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I got food to eat so I feel better, honestly these Ojama cards arn't that good, I wonder if I can replace them soon. While waiting around I almost fell asleep until I heard the announcer speaking over an intercom.
"After a short break we are back to the final duel! A four way duel between the final four duelists, so if everyone could come out!"
I start walking to the duel field but I'm having a bit of trouble keeping my balance, but I don't give up, never again. After I get to the duel field I can see the difference from the other arenas, it's in a square, the duel platforms are all on each side.
Once we ascend to the top of our platforms I hear the guy on the mic again although I can hardly listen, I am not from this world so the fact that I even have duel energy is surprising, and I think I used almost all of it with that stunt I pulled, standing by itself is a challenge.
"I'll go first!" A man I think I heard his name was Dennis or something said. What was the other guys name? Jade I think.
Third Person Pov
Dennis-2000 Zenen-2000 Richard-2000 Jade-2000
"I draw!" Dennis says as he draws a card, after a second of looking at his hand he puts the card he drew down on the field. "I summon Buster Blader!" That got Zenen's attention confusing him for a second. Buster Blader 2600/2300
"Then I set three cards face-down. That ends my turn." Three cards appear on the field face-down behind the warrior cladded completely in blue armor with gold trimmings.
Hand 2
"I draw." Zenen says drawing a card slowly. "I summon Ojama Red." 0/1000 The red Ojama appears as Zenen sets the card down. "His effect lets me summon more Ojamas from my hand, so I play Ojama Yellow and Black." As he said that his monsters apeared on the field. Ojama Yellow/Black 0/1000. Then I set two cards face-down which ends my turn."
Hand 1
"I draw." Richard says picking up a card. "I summon the summoned skull, then I equip him with the axe of despair. 3500/1200. His monster appears and so does the axe, the skull creature grabs the axe and gains attack points. "I will set a card face-down and end my turn."
Hand 4
"Draw." Jade says as his turn starts. "I play heavy storm which destroys all spells and traps on the field!" All the players look at him in somewhat shock. Zenen looks down at one of his face-down cards and thinks for a second before sending them both to the graveyard because of Jades spell.
"I will then summon Airkight Parshath!" 1900/1400 "Now, my Airknight attack his Ojama Yellow!" Airknight Parshath attacks Ojama Yellow sending what seems like a shockwave at Zenen. As the wave hits him, his life points drop. Zenen-100 "Then because of my monsters effect I can draw a card, I set a card face-down which ends my turn."
Hand 4
Zenen while barely able to stand at the start of the duel felt like he was going to pass out now. Having almost all his life points taken from him in one hit. Using the side of the dueling platform to keep himself standing he looks at the last card in his hand trying to think of what he can do.
"I draw!" Dennis says. "I summon Zoa!" 2600/1900 "Buster blader attack his Parshath!" As Dennis declares his attack Jade simply smiles and flips over his face-down card.
"I play mirror force, which will destroy both your monsters, and because you take half of both their attack points combined this means you lose." Jade says. Dennis looks on in shock as both his monsters are destroyed and his life points drop to zero.
Dennis-0
"My turn." Zenen says in a monotone voice not finding the strength to do anything else. He draws a card and looks at it. "I put my Ojama Black in defence mode and set a card face-down, this ends my turn." Zenen says not finding a way to conserve his life.
Hand 1
"I draw!" Richard says. "Summoned skull attack his Parshath!" Richards summoned skull fires a lightning strike at Jades Airknight destroying it.
Jade-1400
"I set one card face-down and end my turn." Richard sets a card, Jade thinks for a second and draws from his deck.
Hand 4
"I draw." Jade says. But then he starts to smile "I summon Master Hyperion!" 2700/2100 "With his effect I banish The Agent Earth from my hand in order to destroy your summoned skull!" Hyperion absorbs what looks to be an energy orb that looks like the earth and then fires a beam on blue and green at summoned skull destroying it. Richard-750
"Now Hyperion attack him Directly!" Jades monster gathers a flaming ball of energy and throws it at Richard finishing him off. Richard-0
"Well then I guess I will end my turn there, I have pretty much won already." Jade says. Looking at Zenen.
"I draw." says Zenen thinking of what to do. As he looks at his card he has an epiphany he realizes that fate will never be on his side, he views the game as a means to an end, mostly wishing to rush the game rather than have fun, and that isn't something he can just change, he isn't from this universe so things like the heart of the cards will never be on his side. "I end my turn."
Hand 2
"Draw!" Jade says. "I play monster reborn to bring back Parshath! Now my Airknight attack his Ojama Black and end this duel!" Zenen wonders for a second if there was anything he could have done, but then he remembers not playing his face-downs before heavy storm went off, he may of had a better chance, but too late now.
Airknight Parshath attacks and destroys Ojama Black getting rid of the rest of Zenens life points. Zenen-0
Zenen feels the rest of the energy he had leave him making him fall on the floor blacking out.
Zenen Pov
I woke up feeling pretty good, in a different room. Where am I? Looking around I can see I am in the waiting room to the tournament. Oh right I lost. Damn it. I am mad, no, more than mad. The anger I feel getting up can't be described. I hate losing, I despise it. This doesn't go for just this game, I just hate losing. It's why I am not a competitive person, if I don't compete I can't lose.
I look around and see my bag picking it up I find something in it, it's a few cards I guess I got from getting second place. Looking at them I can tell they are terrible, like who plays Watapon. I pick the bag up and rip all the cards I won from this place finding them all useless. Walking away from this room I know where to go.
On my way to the exit I see Richard looking through his cards, he told me what I needed to know so I have no more use for him. "Oh hey Zenen! That Jade guy was tough huh?" He asks and gets confused when I walk past him. "Hey where are you going?" Ignoring him I continue on thinking of ways to get better cards.
Once I get out I go on my phone and order a plane ticket, somehow the soonest I can get to where I need is a few hours. I order the ticket and start walking to the airport. On my way there I start thinking about how this world doesn't look that different from my own, the technology is better, and duel monsters is more popular. That's all I can see so far.
My energy seems to be restored so that helps. After more time I see a game shop that makes me think, I need new cards so I should just get some more, as long as they are useful. Walking in there I see a few people I recognize. Seto Kaiba and the other as Yugi Muto, I overhear a bit of their conversation.
"Listen old man, give me your Blue-eyes White dragon and I will trade you all of these." Seto says showing the old man a briefcase full of cards. I ignore what is being said because I don't think it's important to my life, although the Blue-Eyes in this series is supposed to be the strongest right?
Walking to the front desk Seto ends up leaving. I continue on. "Hey, you sell duel monster cards right?" The old man sighs a bit seemingly to get his head together after talking with Seto.
"Yes I do, what were you looking for?" He asks me with a smile. I smile too trying to act genuine.
"Mostly trap cards." I say figuring I should stick with the nice act. I also have an idea for the deck I want, I played it alot back when I played this game but I don't know if I will be able to get their cards, oh well if I can't I will try to use magic to get them, if that doesn't work then I will make it.
"Ah yes I have some, you can look over them." He says as he brings out a wooden box. He opens it and I look in, I don't recognize a lot of them guessing they are anime exclusive, but that's when a trap catches my eye, torrential tribute has an anime effect, it only destroys the opponents monsters.
I pick the card up and see more copies of it under it. "I will take three of these." I say showing the cards to him.
"Oh do you play a water deck?" Yugi says from my left, right this is an anime, your trap cards art actually matters to people.
"You can say that." I say smiling at him. Yugi's grandfather goes over to a register and types something in.
"That will be $25" (I am using American because in the english dub which is the version I am using it is suggested that this version takes place in America)
"Woah $25 for just three cards?!" The blond shouts from beside Yugi. "Isn't that a bit much?"
"Not really." Yugi says "If the card is good that could also increase the price." He explains. I don't bother paying attention much because money at this moment holds no value, I have enough. After I handed Mr. Muto the money I put the cards in my deck box thinking about getting another one.
"Do you have any leather attachable deck boxes?" I ask him. Joey looks at me confused but Mr. Muto picked up a few ranging in color.
"What are leather deck boxes Yug?" Joey asks. Yugi answers him as I choose the color of dark purple and pay for it.
"They hold your cards, most people put their deck in it." Yugi explains. "You don't want to ruin your cards or lose them." Yugi says.
"But doesn't he already have one?" Joey asks pointing to the deck box attached to my belt.
After attaching the new deck box and putting the trap cards in them, I answer him. "People can have more than one deck." After getting everything I needed I start to leave.
"Hey hold on a sec!" Joey yells. I turn around and look at him with a raised eyebrow. "If you play duel monsters do you wanna duel with us some time?" He asks gesturing to his friends.
I shake my head for a second. "Sorry, I may be able to some other time but I am currently going to catch a plane, I have things to do in another country, I may be back in a week to a month though." I respond to him. He takes out his phone and walks to me.
"Oh then maybe I could get your number so when you are in town we can hang out." I look up at him, because he is taller than me, he looks around 5'10. If I had to guess I would say I am around 5'4 to 5'5.
"Sure." I respond, I take out my phone and get my number pulled up, huh odd. '55428242' Don't think that's a legal phone number, it's not even ten digits, I know some places have only eight but, oh well I am not thinking of this right now. I hand my phone over to him and he types in his number an gets mine.
"All right, I hope we meet again!" He says. I nod and start walking off after I get my phone back. I got some good traps for this era. After pulling up a map I continue walking to the airport once I get there I wait for take off. It's not that easy but explaining everything would be a bore so long story short three hours later I am sitting in the plane. But now I have pretty much an entire day in here, so what should I do? Sleep.
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After getting off the plane and leaving the airport I am met with a city where I can just sense the darkness from. I have a return ticket so I should make this quick. Good thing I already know english, but anyway, hello England. I start walking to the closest holy places and where better than churches. After walking around I notice the lack of duel monsters, don't get me wrong, they are here but there are less than back in domino.
Guess Japan, or America, they used American cash, so I will guess it's America, jeez if I was in the Japanese version this would not be as confusing. Anyway I start walking to a currency exchange to get some money that will work here. After doing that I try to find a church, I will trust my senses for magic once I get there. For all I know I will not find anything here.
Once I find one I try to sense anything supernatural, it feels slow though, I can't tell if it's magic or something else. I try tapping into that duel energy I was able to pull apon in my duel to top deck a card. If duel monsters have souls then my ability to force the soul of a monster to the top of my deck should be more than enough to let me enhance my senses.
As I have the feeling of slight exhaustion it also feels like my body is being purified. Once that happens, I feel it. It isn't near the church though. It's far away, I try to pinpoint the location because there is a constant drain on my energy the longer I do this and I estimate I could maybe do this for five minutes before either passing out or going into a coma.
I mentaly stop the release of duel energy which distorts my vision for a second before returning to normal, I am no longer leaking it but I don't have the extra sense. I start going to the place I felt it. But a chill ends up going up my spine, feeling as if something bad is going to happen.
Once I get to the place I felt the energy from I wasn't surprised to find a graveyard. I start going into the place after a while of searching I find a wooden shack. I use my duel energy to try and see if there is magic in there. I am right however it's odd. I try to open the door but it's locked, so I kick the door open, it's not that hard, it's an old wooden door.
The inside looks dirty, not dusty though. The weird part is the fact that it feels cold in here but nothing else is out of place, I get an idea so I try to sense the magic again but once I do I can feel energy all around me, as if it's looking at me. I feel something off, so I look back at the door but it closes. Before I could try to open it the floor starts to creak. I attempt grabbing onto something but before I could reach it the floor breaks.
I end up falling in a pure black pit, in my attempt to escape I end up sending duel energy throughout my entire body. This allows be to feel the things around me, if I want to see them I may need literal magic.
I have a crazy idea but I grab my torrential tribute trap card and try to pour as much energy as I can into it, it takes almost all of it but soon a tidal wave comes shooting out of it, I can feel it, the water maybe because it's infused with my energy I hear something crack for a second I can see the things around me, they look like the souls of the damned and some duel monster spirits.
I end up falling into a room the water helping me down safely, I try to call back the water and it dissolves, off my clothes too, I end up completely dry. Looking up I can see just how far I fell, from the looks of it. I fell over six hundred meters, or a bit under two thousand feet. But still that could have killed me.
But now that my adrenalyn is dying down I can feel just how tired I am. I try standing up and I am able to but just barely. Looking around I seem to be in stone castle looking place covered and I mean covered in plants. And spiderwebs oddly enough.
Deciding I have no way to get out and sitting still is pretty much as good as dying I start walking in feeling like I am going into the home full of predators willingly.
