This is my first Yu-Gi-Oh fic and I haven't watched the season with Malik and Isis and all of the Millenium Items but too bad. It's my cable's fault, not mine. ^_^ So if things aren't correct, don't criticize, just forget what you know and keep enjoying the fic. Also, the dueling is going by way of the actual game, not the anime, so if you don't play the game, go look up the rules so you're not confused.
by SakuraBubbles
Yugi looked at his deck, full of cards that were powerful and useful. One card was missing from his precious deck…the Dark Magician. Dueling had changed dramatically. Yugi closed his eyes and held his cards close to his heart, remembering the day the announcement had been made...
*~~*~~*
"Attention all Duelists!" called out the announcer during a duel between the two top duelists in the world, Yugi Mutoh and Seto Kaiba. Yugi, in his Yami form, stopped drawing the card that would win him the match against the Blue Eyes White Dragon and looked up at the speakers upon where the announcement rang out.
"This duel is now canceled. I repeat, this duel is now canceled."
"That's ridiculous!" shouted Kaiba over the boos of the crowd, throwing his fist down. Yami's mouth hung open a bit. They can't do that... thought Yami. His intense eyes trailed around the arena. This match is not only important to me, but also to Kaiba and all of those people out there...
"And I'd like to add," said the announcer with a tone that made Yami glare up at the announcer's box, "that all dueling is now forbidden. All duelists must turn in their cards at the front desk. I repeat, all duels are now outlawed and you must turn in your cards at the front desk."
The Blue Eyes White Dragon seemed to cry out in pain as the holographic image was ripped in half and then blew up, sending pixels everywhere inside of the holograph projector's range. Then both of the Duelists' Life Points went down to zero, and the platforms descended.
Yami looked to Kaiba as Kaiba nodded back. The two Duelists grabbed their card decks and shoved past the security guards. The five or so guards chased after the two Duelists, yelling, "Dueling is illegal! You must relinquish your cards!"
The Duelists didn't bother to stop to talk back. They just kept running until they came up to two more guards. Kaiba held his briefcase up as if to strike, which he did. He smacked the shorter one over the head with the silver case and then looked to Yami.
Yami looked up a little ways to see the taller guard. The five other guards following caught up.
"Hand over your cards, both of you," commanded a bald guard. Kaiba smirked and held his briefcase.
"Yugi, I hope you can fight a bit."
Yami's smirk startled the tall guard in front of him. Another guard stepped up to Yami and grabbed a lock of his hair. Yami exhaled a breath of pain, and then grabbed the man's arm firmly.
"Don't touch my hair," he ordered, putting emphasis on each word as he picked the man's arm up and flung him straight over his head, not even brushing his hair a bit. The thrown man knocked into the tall guard and they both flew back from the force and knocked into the wall. Yami looked at his hands, his eyes somewhat wide in amazement. He blinked a bit and then turned back to Kaiba who had just knocked down the last guard with a kick and then a swing of his briefcase.
"Let's go," he said with a nod. Yami started running again, running his hand through the lock of hair the man touched. The two stopped when the hall they were in came to a wall. There were now two separate hallways that went in two different directions. Kaiba looked down each.
"I'll go left, you go right," he suggested. Yami nodded and headed in the direction he was told to, as Kaiba ran the other way. Yami kept running until he heard the click of boots behind him. The door that would lead him to freedom closed slowly. In a last effort, Yami took off his Millenium Puzzle, bringing him back to his normal height and personality. He then threw the puzzle to the door, praying silently. The pyramid shaped puzzle was able to get through, while the chain held the door open enough so that after Yugi took care of his follower, he could still open the door. The duelist thanked his precious Millenium Puzzle and then faced the other way.
"The famous Duelist Yugi Mutoh...It's a pleasure," said the man. He had thick black eyebrows and a mess of black curls on the top of his head. He had overlarge side burns and his face matched well with the rest of him: ugly.
"I'm sure," said Yugi with a disgusted tone. He was a bit older now, so his voice was deeper and he was taller, but not a match for his Yami form.
"My name is Yorda ((Yoruda if you want it the Japanese way :-Þ)). That's all you need to know. Now give up your deck."
"Never! My grandpa gave me this deck two years ago and nothing will make me give it up! Not you or this absurd law that outlaws dueling!" Yugi called back forcefully. He fingered a card in his deck in his pocket, the one he would have pulled to defeat Kaiba's Blue Eyes. The Dark Magician. During the duel, he had two Equip Magic cards, the Sword of Deep-Seated and the Sword of Dark Destruction. With both of those cards, the Dark Magician's power would be 3400, enough to beat Kaiba's "unbeatable" dragon and win the duel.
Yorda seemed to glare at Yugi's pocket and then the Dark Magician flew out of Yugi's pocket. Yugi reached for it but it was too late. The card sped over to Yorda who grabbed it between his pointer and middle finger.
"Give that back!" ordered Yugi. Yorda grinned and twirled the card between his fingers. Taking a card out of his pocket, he placed a monster card down on the floor, face up. It was the Feral Imp. To Yugi's surprise, the card seemed to vibrate violently and then it ripped through the middle of the picture. A green hand with sharp claws reached out of the card, 3D contradicting the flat, one-dimensional card. Soon, the beast known as the Feral Imp was standing above the card, at a height of 2'8".
"A holographic image?" asked Yugi, still startled by the creature glaring at him. Yorda shook his head.
"No, this is an actual monster...and this," he said, pulling out another card, "is a real Trap Card. This card, called Ultimate Offering, at the small expense of 500 Life Points, allows me to Summon any amount of monster I wish. So I will Summon the Bistro Butcher in Attack mode!"
With a small inhale of pain of his Life Points going down, Yorda placed down a monster card face up. Like the Feral Imp, the Bistro Butcher's card vibrated and then the picture ripped as a kitchen knife sliced through it. The blue human-shaped creature grinned, flashing his yellow fangs, which matched the hook on his right arm. Yorda then grinned again.
"And now, since this Trap Card is continuous, I am allowed to Summon another monster. So, using the Bistro Butcher and the Feral Imp as Tributes...I Summon the Dark Magician!"
Yorda threw the card down into Attack mode. A familiar staff ripped through the picture and the two other monsters cried out and were ripped in half thanks to the Tribute. The two monster cards laid there, dormant. The Dark Magician helped himself up and out of the card, brushing himself off. He stood taller than the small 4'9" of the Bistro Butcher at the height of 5'10". Yugi stared at the card that was his. The Dark Magician looked at him, confused. He then readied his staff and glared at Yugi, focusing only on the duel he had been Summoned into.
"This is why I'm outlawing Duel Monsters. They are too dangerous..." said Yorda, looking smugly at Yugi. "Dark Magician! Dark Magic Attack!"
The powerful monster drew back his staff, gathering energy, and then he pointed it forward at Yugi, and the familiar wave of darkness hit Yugi, sending him back into the wall, next to the door he would soon use to escape. Yorda laughed as Yugi stared up at his monster card that had just attacked him. Yugi stood up and kicked the door open, something Yorda didn't expect. The sinister man then saw the Millenium Puzzle's chain on the floor and realized what Yugi had done.
"Take one step out that door and I'll attack again!" threatened Yorda, the Dark Magician readying his staff again. Yugi took one last long, sad look at his precious card before grabbing the chain of his puzzle in his hand and he stepped one foot out the door. As Yorda had promised, he had the Dark Magician execute another Dark Magic Attack at Yugi, but the duelist had anticipated it. He used the force of the attack to get a head start away from the large dueling arena. He started running as soon as the blast faded. His back was hurting, and his heart was torn because his favorite card had been used against him.
But he escaped, and he promised himself that day that he would get his Dark Magician back, even if it meant breaking the law by dueling...
*~~*~~*
Yugi hadn't seen Yorda, the Dark Magician, nor even Kaiba since he escaped three weeks ago. He had been through hell since escaping, but he had used his cards in a similar way that Yorda did and had been ok ever since. But now he was on every Wanted List in and outside of Domino, marked as a fierce outlaw. He could only trust one person, his lifelong companion.
"So Yugi," said his friend, his New Yorker accent still running strong even after two years since the defeat of Pegasus. "Where're we goin' now?"
Yugi looked at Joey, smiling a bit.
"We're going back to that arena. We'll find out where that Yorda guy is and then get back my Dark Magician. Also, we can find out where Kaiba is."
"Well, I'm against the whole, 'Let's rescue Kaiba' thing, but you know I'm here for ya buddy," replied Joey with a grin. Yugi nodded, turned to the wall he was leaning on, and ripped off a Wanted poster of himself and Joey.
Well, well, well...What do you all think? What happened to Kaiba? Who the hell is Yorda? Why am I asking you all these questions? ^_^ Too much Coke is fun. Bai-bai now! ::bows and runs away::