I only own OC in this story. Yu-Gi-Oh belongs to Konami, Kazuki Takahashi, etc. Support the official release. The lines I used towards the end of this chapter comes from the original "Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters" eng sub, episode 54-55-ish on . The trade mark joke towards the end of the chapter is from LittleKuriboh's "Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series" on youtube. This chapter, as well as all previous chapters and future chapters is just for fun.

"This is stupid," Lucas and Jacob hid themselves behind a corner of some random building, Lucas was fiddling with the mint in his hand, "Not only do we look like creeps, but we wouldn't even know where to start". Lucas ate the mint, "Let me rephrase that, you don't even know where to start, Jacob".

"I would have an easier time looking if you'd help a bit Red," Jacob was crouched down so that "this girl can't spot him.

"Don't call me that," said Lucas, "And how is two people looking towards the same direction gonna make a search any easier".

"For a guy who doesn't really care, you sure are making many suggestions as to how we can improve our search". Jacob turned and winked at Lucas, as he noticed him eating the mint. Jacob had a stupid grin on his face, which quickly turned serious the second he turned, "So what did happen at that warehouse?"

Lucas had his arm crossed, looking at the floor, he was thinking what he could say to Jacob. "You probably won't believe me if I told you". Jacob got up and faced Lucas, "Why don't you try me?" Lucas kept quiet as Jacob returned to his searching maneuver, quickly after, Jacob came up with an idea, "Hey Red, how about this?" Lucas looked at Jacob intently, "If we can find the girl you want to 'give your most gracious gratitude', not only do you have to make her yours,"

"Which is not happening," Lucas interrupted Jacob before he could finish.

"Yet," Jacob continued, "You have to tell me everything that had happened the other day at the warehouse".

Lucas didn't want to tell anybody else what had happened with Jackal and Jellal before telling Drew. He felt as though he betrayed him as it is. But considering how long it's taking Jacob to find the girl who saved our precious Lucas, he figured why not. Jacob was his best of friends after all.

"Alright," Jacob stood up and shook hands with Lucas, as he spoke, "You got yourself a deal".

"Great," Jacob started walking ahead, "Come on. That girl can wait a bit. Right now you're going out with me and you promised me Duel Monsters".

"Don't make it seem like we're a couple," Lucas smiled at Jacob's stupidity as they headed to a somewhat distant card shop. It was odd, Lucas could've swore there was a card shop near to where they stood. Lucas quickly realised something. He turned to ask Jacob, "Who's at this card shop, Jacob?"

"Just a familiar face," said Jacob grinningly as he shoved Lucas into the cardshop, causing him to trip and fall on the floor. Everyone in the shop looked at the two students who roughhoused their way into a card shop. The second this one person turned to see the commotion, she quickly turned around, making sure she was focused on the display case full of Duel Monsters. Lucas was furious. He abruptly got up to yell at Jacob.

"What was that for?!" Jacob was grinning like an idiot. He was hinting Lucas to look where his eyes were pointing to. Lucas turned to see where Jacob was hinting to and there he saw a certain girl. The same girl who had an aura so strong but gentle. Lucas got caught in his words.

"Looks like you owe me a story," said Jacob as he held a mint up to Lucas's mouth, "You ate the other one didn't ya?"

"I hate you," Lucas told Jacob irritably.

"No you don't," said Jacob, continuing to smile like a an idiot. "So, are you gonna talk to her?"

"Not if you still have that mint in my face," Lucas grabs the mint with his mouth, lord why, and walked towards the girl.

Under his breath, Jacob said to himself, "My little Red is growing up". He held his finger up to his eye as though he was wiping away a tear.

Lucas walked up to look at the display case filled with Duel Monster cards. He stood near to the girl, trying to act casual. The girl seemed to have tensed up a bit. Lucas started to take small steps towards the girl, which seemed to have only tensed he even more.

"Excuse me," Lucas broke the silence. Jacob's smile grew, he was so proud of Lucas. The boy never had much luck with girls, but it seems that he'll be alright. "Umm… Do you come here often?" Or maybe not and make things worse. Jacob could not believe Lucas had used that old line.

The girl loosened a bit and faced Lucas. "I'm sorry?" The girl asked nervously. The second their eyes met, Lucas felt as though time had stopped, like that time they saw each other at the park.

"Sorry," Lucas seemed to have tensed up a bit himself, "What I meant to say was, have we met before?" The girl was not so tense anymore, but rather, confused.

"Not exactly?" Lucas felt like an idiot. He was trying to hard. He took a breath, and he tried again.

"I'm sorry," told Lucas, "My name is Lucas Yuki. I heard that you helped me get to the hospital".

The girl showed a hint of red in her cheeks, she tensed up again. "I-I am".

"Great, well umm.. I wanted to say thanks. And umm yea," Lucas felt too embarrassed to say anything else. He felt as though he should continue the conversation but didn't want to make a fool of himself.

"No problem," the girl responded, "My name is Reikou Kitamori". The two shook their hands awkwardly.

"I'm sorry about just now," said Lucas, "My friend, Jacob over there," Jacob sneezed, "He sort pressured a bit to be an idiot".

"What did he tell you?" Reikou seemed worried.

"Just about thanking you, which originally planned to do. He knows how I get around girls," Lucas realised what he had said and tried to fix it, "I mean how I act around girls I like," Reikou was confused again, "I mean not that I like you, or rather umm.." This constant stuttering lasted a good while.

"So," Lucas felt calmed, the confused Reikou felt as though the conversation was finally going somewhere, "What kind of deck do you use?"

"Oh. No," said Reikou, "I don't play Duel Monsters. But it seemed interesting so I would like to learn".

"Oh really," Lucas showed fear as a wild Jacob appeared, "Well Lucas here is a great duelist, if anything, he could teach ya sometimes".

"Jacob? What are ya-" Lucas got interrupted by an obnoxious Jacob.

"How about it, cutie?" Jacob seemed to have frightened Reikou, "Why not let my boy, Lucas here teach ya how to play?"

"Oh no I couldn't," said Reikou, as she really did want to learn how, "That would be too much trouble to ask for".

"It wouldn't be any trouble at all," said Lucas, Jacob with his arm wrapped around Lucas, "It's the least I could do. Let me repay you for helping me out of the warehouse".

Reikou smiled a bit, she feels good for having helped Lucas. Jacob saw this and responded with:

"Let Lucas be your loyal knight, for he owes you, fair maiden, his life and hand". Both Lucas and Reikou turned red.

"Shut it!" Lucas yelled.

"My Red. What a bright scarlet you are". Jacob mocked Lucas at his bashfulness.

"The more furious I am to be dear!" Reikou laughed at Lucas's remark, found herself blushing again, and quickly wrote down her cell number on a piece of paper.

"Here," Reikou handed Lucas her number, "For whenever you have time, we will meet up for lessons".

"Oh yea thank you. Here give me a sec," Lucas also grabbed a pen and piece of paper and wrote down his number. He handed it to Reikou, "Here. So that you'll know when I'll call you".

"Thank you," Reikou grabbed the number nervously, and quickly left the shop.

Lucas looked at the number and seemed happy, "Reikou Kitamori". He looked up to see Jacob grinning the grinniest of grins in all of grinland. "What's with that smirk?"

"My dear Little Red *sniff*. You finally got a girl's number". Lucas punched Jacob's shoulder, telling him of how much of an idiot. The two continued their window shopping for the next few hours. They decided to take a breather at a nearby cafe. Lucas got himself a cup of coffee. He wasn't to fancy about his drinks, whereas Jacob got himself a venti, 9 shot, de-cafe, something or other drink which who know if he should drink or not.

"I really don't see how you can drink all that caffeine". Lucas was used to Jacob's caffeine intake. Jacob nudged the remark and took a drink.

"I'd be a downer if I didn't," said Jacob, "So," Jacob put down his drink, "What happened the other day at the warehouse?"

Lucas practically choke on his coffee and looked at Jacob. "The warehouse".

"You can't lie," Jacob said, "We made a deal. Since I found you your girl, you got to tell who hurt you Lucas".

"That deal was a bit one sided, don't you think?" said Lucas, mockingly.

"You got a girl's number didn't you," said Jacob with his usual grin, "Now speak, Red. What happened at the warehouse the other day".

Just tell the boy what happened with Jellal. Are you not a man of your word, Lucas?

"Great, now you show up, Jackal," muttered Lucas under his breath, "Alright, so here's what happened". Lucas began telling Jacob about his meeting with Jellal, who tried to take Jackal's duel monster spirit back to their world. Lucas told Jacob about the Barrier of Ma'at, the Egyptian Gods, even the ability to see an aura around people, which Lucas now discovered what he was seeing was an individual's Duel Energy. Lucas told Jacob everything about what had happened those last 2 days. He did left out the meeting of Yubel and Ishizu. He felt as though Jacob will just say he needed to… but that's besides the point. The deal he had made with Ishizu was definitely something he didn't want Jacob to know. He would freak if knew of Ishizu's proposition. When Lucas finished telling his story, Jacob had a look of doubt or disbelief. Lucas didn't blame Jacob after he had heard. Jacob then held his hand up to his mouth, thinking about what he had just heard Lucas talk about. He then asked:

"So is Jackal here now?"

"Umm. Yes he is," responded Lucas. He wondered if Jacob actually believed his story or just saw him as crazy.

"Hello Jackal!" Jacob yelled, getting more attention to the people around, some walked away for they didn't want to catch whatever Jacob had, "My name is Jacob! It's really nice to meet you!"

Lucas stared at Jacob, baffled. He then began laughing. Jacob saw Lucas laughing, feeling proud of himself. Behind Luca, Jackal was floating, wondering why Jacob was being, unintellectual.

"You're a jerk," said Lucas wiping a tear from his eye, still chuckling, "If you don't believe me, you could just tell me".

"You know exactly what I'm doing," said Jacob as he took a sip from his drink, "Of course I believe you. I know you'll tell me the truth. And you know I wouldn't lie to you. It just seemed after all of that, and the awkward position I got you in with Reikou earlier, you needed a good laugh". Jacob gave a wink.

"Seriously, what would I do without ya," said Lucas as he held his fist up to Jacob. Jackal saw this and was baffled by his actions. Jacob raised his fist and hit Lucas's.

"Probably crying about not having a girl's number," responded Jacob.

"Oh you can go die for all I care," said Lucas sarcastically.

"Wah," Jacob said mockingly, "I'm Lucas and my friend is dead. Also I can't get a girl's number".

"And I'm Jacob," said Lucas, "And I'm an idiot who's willing to sleep with a cup of caffeine".

"You're just jealous". The two burst into laughter. After what had happened in the past two days, Lucas felt glad to be where he was. Jackal, as well as many strangers, stared at the two as though they were mad. Lucas was grateful to have a friend like Jacob, he knew just what to do to cheer Lucas up. Jacob was also happy to have Lucas as a friend. Lucas was the only guy who truly understood Jacob, and vice versa. The bond between the two could never be broken. Jacob didn't bother asking Lucas about his eyes' ability, or why he was able to see Jackal. The two stayed at this cafe for hours, making silly noises. It wasn't long till one of the managers who weren't familiar with Lucas's and Jacob's shenanigans had kicked the two youngsters out of the cafe for disrupting people's peace.

…

Both Lucas and Jacob had walked towards central plaza, complaining about that new superviser at the cafe. It was getting late, the moon was out, but you couldn't see any stars in the night sky due to the lights being given off from the surrounding buildings and screens advertising some fast food place.

"You'd think Lance would've warned that guy about us," said Jacob as he looked around their surroundings. He felt as though the atmosphere was heavy. Lucas noticed this immediately, as he responded:

"You'd think. But if anything, Lance did tell that guy about you being the reason for their lack of caffeine".

"Or maybe he was just jealous because he couldn't have a date like you or me," said Jacob jokingly, as Lucas nudged his shoulder. "Say Lucas, have you noticed something strange about this area?"

"I did," said Lucas as he was quickly glancing over each person without drawing too much attention to himself. Lucas's eyes widened as he noticed every few people were giving off an aura of Duel Energy. Some gave off more energy than others, but the amount of Duel Energy being emitted was quite the view for Lucas. "Alot of the people here are duelists".

"How can you tell?" said Jacob but then remembered what Lucas had said earlier about him being able to see people's Duel Energy. "Oh yea. How does it look like?"

"None of these people had the same amount of energy as that Jellal guy had. But still, a majority of them is more noticeable than most people," said Lucas.

Is it Possible that there might be some sort of event going on?

I didn't hear of any event happening, said Lucas in his thought. Conveniently enough, Lucas learned to communicate to Jackal with his thoughts so that people didn't think of him as some wierdo who talks to himself. It'd be difficult trying to explain that.

"Hey Lucas! Jacob!" yelled a familiar voice from the distance. A young man was walking towards both Lucas and Jack. He was about a couple inches taller than the two, he had blonde hair, a black bow tie, and the dress outfit which was similar to Lucas's main outfit, which only lacked a crimson red vest. This person did, however, wore a black apron which was wrapped around his waist, not covering any part of his upper body.

"Well speak of the devil," said Jacob, "Aren't you suppose to be working tonight, Lance?"

"We had a new superviser transfer to our shop today," responded the young man, who we now knew as Lance, "So they let me leave early. I was standing over there by these other guys, trading some stuff, and then I saw you guys. So I figured why not come say hi".

"Did you get anything worth a trade?" asked Lucas.

"Ehh," responded Lance, "Good for more trading but not good to improve my deck. I guess I'll have to rely on my skills as they are now to get through this tournament".

"Tournament?" said both students.

"Didn't you hear? Seto Kaiba is going to be hosting a new tournament some time soon," said Lance. He looked around, hinting towards the duelists surrounding them. "Word got out that Kaiba was going to announce the details for this tournament at this location around this time".

"Woah a new tournament hosted by Seto Kaiba," said Jacob, "And all these people are going to participate in it". Lucas was excited but also felt skeptical. He couldn't believe it was actually happening. He wasn't sure whether he should be happy or upset, after meeting with Ishizu.

"So you guys are going to participate, right?" asked Lance.

"Of course we are," said Jacob, "You better try to catch up to us in the Semi-Finals," Jacob looked over at Lucas and noticed something was troubling Lucas. Lucas saw Jacob's worrisome eyes and quickly responded:

"That is if it's that kind of tournament," said Lucas, "But either way, I'm making sure I'll take you two down". Jacob worried less and let his arrogance get to him and began arguing. Lance laughed at the two. He always enjoyed their company. After a couple of minutes have passed, until suddenly Kaiba's face appeared onto all the monitors in central plaza.

"Fellow duelists," spoke Kaiba on the monitors, "Listen Carefully. In one week, in this very same town, Kaiba Corporation will host a Duel Monsters tournament!" At this moment, many people, including Lance and Jacob, cheered and filled with joy at hearing this occurring. Lucas was curious tho; how will this tournament be set up? "Duelists must meet two prerequisites," continued Kaiba, "They must have a deck of 40 cards, including one rare card. Also…" the video on the monitors quickly lowered from Kaiba's face down towards his arm, where he held a strange contraption. This device was silver with ten blue slots, 5 of them were placed along the front side of the device, with bits of red here and there. I swear if this is another machine to make holographic projections of a card game..Anyways, Kaiba presented the new device, "They must also have in their possession this new Duel Disk System… trademark." The machine shimmered, and many people were astounded but somewhat baffled by this strange contraption. Many people in the crowd were yelling out, as they were confused as to what it is.

"Duels will be played by Battle City rules," continued Kaiba, as if we knew what Battle City is, "And there is an ante rule. The loser must give the rarest card in their deck to the winner," This shocked Lucas.

So if you lose, then you lose me to a commoner?

Are you mister high and royal? Thought Lucas, There's no way we'll lose.

"The final champion will acquire the rarest cards of everyone". Said Kaiba. Everyone were ecstatic about this tournament. Many asked of the stadium in which the arena will be. Out of nowhere, a helicopter had flown over the crowd with Kaiba stepping out and hanging on to the rails. He stared at a person in particular, which couldn't be seen from where the three were standing. After the audience were left in awe. Kaiba had lift his arm, with his Duel Disk still attached, into the air, pointing towards the sky and shouted:

"The stage of the battlefield will be all of Domino City!" Continued Kaiba, "In one week, this town will become Battle City!"