Chapter 2: The first battle, Mokuba's deadly strike!

In our last chapter, Kaiba was staring at our unlikely heroes in disbelief. What shall happen in this latest chapter of Spirit Journey..

"Ouch, get of me ya bums!" said Joey who happened to be on the bottom of the pile. "I would if these two would get off me" said Tamir who was referring to Keisha and Mike.

Tone however had a large grin on his face, fully realizing what had happened. He stared straight at Seto Kaiba and said "Let's deal!" referring to Cloud's parody in the YamiBallZ fanfiction. Of course Seto Kaiba had never heard of this fanfiction, nor of any fanfiction like it because for him the world was very real. Antonio's taunt burned Kaiba straight to his core and brought him out of his daze and back to the stone-faced Kaiba will all know.

"How dare you! How dare you come into my office and challenge me, Seto Kaiba like this! I don't know how you snuck in here but I'll make you regret it!" said Kaiba, almost shouting at Tone. Meanwhile the group got up and Tamir spoke.

"We're sorry to barge in, but we just ended up here by some sort of magic, we didn't intend to drop in uninvited, however you should realize who we are, we're duelists with Millenium items!" said Tamir in a confident tone.

"I am Joey, holder of the Green Millenium Hat!" shouted Joe pointing his thumbs to his green hat. "I am Tamir with the Millenium Cell Phone!" said Tamir pulling out a cell phone.

"And I am Tone with the Millenium Finger!!" said Tone as he showed Kaiba his millen.er middle finger.

Keisha and Mike could only watch as the three provoked Kaiba past the breaking point.

"We should all stop fighting!" said Keisha trying to bring peace to the situation.

"Yes, we should. Kaiba we really meant no harm.you see." said Mike before he was cut off by an enraged (but still stone-faced) Kaiba. "If you think you can make fun of the #1 ranked duelist in the world you've got another thing coming. I will duel with you.Tone" said Kaiba as he snapped his fingers and summoned a dueling arena in the room behind our heroes. "After you" said Kaiba beckoning Tone to enter the dueling arena. The two occupied opposite sides of the dueling arena and each started with a mere 4000 LP.

"Darn, lower life points is to his advantage! I'll still win!" thought Tone as he drew his first card. "Ahh, none other than my Solemn Judgement, on my first turn, no less" thought Tone before he placed Solemn Judgement on the field face down along with La Jinn in attack mode. "Your move" said Tone ending his turn.

"Interesting, he's a good duelist if he has La Jinn.but he still has much to learn." Thought Kaiba before making a play of his own. "I play Blood Vors..in attack mode! Attack La Jinn!" said Kaiba playing his Blood Vors, its 1900 attack points crushing the enemy La Jinn and putting Kaiba in the lead by 100 Life Points. Kaiba ended his turn by placing 2 cards in the magic/trap zone and ending his turn with a smug expression.

"I'll get him back..I'll play the Horn of Heaven and then my Black Forest Witch" thought Tone as he played the cards and ended his turn.

"I'm sorry." began Kaiba. "I see you have some dueling skill..but I must end this now." said Kaiba as he flipped his trap card Ultimate Offering which was previously face down on the field. Seeing how screwed he was since Kaiba would likely summon a goodly amount of monsters and annihilate his witch and then his life points, Tone activated his Solemn Judgement, paying half of his life, taking him down to 1950, negating Kaiba's trap. Kaiba merely laughed." I thank you for doing the damage before me.your move" said Kaiba as he placed a card in defense mode an ended his turn.

Tone drew a card and decided to use it immeadiately. "Confiscation! Let me see your hand Kaiba-boy!" said Tone annoying Kaiba greatly. "Kaiba.boy.that's Pegasus' line.how does he know Pegasus.no matter.he will pay..and the fool just made a fatal error" thought Kaiba as Tone removed his Blue Eyes White Dragon from his hand. Tone then played the Mysterious Puppeteer in defense mode, grinned and ended his turn.

Kaiba drew and grinned. "I think I shall get rid of you now. I play the blue eyes white dragon!" said Kaiba playing the blue eyes he just drew by tributing both of his monsters.

Tone just smirked and said "I don't think so!" activating his trap, Horn of Heaven negating Kaiba's summon and destroying it by sacrificing his witch. "

"That may have given you the game with any normal duelist..but not with me." said Kaiba flipping over Michizure, destroying Tone's Mysterious Puppeteer. "Now I shall resurrect my Blue-Eyes White Dragon.Blue Eyes.White Lightning Attack!" shouted Kaiba with anger and confidence as he flipped over his face-down Monster Reborn and the Blue Eyes appeared and wiped out Tone's Life Points.

Tone was just in shock. Kaiba just smirked and said "Get out.all of you!" said Kaiba. Mike intervened and with Kaiba's attention explained himself. " Seto Kaiba, I am looking for three God Cards, Ra, Obelisk, and Osiris. I was wondering if you knew where I might find them."

Seto stared straight into Mike's eyes attempting to look into his soul. "How do you know about the God Cards?? Only a select few know of their existence.Pegasus is one of them and your friend seems to know him.before I had dismissed the possibility, but now it appears your group knows some people.I want to know how you know all this.

Mike pondered. He had to think of a way to tell Kaiba how he knew without saying that he was sent by Kami, Kaiba would likely not believe him. "It is simple, we have been sent on a mission to unite the God Cards for the purposes of good. Though it may be heard to fathom, I need to collect all three cards to complete my mission and master my magic powers." said Mike.realizing he said "magic" which may lead Kaiba to question his story.

"Your eyes tell me you are speaking the truth.I am no stranger to magic.Pegasus imprisoned by soul in a card so nothing is impossible. I have one of the god cards, Obeslisk. Unfortunately I won't give it to you. Get the other two God Cards, and if you can beat me in a duel I shall give you the 3rd..understoof?" said Kaiba with a tone of seriousness. Mike simply smiled and said "Sure Thing" and bowed lightly to Kaiba. Mike turned to leave before Kaiba interrupted him.

"One more thing.I'm having a tournament in one weeks time.all the top duelists will be there, especially the ones with God Cards.though it is mere rumor, Yugi Motou is said to have such a card, I'm sure you've heard of him. The whole group nodded in assent, with Tamir breaking out his Dark Magician. After a moment of embrassment on Kaiba's face he sent the group off, with Duel Disk systems so they could all participate in the tournament. They exited Kaiba's building and decided on where they should go.

"Man.where will we go for food, and shelter" sighed Joey as his stomach rumbled. "I know!" said Keisha. "We'll all get some entry-level jobs. But for now I can treat everyone. Let's check out this beef bowl place guys!" said Keisha. "Wow.we're in Tokyo, but everyone here speaks English.there goes my semester of Japanese" said Joey commenting on the strange reality of the world. "At least they have kanji for some of the signs and on the temples"

The group ate many beef bowls heartily and commenting on how cool it was to be living a dream. But how long can such a dream last. How will they get a job? What fearsome foes will they face in the job, and the dueling arena..find out in the next chapter.of Spirit Journey.

-Fin

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