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Disclaimer: I don't own the Yugioh characters or storyline.
Chapter Fifty-Two
A Kid's Game
"So, when do you think they're going to announce the next matches?" Anzu asked. Jounouchi grinned.
"All's I know is, I am ready to knock some heads! Bring it on! I'm gonna knock down anyone who comes at me!" He struck a fighting pose and Yugi, Cat, Kristen, Anzu, Honda, and Rebecca all sweatdropped.
"Just don't get too excited, Jounouchi. You need to keep a cool head if you wanna win your duels."
"Yeah, you're right, Yugi. I just need to keep my calm and keep my adorable game face on."
Yugi opened his mouth to speak, but Roland came onto the TV monitor nearby, holding a microphone.
"Attention all duelists! The next round's matches have been determined. You will have thirty minutes to report to your designated dueling locations if you are in the first round of duels. Our first duel will be – Rebecca Hawkins and Cat Tsuru." Cat and Rebecca gasped and looked at each other.
The entire gang around them gave a collective gasp.
"Our next match will be Zigfried Lloyd and Katsuya Jounouchi."
Kay looked over to the monitor, fully dressed in her Black Cat garb. She frowned slightly and continued to walk forward, her heels clicking on the bricks beneath her feet.
"Oh man, you're both dueling!" Honda exclaimed, looking at Jounouchi and Cat in disbelief. The two looked at each other.
"Yugi, I want you to come see me duel!" Rebecca said quickly, not taking into regard that Jounouchi also needed/wanted support from his friends during his duel. Yugi immediately looked panicked and backed up, hating the fact that he was now torn between his friends.
Cat nervously stepped forward.
"Yugi, if you guys want to go and cheer Jounouchi on, we'll understand. I mean, he as to duel a seriously tough opponent and at least with mine and Rebecca's duel, one of your friends will emerge victorious, right?" she asked, laughing weakly. Rebecca frowned.
"Hey! I never said anything about that. I want Yugi there to cheer me on while I defeat you!" she snapped, placing her hands on her hips.
"Rebecca, please," Anzu said.
"Alright, here's what we'll do!" Jounouchi said. "Honda and Anzu will go to one duel, and Kristen and Yugi will go to the other duel. I say we flip a coin to make it fair." Everyone looked at Jounouchi in surprise.
"That's actually a really good idea!" Anzu said in amazement. Jounouchi shrugged.
"Eh, I have my moments." Honda reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver dollar.
"OK, whoever calls it will be the duel that Yugi and Kristen go watch. Jounouchi, call it."
"I think Cat should call it." Cat blinked.
"Me?" she squeaked.
"Hurry up, Cat!" Rebecca snapped and everyone frowned at her.
"Ah, ok. Um…tails?" she offered hesitantly. Honda let the coin roll down off his thumb and flip up into the air, extending his hand palm up to catch it. It landed and he slapped it onto the back of his other hand and lifted his hand up slowly and…
"Heads. Yugi and Kristen go with Jounouchi." Rebecca pouted and started whining until Yugi finally promised he'd make it up to her. She hugged him and kissed his cheek before skipping off to go to their duel location. Anzu and Kristen both shot death glares after Rebecca and the group went their separate ways.
"Well, even if Yugi won't be here to watch me duel, don't think I'm going to make this easy for you, Cat!" Cat frowned. The two were dueling in a huge, circus tent with holographic duel monsters performing various circus acts around them. Cat and Rebecca were in the center ring, a spotlight on them.
"Ok, Rebecca. But I'm not gonna be an easy opponent. I have every intention to win!" The two activated their duel disks.
"Time to duel!"
"Oh man, who do you think will win?" Honda asked.
"I don't know. It's gonna be a close one." Anzu frowned, not sure which she'd rather see win. Rebecca was super annoying, but Cat was getting a little too close to the pharaoh for Anzu's liking.
"I draw!" Rebecca said. "First card I activate is Graceful Charity. It allows me to draw three new cards and discard two to my graveyard." Rebecca drew her cards and discarded two. "Next, I'll summon my Fire Princess in attack mode and place two cards facedown, ending my turn."
A beautiful duel monster with long, silver hair and a red dress appeared on Rebecca's side of the field. Cat frowned.
"Ok then, my move!" Cat drew a card. "I summon Magician's Valkyria in attack mode!" The beautiful magician who resembled and older version of Dark Magician Girl with red hair appeared on the field. "Valkyria, destroy her Fire Princess!"
"Not so fast, I activate a trap card! Gravity Bind! It stops all monsters with four or more stars cold!"
A silver orb of energy held Valkyria in place and the same orb formed around Fire Princess. Cat smirked.
"Rebecca, you won't win using the same, tired strategies."
"Hm?"
"I remember all this from your duel with Vivian! And that's why I'm gonna play a magic card – Magic Fury. Here's how it works. If you activate a trap during my Battle Phase, I automatically get to destroy that trap and replay my Battle Phase."
"What?"
"So good-bye, Gravity Bind, and hello Valkyria!" Gravity Bind shattered and Valkyria lunged forward, twirling her staff. "Valkyria, destroy her Fire Princess."
She unleashed a ball of energy that hit Fire Princess in the stomach and destroyed her, causing Rebecca to lose 300 lifepoints.
"I'll place one card facedown and end my turn."
"Whoa, go Cat! She brought her A-game!" Honda exclaimed. Unknown to the four, Kay had taken a seat in the empty bleachers and watched the duel with interest.
"Urgh, you got lucky, Cat. But don't expect the same thing to happen twice." Rebecca drew a card. "Now, because I discard Marie the Fallen One to the card graveyard, I gain 200 lifepoints." A blue fiend with black angel wings and blonde hair appeared behind Rebecca and blew some sparkling dust on her, causing her lifepoints to rise to 3900. "Next, I'll summon Injection Fairy Lily!"
A cute little monster with red hair in a nurse's suit with a huge needle and white wings appeared.
"Attack her Valkyria!" Rebecca yelled.
"Not so fast! I activate my trap card – Negate Attack. So Lily can't use her special power or hurt my lifepoints."
"Hmph." Lily was thrown back by the trap's effect. "Fine, I set one card facedown and end my turn." Cat drew a card and grinned.
"I activate another magic card – Double Trouble!"
"What does that do?"
"If I have another copy of any monster currently on the field, I can special summon it to the field! So, I choose another Magician's Valkyria." Magician's Valkyria appeared on the field and the two identical stood side by side.
"What was the point of that?"
"Oh, you'll see. And since I special summoned my Valkyria, I summon Ebon Magician Curran in attack mode!" A small monster in a black, gothic Lolita dress with long, reddish hair appeared.
"Ha! What do you plan to do with that puny monster? It only has 1200 attack points!"
"Never judge a card by its appearance."
"My move, then!" Rebecca drew a card. "First, I gain my 200 lifepoints from my good friend Marie." Rebecca's lifepoints rose to 4100. "Next, I'll summon Ruby Dragon in attack mode!" The red dragon appeared and roared. "Now, I'll equip Ruby Dragon with Malevolent Nuzzler, raising its attack points to 2300!"
A green, elfin woman appeared and embraced Ruby Dragon, causing its attack to rise.
"Now, Ruby Dragon, attack her Ebon Magician Curran!" Ruby Dragon reared its head.
"Oh no! Cat's gonna lose over 1000 lifepoints!" Cat smirked and Ruby Dragon unleashed its attack. It flew towards Curran and then suddenly stopped and burst in midair, scattering harmlessly into the air. Rebecca gasped.
"W-what?"
"I'm surprised at you, Rebecca. Making suck a rookie mistake. You of all people should know Valkyria's special ability is that you cannot attack any other spellcaster monster besides it. And because I have two on the field, all of your attacks are useless!"
"No way!"
"Wow, what an awesome move, Cat!" Honda exclaimed.
"Ugh, I end my turn." Cat drew a card.
"My Ebon Magician Curran's special ability is now activated. You lose 100 lifepoints for every monster you have on the field, so you lose 200 lifepoints." Rebecca gasped. "Next, I'll activate Pot of Greed and draw two new cards." Cat drew new cards. "Now, I summon another Ebon Magician Curran!"
"Not another one!" Another Curran appeared.
"That's the end of my turn." Rebecca growled and drew a card, gained back 200 lifepoints from Marie.
"…I end my turn…" Cat grinned and drew another card. "My magicians will now cost you 400 lifepoints." Rebecca's lifepoints fell to 3700. "Now, it's time for this duel to really begin. I sacrifice one of my Currans to summon my Dark Magician Girl!"
Dark Magician Girl appeared on the field and winked.
"Next, I'll equip her with Magic Magnet, which will transfer the effect of all equip spells to her for the duration of the turn, meaning Malevolent Nuzzler."
"Oh no!"
" Now, Dark Magician Girl, destroy her Ruby Dragon!" Dark Magician Girl's attack rose to 2700 and Ruby Dragon's fell to 1600. She destroyed it and Rebecca's lifepoints fell to 2600.
"You'll pay for that one, Cat!"
"I end my turn." Rebecca drew a card and gained back 200 lifepoints.
"I'll set one card facedown and end my turn."
"Now, you lose 100 lifepoints thanks to Curran." Rebecca's lifepoints fell to 2700. "Now," Cat drew a card and grinned. "Yes! I activate Graceful Charity to draw three cards, as long as I discard two. Next, I sacrifice my Ebon Magician Curran in order to summon Chaos Command Magician!"
Curran disappeared a magician dressed in black appeared, his face hidden by shadows.
"Attack her Injection Fairy Lily!"
"I'll activate Injection Fairy Lily's special ability! By sacrificing 2000 lifepoints, I can raise her attack by 3000." Cat smirked.
"Well, thanks for making it that much easier to end this duel, because you lose your lifepoints, but your fairy's power boost does not affect my magician."
"What?"
"His special ability negates the effects of monsters against him, including last minute power boosts! So, Chaos Command Magician, end this duel!" Lily looked panicked as Cat's magician unleashed a dark spell, causing Rebecca to lose the rest of her lifepoints. "I win."
She fell to her knees. "I can't believe this. How could I lose?" she whined. Honda punched the air.
"Way to duel, Cat!" Kay smirked from her seat.
"She really spanked that little brat." Grinning, she got up and disappeared from the tent without attracting any attention.
"Well, shall we attempt to catch the end of Jounouchi's duel?" Honda asked.
"I can't believe I lost!" Rebecca cried. Cat rolled her eyes.
"Sure. Rebecca, get over it and let's go! Yugi doesn't like sore losers." Rebecca glared up at Cat but stopped whining and the four set off.
"No! I can't believe I lost to a guy with pink hair!" Jounouchi cried with a groan. Cat, Rebecca, Anzu, and Honda had arrived about halfway into the duel, in time for a crazy error in the system make everything go crazy.
Zigfried had emerged victorious after Jounouchi's luck ran out.
"You are a loser, and always will be, Jounouchi. So stay on your knees like the sniveling whelp you are." With that, Zigfried left. Jounouchi sat there, looking utterly defeated.
"So, you lost the duel on a chance of luck." Honda shrugged. "No big deal."
"Guys, Jounouchi doesn't rely on luck, he relies on talent." Anzu smiled.
"Oh, so it's not that he has no luck. He lost because he has no talent."
"Is this how you guys are gonna cheer me up?" Jounouchi yelled, jumping up and chasing Honda and Anzu, who laughed at him. Yugi chuckled.
"Jounouchi dueled hard." Kristen watched them and laughed.
"He didn't do too badly, and he even had Zigfried on the ropes a few times."
"He'll get em next time!" Yugi said.
"So, should we go and see who's dueling next?" Cat asked.
"Yeah! Let's go."
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