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Chapter 10
The next day Jack's group was out looking for more people to duel for locator cards. So far they didn't find anybody who looked up to dueling, granted it was ten in the morning. People would probably only be up right now if they were heading to work or extremely active and were working out. After about an hour of unsuccessful searching they noticed some familiar faces walking in their direction. It was Carly, Serenity, Tea, and Mai.
"Well, look who we run into again," Akiza said catching the group's attention.
The girls stopped in their tracks.
"Oh, hey guys," Carly greeted.
"What are you all doing out at this hour?" Crow asked.
"We went shopping," Mai said.
"Why so early though?" Akiza questioned.
"There was a huge sale today," Tea replied.
"Well, I'm just glad that there wasn't too big of a crowd today," Carly said. "So you guys didn't make me push through a million vicious shoppers just to get you through."
"Oh come on Carly," Serenity said. "At least you found something that you like this time."
"What did she find?" Jack enquired.
"I found a sword," Carly replied.
"I still can't believe you bought that expensive thing," Tea said.
"Why?" Carly questioned. "It's not like I was short on money. Seto gave me some since he forgot my birthday."
"So you spent it on a sword?" Akiza asked.
"Yeah, girly things don't really impress her," Tea said.
"I'd hope you knew that already," Carly replied. "You've known me for like forever."
"Hey, since you brought up Kaiba earlier," Mai said. "Aren't you supposed to be helping him with a project or something today?"
"Crap, you're right," Carly said. "I better head there now.
"I still find it hard to believe that Kaiba needs your help with something," Tea said.
"Seto might be rich and a douchebag," Carly said. "That doesn't mean even he doesn't need help sometimes though."
"Yeah, but it seems like it's always only from you," Mai said.
"Whatever I'll see you all around" Carly answered.
With that said Carly jogged off, leaving the girls with Jack's group. There was a minute if awkward silence before Mai finally spoke.
"Well, I guess we should go now," she said.
"Yeah, we're supposed to meet up with the guys," Tea said. She looked for Serenity who was talking to Crow only a few feet away.
"Serenity," Tea said catching the auburn girl's attention.
Serenity looked at Tea and gave her a questioning look.
"We should go," Tea said.
Serenity nodded and said a goodbye to Crow.
"Well, see you all around," Mai said.
The girls walked away leaving Jack's group to stand there.
"Now what?" Crow questioned.
"Let's keep looking for opponents," Jack said.
The group walked all the way down to downtown Domino.
"Hey," a voice called.
Everyone turned to see a boy, probably about 18 standing before them. He had spiked black hair and brown eyes, and was dressed in a green tank top, black jeans, and black boots.
"Can we help you with something?" Aliza questioned.
"Yeah, you can help me by dueling me," he said pointing to Akiza.
"I'm guessing you don't know who I am," Akiza said. "I'll accept though."
"How can I not know who the Black Rose is," the boy said. "That's why I challenged you."
"Really, mind telling me your name?" Akiza asked.
"It's Riku," the boy said.
"Well Riku," Akiza said activating her duel disk.
"Let's duel," they said in unison.
"Since you're a lady I'll let you make the first move," Riku said.
"How kind of you," Akiza said sarcastically.
Turn 1: Akiza
Akiza draws "Card Trooper." In her hand is "Lonfire Blossom,"
"Book of Moon," "Royal Decree," "Dandylion," and "Effect Veiler."
She summons "Lonfire Blossom" in defense position (500/1400) she also sets a card and ends her turn.
Turn 2: Riku
Riku draws "Goblin Black Ops." In his hand is "Summoner Monk," "Goblin Beggar," "Recurring Nightmare," "Soul Rope," and "Turret Warrior." He summons "Goblin Beggar" in defense position (1000/2000). He ends his turn.
Turn 3: Akiza
Akiza draws. She sets another card face down and ends her turn.
"What's Akiza thinking?" Crow questioned.
"She must have some sort of plan," Jack replied.
Meanwhile
Yusei and the twins were walking around as well looking for opponents.
"Who do you think we should duel?" Luna asked.
"I don't know," Yusei said.
"Why can't we just find somebody already?" Leo questioned.
"We don't want to duel the wrong people Leo," Luna stated.
Leo looked around at all the passing pedestrians with duel disks. It took him a while before one finally caught his attention. It was a boy, probably around his age with bright red hair and dark gray eyes. He was wearing a purple polo shirt, white knee shorts, and black and white sneakers.
"Hey," Leo yelled.
The boy turned around and gave Leo a questioning look.
"You want to duel me?" Leo asked.
"Sure, why not?" The boy said activating his duel disk.
"Cool what's your name?" Leo asked.
"It's Spencer," the boy replied.
"Well Spencer," Leo said. "I hope you're prepared to lose," Leo stated.
"Me, lose, I don't think so," Spencer said.
"Let's duel," both boys said in unison.
"Yeah, go Leo!" Luna exclaimed cheering on her twin.
"I'll let you have the first move," Leo said.
"Thanks," Spencer replied.
Turn 1: Spencer
Spencer draws "Cloudian-Acid Cloud." In his hand is "Pot of Duality," "Masked Chameleon," "Light of Intervention," "Cloudian-Smokeball," and "Cloudian-Ghost Fog." He summons "Cloudian-Ghost Fog" in Defense Position (0/0) and ends his turn.
"Why would he summon a monster with no attack or defense points?" Luna asked.
"It has to have some kind of effect," Yusei said.
Turn 2: Leo
Leo draws "Junk Box." I his hand is "Morphtronic Boarden", "Morphtronic Celfon," "Morphtronic Radion," "Mirror Force," and "Giant Trunade." He summons "Morphtronic Celfon" in Attack Position (100/100). Thanks to its special effect Leo can roll a six-sided die. It lands on four, so Leo can reveal four cards from the top of his deck and special summon a Level 4 or lower "Morphtronic" monster. He summons "Morphtronic Radion in Attack Position (1000/900). Thanks to its effect "Morphtronic Celfon" gains 800 attack points (900/100). "Morphtronic Celfon" attacks "Cloudian-Ghost Fog." It is destroyed because it is weaker, but Leo sees that Spencer doesn't lose any life points though.
"What the…?" Leo questioned.
"Thanks to my "Cloudian- Ghost Fog" my monster is destroyed but I don't receive any damage," Spencer said. "That's not all though. Now I can put fog counters equal to the level of the monster you destroyed my cloudian with. So there's a fog counter on your celfon."
"Well my turn isn't over yet," Leo said. "My Morphtronic Radion can attack you directly."
Spencer: 4000-3000 Life Points.
Leo sets one card and ends his turn.
"Well Leo's in the lead," Luna said.
"Yeah, but what is that fog counter going to do?" Yusei asked.
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Back to Akiza's Duel
Turn 4: Riku
Riku draws. He summons "Battle Warrior" in Attack Position (700/1000). Then he tributes it to special summon "Turret Warrior" (1200/2000). Since it was special summoned it gains attack points equal to "Battle Warrior," (1900/2000). He orders it to attack "Lonfire Blossom." It is destroyed since it is weaker. Riku ends his turn.
Turn 5: Akiza
Akiza draws. She summons "Cauis the Shadow Monarch" in Attack Position (2400/1000). Next she activates her face down card "Mind Control" this allows her to target one of her opponents monsters until the end phase but she can't tribute or attack Riku with it. So she takes control of "Turret Warrior." Since Riku now controls no monsters she can attack him directly with "Cauis the Shadow Monarch."
Riku: 4000-1600 Life Points.
"Dammit," Riku said.
"Alright, Akiza got him good!" Crow exclaimed.
"Yeah, but it's not over yet," Jack confirmed.
Akiza ends her turn, so "Turret Warrior" goes back to Riku.
Turn 6: Riku
Riku draws. He summons "Goblin Black Ops" in Attack position (1300/0). This card can attack Akiza directly so it does. After it attacks it is switched to Defense Position. Riku ends his turn.
Akiza: 4000-2700 Life Points.
Turn 7: Akiza
Akiza draws. She summons "Debris Dragon" in Attack Position (1000/2000). Its effect allows her to summon a monster with 500 attack points or less from her graveyard. So she special summons "Lonfire Blossom." Next she has "Debris Dragon" attack "Goblin Black Ops." It is destroyed but Riku does not lose any life points because it was in Defense Position. Then she has "Cauis the Shadow Monarch" attack Riku directly. He loses his remaining life points, ending the duel.
"No way," Riku said. "I can't believe I lost."
"You're a pretty good duelist Riku," Akiza said holding out her to him.
"Thanks," Riku said shaking her hand.
He pulled out his locator card and handed it to her. "It was an honor dueling the Black Rose."
With that said he took off.
"Well, what should we do now?" Akiza asked.
"Why don't we see if we can find the others?" Jack suggested.
Akiza and Crow nodded and the group headed off.
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Back to Leo's Duel
Turn 3: Spencer
Spencer draws. He summons "Masked Chameleon" in Attack Position (1600/1100).Thanks to its effect Spencer brings back "Cloudian- Fog Ghost" in Defense Position. He orders "Masked Chameleon" to attack "Morphtronic Boarden." It is destroyed since it is weaker. Spencer then ends his turn.
Leo: 4000-2900 Life Points.
Turn 4: Leo
Leo draws. He summons "Morphtronic Videon" in Attack Position (1000/1000). He then uses the card "Double Tool C&D" to "Morphtronic Videon" giving it an additional 1000 attack points (2000/1000). He has it attack "Masked Chameleon." It is destroyed since it is weaker. Leo ends his turn. "Morphtronic Videon's" attack points go back down since it is the end of his turn. Since it has a card equipped to it though, its attack points increase by 800, (1800/1000).
Spencer: 3000-2600.
Turn 5: Spencer
Spencer draws. He summons "Splendid Venus" in Attack Position (2800/2400); because of its effect all non-Fairy-type monsters lose 500 attack and defense points, "Morphtronic Videon" (1300/500), "Morphtronic Celfon" (500/500).
"Oh no," Luna said. "Leo's doomed. "
"I wouldn't bet on that Luna," Yusei said.
"Why?" Luna questioned.
"Don't forget, Leo still has a face down card.
Spencer orders "Splendid Venus" to attack "Morphtronic Videon." "Splendid Venus" unleashes its attack. Leo activates his face down card, "Mirror Force." Spencer's monster's attack is directed right back at it and "Cloudian- Ghost Fog." They are destroyed and Spencer loses the rest of his life points. Leo wins the duel.
"Oh man," Spencer said. "I lost?"
"Hey, don't be too hard on yourself," Leo said. "It was a really good duel."
"Thanks," Spencer replied.
He pulled his locator card out of his pocket and handed it to Leo.
"You're a pretty good duelist Leo," Spencer said. "Well, bye now."
And Spencer turned to leave.
"Great job Leo," Luna said.
"Thanks," Leo replied. "So what should we do now?"
"Maybe we should find the rest of the group," Yusei suggested. "They should be up and moving by now."
"Okay," the twins replied.
So the three of them went off to search for the others.
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Yugi, Joey, and Mai were out looking for opponents as well, and of course, Tristan, Tea, Duke, and Serenity were with them.
"So who are you guys going to duel today?" Serenity asked.
"We don't know," Mai replied.
"Yeah, we can't just duel the first people we see," Joey said. "We need real opponents."
"Hey guys look who it is," Tea said pointing out in front of the group.
Everyone looked to see Misty,Mina,Kalin, and Trudge standing by a music shop looking in the window.
"Hey," Yugi called out to them.
The whole group turned around at the sound Yugi's voice and saw the group approaching them.
"Oh, hi everybody," Mina greeted.
"What are you guys up to?" Tristan asked.
"We're actually just looking around," Misty said. "Acting like regular tourists is actually kind of exciting."
"Really?" Mai questioned.
"Hey, when you travel around for work it's nice to be able to act like a regular tourist," Misty stated.
"Ok, fair enough," Mai stated.
"How come Carly isn't with you guys?" Kalin asked.
"She's helping Kaiba with a project," Yugi stated.
"What kind of project?" Trudge asked.
"We honestly don't know," Duke replied.
"Well, well, well, look who it is," a familiar accented voice said.
Everyone turned to see none other than Bakura.
"What are you doing here?" Joey questioned.
"I'm in the tournament like the rest of you, in case you forgot," Bakura replied.
"How do we know you didn't show up because we mentioned Carly?" Tea questioned.
"Come now, we're not still going on about that are we?" Bakura asked. "You all know that I'm going to see her very soon."
"You guys want to see something?" Joey whispered to Trudge.
"What is it?" Trudge asked.
"Bakura has somewhat of a spilt personality," Tristan added in a whisper. "He can do a complete 180."
"Actually, Carly was talking about you the other day," Joey stated.
"Really, and what did she say?" Bakura said sounding a bit more cheerful and less sinister.
"Just that she missed you," Yugi added.
"That's it?" Bakura questioned.
"Yeah, pretty much," Tristan said.
"I think you're all lying," Bakura said. "She had to have said more."
"Why would we lie to you Bakura?" Tea questioned. "You're pretty good at detecting that kind of stuff."
"We'd be lying to you if we told you she said she didn't miss you," Mai added.
"There has to be more, tell me," Bakura demanded.
"No we swear that's it," Yugi declared.
"You all suck," Bakura stated. "I'm out of here."
Then like that Bakura was off.
The 5Ds group couldn't believe what just occurred.
"Did that really just happen?" Mina asked.
'Yeah, it pretty much did," Serenity replied.
"You're right, that did seem like a complete 180 personality change," Trudge stated.