Chapter 5: The First Duel Begins

By: Shadow Dragon

When Pegasus finished with his opening speech to the finalists, he turned around and sat down where he had an excellent view of the duelling arena. As Pegasus made himself comfortable the announcer for the duels made his way to the railing and shouted to everyone in the room to begin the first duel.

"The first duel of the finals shall commence shortly, so would Bandit Keith, on the red, and Joey Wheeler, on the blue, take their places on the duelling arena."

With a large grin on his face, Joey looked up at the arena and silently began to make his way to the blue side of the arena without looking back, and Bandit Keith made his way to the red side with a slight smirk on his face. As the two duellist stood on opposite sides of the arena, they placed their decks on the deck space that was provided, and stared into each other eyes.

"You can do it, Joey!" cheered Bakura and Tea.

"You go get that loser, Joey!" yelled Tristan.

"Keep your cool, and believe in the heart of the cards, and you shall conquer all your enemies." whispered Yami Yugi to himself.

Even though his friends cheered for his victory, Joey ignored everyone except his mind and his opponent because he had great determination to win the duel without any screw ups. Each of the duellists drew five cards, and Joey had a pleasing hand, Monster Reborn, Red-Eyes, Flaming Swordsman, De- Spell, and D. Human. And Bandit Keith did the same except he had a much different hand, Last Will, Destroyer Golem, Pale Beast, Doma the Angel of Silence, and the Dark Assailant.

"Duel!" yelled out each of duellists.

"I shall D. Human, which has an attack power of 1300 and a defence power of 1100, in attack mode, and I shall play a magic card face down! Your move!"

"I hope that you are planning to lose if you are going to continue to put weak monsters on the field."

"A monster isn't weak unless you don't play is correctly. That's something the heart of the cards taught me! Now make your move!"

"Very well, kid. I play my Doma the Angel of Silence in attack mode, and it has an attack power of 1600 and a defence of 1400. I shall also play a magic card face down, now make your move!"

Joey drew his Time Wizard, and looked up at Bandit Keith.

"I shall play another magic card face down, and I'll play my Time Wizard face down! Make your move!"

Bandit Keith laughed at Joey's move and drew the card Bottom Dweller, with an attack of 1650 and a defence of 1700, and quickly placed it on the field.

"Bottom Dweller attack his D. Human!"

The snake monster obeyed Bandit's attack and destroyed Joey's D. Human.

"And that brings your life points down to 1650! Now make your move!"

Joey growled at Bandit Keith and drew his next card, Baby Dragon.

"I play Baby Dragon and I summon my Time Wizard that I played in my previous turn! Time Wizard speed up time!"

With Joey's words, the Time Wizard spun it's arrow until it finally landed on the red symbol, which caused Joey to cheer at his Time Wizard, because short after the spin his Baby Dragon turned into Thousand Dragon.

"Alright, my Thousand Dragon has an attack power of 2400 and a defence of 2000, which over powers your monsters! Thousand Dragon attack his Doma the Angel of Silence!"

The Thousand Dragon obeyed and attacked Bandit's Doma the Angel of Silence with a beam of fire destroying it.

"Hah! You have 1200 life points left! Make your move!"

Growling at Joey's move, Bandit drew his next card, Labyrinth Tank.

"I play my Labyrinth Tank that has an attack and defence power of 2400! So it rivals your Thousand Dragon! Your move!"

Joey drew the card, Sword of Deep-Seated and smirked.

"Not so fast, Bandit! I play the magic card the Sword of Deep Seated, which increases my Thousand Dragon's attack and defence by 500 points! Thousand Dragon attack!"

Again, the Thousand Dragon used it's mighty strength and attacked Bandit's monster destroying it.

"Now, your life points are down to 700, and to finish my turn, I shall play my Red-Eyes Black Dragon!"

"WHAT!?" yelled Bandit in shock.

"Now, Red-Eyes finish this duel now!"

Joey's Red-Eyes released a powerful growl before using it's fire power to finish off Bandit's life points.

"Alright! Your finished!"

Joey smiled at himself with pride, and picked up his deck and placed it in his pocket before jumping down from the arena. On the other hand, Bandit Keith was in disbelief and pounded on the card spaces repeatedly with great anger.

"I can't believe this! How did I lose to a newbie?"

"The winner of the first duel is Joey Wheeler! Now, would everyone clear themselves from the arena for the next duel will commence shortly!" yelled the announcer.

Bandit Keith kicked the arena with all his might, before slowly walking down from the arena and walked out of the room and disappeared from view. With his friends, Joey smiled at his friends and received smiles from everyone in return.

"Great job, Joey!" praised Tea.

"Joey keeps up the good work and you'll have the right to challenge Pegasus."

"Thanks, Yug."

The two friends exchanged smiles until Joey turned away and continued to celebrate his first win in the finals.