his panic he didn't see Kim's sudden lunge until he felt her arms wrap around him.
"Hold still!" she growled as he thrashed madly, he twisted madly and nearly got away but Kim grabbed his wrist painfully, she really didn't like hurting kids but she couldn't be gentle with this one.
"I know who you are." Yugi said as he came forward, he grabbed onto the hat and yanked it off, long wild black hair tumbled down and the bandana fell to reveal a kids face.
"Y-You're..." Kim stuttered, she had seen him before.
Mokuba Kaiba.
YAY! i finally finished, whew, i got lazy and didn't write out the duel between Yugi and Ryota and again with mokuba and Yugi. haha, well lemme know what you think. Do you mind if i skim through duels or do you really want me to write them out? :S
Welp i hope you guys enjoyed the update, please review, to all of you who have this on your story alert and/or favs i thank you, but i ask kindly for you to review XD
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