SailorStar9: This is Chapter 7 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 7: The Elegant Harpy Lady

"That woman has six star chips already?" Jonouchi blinked a triumphant Mai laughing at her recent victory.

"Yuugi, did your duels go well?" Mai beamed.

"Quite well." Yuugi replied.

"Yuugi, you have three star chips already?" Mai peered closer. "Then let's duel. I've decided. I'll duel here. The opponent I choose is, Jonouchi. You're not going to run away, are you, boy?"

"Thanks for choosing me" Jonouchi snorted.

"Don't get the wrong idea." Mai corrected. "As a duelist, of course I want to duel with Yuugi. But, isn't it the end if I lost my star chips? I'll defeat opponent who look weak to begin with and increase my number of star chips. Then I'll fight with Yuugi."

"Jonouchi, you'll just have to accept." Yuugi voiced.

"I knew you'll say that, Yuugi." Jonouchi remarked. "If I run away from this battle, then from now on, when I look at the sky, and the horizon that stretches to the mountains or the sea, whenever I think of how we watched that scenery together here, I'll remember that I forfeited a duel. I accept your duel." He informed Mai.

"That's more like it." Mai grinned.

"It seems that this boy only has one star chip." Mai noted, both duelists taking their places. "Then, I'll only have to bet one, too."

"Oh crap, this field…" Jonouchi exclaimed.

"Our fighting field is 40% mountain, 40% grassland and the remaining 20% is wasteland." Mai explained.

"The 'Legendary Swordsman, Masaki'." Jonouchi started first. "The grassland's field power source increases its power.

"My card is…" Mai's finger trailed over her upturned cards on the platform. "'Harpy Lady'! Its field is in the mountain, so it powers up."

"I accept the challenge!" Jonouchi gave the order to attack.

'Harpy Lady' dodged the sword strike and took to the air. With a slash, the flying monster took out the 'Legendary Swordsman, Masaki'.

"It's your turn, boy." Mai placed another card face down without looking.

"'Tiger Axe'!" Jonouchi placed his card down. "The field power powers up its attack points. Defeat 'Harpy Lady' by self-sacrifice."

"'Tiger Axe's attack power won't be increased." Mai declared, reminding her opponent about 'Harpy Lady's ability. "You can't defeat my 'Harpy Lady' with that kind of card." She reminded, 'Harpy Lady' having taken out 'Tiger Axe'. "It's my turn." She slid another card onto the field. "Every turn I play a card, 'Harpy Lady' will become more beautiful, elegant and powerful."

Left with no choice, Jonouchi placed his monster in defence mode.

"'Harpy Lady', equip 'Cyber Bondage'." Mai activated her equipment card, enabling 'Harpy Lady' to take out 'Goblin Hunter'. "Can you feel the power now?" she laughed. "Boy, you are only a scapegoat for me."

"I will use only one sentence and make Jonouchi win in front of you." Yami Yuugi emerged. "Jonouchi, guess what sentence I am going to say. 'Something that you can see but something that can't be seen.'"

"You can make this boy win with that sentence?" Mai laughed. "Interesting. Then show me."

What's the smell? Jonouchi wondered, his nose detecting a scent. I didn't notice it at all when my eyes are open. There are a few beams of fragrance.

"Come on boy, it's your turn." Mai urged.

"I get the card trick now." Jonouchi declared. "First, put different kinds of perfume on all the cards. Then, by smelling them, you can tell which card has which picture. Cards can be seen, but the fragrance cannot be seen."

"Impossible!" Mai was shocked. "How could my aroma trick be figured out by an amateur brat?"

"Get ready, my card is 'Baby Dragon'." Jonouchi summoned his monster.

"My card is 'Kaleidoscope'." Mai activated her magic card. "I will use this card to create copies of 'Harpy Lady'. 'Harpy Lady' One, Two, Three. 'Harpy Lady's Elegant Cosmic Combo. They become more beautiful and elegant whenever I play a card. It's your turn. But, you've probably run out of ideas."

"Don't give up, Jonouchi." Ami voiced. "Kujaku Mai's duelling combo is to use a lot of magic cards to enhance one 'Harpy Lady'. But this strategy has a fatal flaw."

"I see," Jonouchi realized. "Using a lot of magic cards means that her deck does not have any monster cards other than 'Harpy Lady'. She'll have no other strategies left if 'Harpy Lady' is defeated."

"So, one more time, 'Something that you can see but something that can't be seen.'" Yami Yuugi repeated his quote.

"At that time…" Jonouchi remembered Yuugi giving him the 'Time Magician' card. "So, it has to be the 'Time Magician'. Please!" he begged. "All right!" he whooped. "'Time Magician'!" he slammed the card down. "You don't know?" he noticed Mai's bewildered look. "We're going to go through one thousand years and let 'Baby Dragon' become a 'Thousand Dragon'."

"'Time Magic'!" 'Time Magician' activated his powers.

"Transform into 'Thousand Dragon'! Jonouchi declared.

"What's that dragon worth?" Mai snorted. "My 'Harpy's attack power is stronger. Kill it off! My three 'Harpy Ladies'! What?" she exclaimed, her 'Harpy Ladies' having aged. "My 'Harpy'… have become this…"

"I was surprised too." Jonouchi admitted. "Go, 'Thousand Dragon'! 'Thousand Nose Breath'!"

Mai gaped as 'Thousand Dragon' barbequed her three 'Harpy Ladies'. "I never thought I would lose to a brat." She muttered, her 'Life Points' dropping all the way to zero.

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