Hello there, it me the author of the story. I'd like to set a few
questions straight about the story before I give you Chapter 3. :) All
right, the first question I've had is exactly where in the series this
happens. It's an OVA. The next question is what Korin's real name is.
His name is Seymour Butts. Another question, if Korin knew all about
Yugi's deck, then why didn't he mention the two ritual cards that Yugi had,
and the answer to that is Yugi took them out because of the sparse chance
of pulling them at the right moment. And he ate them or something. :)
Finally, it's not a question but just a general warning that I usually don't use main characters from a series that I make a fanfic of, so this is the first time I've ever written a fanfic with the original characters. So if it seems odd of characters to do certain things or whatnot then the creators of the series were doing it wrong, and I corrected them. Or I'm too lazy to make the character act properly, whatever comes first. ;)
Oh, and this chapter was a big pain to write, everything came out weird. :/ Chances are I'll rewrite most of it later, but for now I'll just do Chapter 4. :) Also, it's been a while since I updated the story, but considering how few people actually read it, who cares. :)
Chapter 3: Plot? That's the thing with legs, right?
Watching two large screens in a darkened room somewhere in the bowls of Kaiba Land, was the owner himself, Seto Kaiba. He watched two separate dueling platform at the same time, not wanting to miss something in either. To his right, he watched person after person be beaten by a mysterious red haired girl. On the other screen, he watched the duel between Yugi and another mysterious person only known by the name Korin. His brows were lowered over his eyes as he watched two separate people duel with such unusual cards. He looks over to the door, the only other object in the blank room other then the computer he sat at, and watches it close. He glances around a bit, and then watches as his brother appeared in the light of the screens.
"I had background checks run on both of them. Whoever they are, they don't exist. At least no document of them ever existing.", Mokuba finished talking and Seto just looked to the screen where Yugi and Korin were dueling, "Hmpf. Two exceptional duelists with rare and single print cards appear at my doorstep and start to duel as if nothing was wrong, with one dueling the 'King of games' like he was dueling a novice. Sounds a little too unusual to me. Well then, if I can't get what I want from intel, I guess I'll have to get the information I want the old fashioned way...", Kaiba said as he stood up from his chair walked out of the room, his brother in tow.
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"So you finally pulled the swords of revealing light?", Korin said with a smile. Yugi would have been taken aback by Korin's prediction if it weren't for the fact that he's 'watched' the show enough to know what cards Yugi would pull, "Why yes, that is the card I have.", he places the card onto the field, and in an instant the swords started to block out the visage of the Crab Turtle, as well as bathe the room in light. Korin chuckled, "Looks like I'm in for it. That is, unless I happen to have a card that could destroy the swords.", Yugi smiled back, "Oh. And do you have this card on the field?", Yugi motions to the still unused card that Korin had placed at the beginning of the duel. Korin shakes his head, "No, unfortunately that card can't do anything to your swords.", he shrugs, "Gonna do anything else?", Yugi looks over the field, and places a monster in face down defense mode and motions to Korin.
Korin shook his head and started to hope he pulled that certain card before Yugi could get enough power to take down the Turtle. He drew his next card and glanced it over. The tension ran high as Korin sat there looking at the card. Finally he looked up and shrugged, "I got nothing.", and placed the card in his hand. Yugi nodded and got his card. He smiled and said, "Well, time seems to be on my side.", and he placed the card down on the field in the magic zone. Korin glanced to Yugi and then back to the card, thinking to himself, "I don't remember him ever doing that before. But then again, he's probably trying to do something out of the norm to set me off track.", he glances down at his hand, and spots the card he drew in the previous turn, "Better keep that out of sight... can't believe I forgot to remove that before the duel. At least I'll be able to keep it from reaching the field." Korin sighed and got himself another card, "Hm, nothing again.", he placed the card into his hand.
As everyone down below started to hope for the best, Mokuba walked in from the door, "What I miss?", he asked as he walked in and looked up to the dueling platform, "Looks like Yugi has another win in the bag.", he then notes Tea looking at Korin intently, and then looks over to Joey and Tristan who are now looking intently at Yugi. He clears his throat and asks again, "Ahem... hello?", this time Joey turned his head to Mokuba, "Eh? Oh, Mokuba! Have you seen how great a duel this is?", Mokuba shakes his head, "No, I've been looking after the commotion in the other fields.", he looks to Korin, "So, what's with the Crab thing?", Joey smiles and says, "Oh, that's the Crab Turtle. It's Korin's most powerful monster. Yugi managed to hold it off with swords of revealing light, but now he's waiting for a card that can beat it.", he looks back at the duel. Mokuba nods, even though Joey had already looked away. Technically he had seen most of the duel already, but the swords thing must have happened while he and Seto were coming here. He looked behind him, but as usual, his brother wouldn't enter in the middle of the duel. He's probably watching from the box over the field. He looks back to the duel, interested in what Yugi would pull to stop the monster incased in the swords.
Yugi nodded at Korin, and then down to his deck, "I've managed to keep Korin at bay for the moment, but with only the cards in my hand, I can't defeat the Crab Turtle. Heart of the cards, I have faith in you...", he thinks to himself as he draws his next card. He looks to the card and smiles, "Not quite what I wanted, but it will have to do.", he says out loud while looking at Korin. He then thinks to himself, "With the card I already have down, I can stall for a little bit more time.", he looks to Korin again, "I do nothing on this turn.", Korin nodded and drew his card. His face tried to keep back a smile as he looked the card over, "Well, a little late, but still useful to me. I activate this card on your swords of revealing light. Despell!", the card activated instantly swirling around the Crab Turtle while the swords around it started to be whisked away in the force. Soon, not one sword was left and the Crab Turtle let out a roar. Yugi gasped, "Oh no...", Korin smiles, "Crab Turtle, destroy Yugi's face down card!", the Turtle let out another roar as it bounded toward the face down card, stomping over top of the poor thing. The Crab backed off and watched the remnants of the giant soldier of stone dissipated. Yugi looked shocked, he was hoping the defense card would last another turn so he could get the time he needed. But now he was at his last turn, and while he had the cards he needed to get more time, he didn't want to use it so soon, "His whole deck is based on luck and he's already proven how well his luck is. He might just get it right off the bat. But I have to play it...", he thinks to himself and draws a card, "Excellent.", he looks to Korin, "Alright. I didn't want to use this specific combo on you considering what it needs to be successful, but now I have no choice. I place the Dark Magician on the field, and activate the magical hats that I have on the field!", the hum of the holographic machine started up again as The Dark Magician appeared onto the field, only to be eaten up by the magical hats Yugi had put him in.
Joey looks to Tristan, "I don't know how this will work. Usually when Yugi uses this combo, he knows it'll take a few turns for his Magician to be found, and by that time it's usually too late. But in this case, Korin's luck might just find the Dark Magician.", Tristan nods, "It's against the odds for Yugi, but he would know this already, so he either has something up his sleeve, or he doesn't have any other moves to make...", Tea looks over to Joey and Tristan, and then back to Korin, who is still sporting the smile he had since he managed to get out the Crab Turtle. She looks down at the floor, thinking to herself, "Oh, I'm so confused... instead of helping my best friend, I'm helping a stranger that I can't help but feel sorry for.", she looks back at Korin, "But... he needs someone to cheer for him. Yugi must know that, which is why he hasn't said anything. Or did I hurt him by cheering for Korin...", she looks back at Yugi, who is also sporting a smile all his own, "Good thing this duel isn't for anything. It's bad enough with me and my confused feelings, who knows what I would do if this were important.", she looks back to Korin, "Good luck... Korin."
Korin nodded to himself and said, "Well Yugi, I didn't expect you to already have the hats on the field, but I guess you didn't want to use them. Anywho, I guess you'll want me to pick a hat, eh?", he smiles and draws a card. He then wordlessly places it in an unoccupied magic area, "Alright... Crab Turtle, attack the second hat!", yet again, the Turtle stomped over to the other side of the playing field and smashed down upon the hat it was ordered to. Everyone sat and watched as the dust cleared, revealing nothing under the hat. Korin smiled and shrugged, "Oh well, I guess I missed."
Yugi nodded and let out a small sigh, "That was close...", he drew the next card and then smiled, "Thats more like it. I'll place this under one of the remaining hats and end my turn.", Korin nodded, knowing what card that usually was. He drew his next card, and then looked up to Yugi's side of the field, "Alright, Crab Turtle, attack the middle hat!", The turtle jumped up from where it was and in an instant smashed the hat. But, as the dust cleared, something began to sparkle in the dust, "You activated my trap, the spell binding circle!", the circle suddenly flew out of the dust and was about to entrap the Turtle when the circle suddenly dissipated. "What?! That can't be!", Yugi exclaimed as he looked over to Korin, who was now holding the trap card he had placed down the turn before, "Oh yeah. Say hello to Solemn Judgment. It costs half my life points to use, but it has the power to dissipate any magic, trap, or even summon that you decide to do.", Yugi is taken quite aback from this and then he closes his eyes, tilts his head to the side and then smiles, "I should have known you would have something ready for that. The round goes to you Korin."
|Yugi||Korin| |1350||850|
Tristan looks to Joey, "I don't get it. He used half his life points to stop Yugi, but isn't that price a little big?", Joey nods, "Yeah, but at the same time, he managed to keep Yugi From killing his monster. If the circle had worked, the Crab Turtle would have been easy for the Dark Magician to destroy, and Korin would have taken a large hit in his life points. This way, he looses life points, but he keeps his monster.", he looks back to the duel, "Quite the move, for someone that claims to have never played with these rules before...", Mokuba looks over to Joey, "What's that?", Joey gacks and then shakes his hands saying, "N...nothing. Just mumbling to myself... that's all...", he chuckles and scratches the back of his head. Mokuba tilts his head and then says, "Uh... whatever...", and looks back to the field, thinking, "Never played with these rules? Who is this guy?"
Yugi lets out a sigh, "Well, I had hoped I would be able to destroy his Turtle, but instead I now have to do something to protect the Dark Magician.", he looks to his deck, "Only one card can do that...", he puts his hand to the deck, closes his eyes, and draws the next card. His eyes open and looks to the card. A smile covers his face as he says, "Well well.", Korin, for the first time, looked puzzled, "Eh?", Yugi smiles as he places his monsters reborn onto the field, "I monsters reborn Gaia the fierce knight!", Korin gacks as he watches Gaia appear in the first slot where he destroyed the hats, "You actually got it all?", Yugi nods as he places Curse of Dragon down and then activates the polymerization card. In a flash, the Dragon Champion was now on the field (2600/2100)! With his newly fused monster on the field, Yugi only had to give one command to Gaia, and the Turtle would be no more, "Dragon Champion... Destroy the Crab Turtle!", The Dragon rider lifted his weapon to the sky and let out a battle cry, the dragon under him letting out a roar as it flew up into the air, and in one quick blow destroyed the Crab Turtle.
|Yugi||Korin| |1350||800|
Korin blocked his face as the large explosion blew across his side of the field. As the dust cleared, he looked over to see his monster spot vacant and the powerful Dragon Champion flying over the field triumphantly, "Well, damn. That sucks.", he looks to Yugi, "Nice. I didn't expect you to make a move like that so early. But I guess Now you have quite the advantage. With the Dark Magician still hidden under the last of the hats and your Dragon Champion hovering over the field, I don't think I'll have anything to stop you.", he looks down and draws his next card, and with an sly smile, "But then again...", he drops a magic card to the field, "I activate the Commencement Dance Ritual!", he discards a Hungry Hamburger from his hand and places the Performance of Sword onto the field. Yugi watches the Ritual, and then looks to the stats on the card, "Only 1950 by 1850... You do have something else as well, right?", Korin nods, "Normally, this little lady would be easy to take down. But with the right accessories, she becomes quite the killer...", he places a magic card under the Performance of Sword, "This is the Malevolent Nuzzler. Not only does it make my Performance of Sword better looking, it increases her attack power by 700.", Yugi's eye's widen, "Such power!", Korin nods, "Yeah, it is rather good. Heh. Anyways, Performance of Sword, show the Dragon Champion what you can do!", the Performance of Sword nodded, and in one giant leap, landed right on the dragons head. Gaia gave a war cry as he attempted to attack the woman that landed on his ride, only to have his upper half be separated from his lower, and his surprised torso dissipate. With one small leap, the Performance of Sword jumped off the Dragon and lopped it in half. Yugi sat there in disbelief as the two halves of the dragon smashed into two of the three remaining hats. The only one not touched was the first and final one, thus revealing the location of the Dark Magician. The Performance of Sword, finished her attack, casually walked back to her spot.
|Yugi||Korin| |1300||850|
Joey sat there wordlessly along with Tristan and Mokuba as they saw this amazing display before them. Finally Mokuba broke the silence, "I... didn't know that could happen...", he shook his head. Joey and Tristan nodded at the same time, "...I've seen stuff like this before, but never that well executed...", Joey finished. Tea, on the other hand, was jumping for joy, "Alright Korin! Keep your confidence, and your sure to win!", Korin looked to Tea and smiled, nodding. Mokuba poked Tristan and pointed to Tea. All he got for an answer was, "Don't ask. I don't get it either." Mokuba shrugged and looked up to the 'box' where his brother must be watching the duel. Just as he was thinking about something, Yugi finally said something after his long silence, "Amazing. Just amazing. I've never seen such a perfect move made in my dueling carrier. Not only did your monster destroy my Dragon Champion, but she even managed to destroy two of my hats, leaving the Dark Magician completely revealed. Even with the cards you happen to posses, you have showed something much more then just luck. That was skill, my friend. Skill even I have yet to have shown others. But now it's my turn.", he looks to his deck, and takes the next card, "And the card I drew was the Book of spells!", Korin flinches, "Aw man...", Yugi nods and smiles, "Just as fast as you can create a monster to defeat me, I can bring a monster of my own to defeat yours!", the Magician emerges from the hat, and begins to glow as the power of the book increases his power. "Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!", the Magician mimicked Yugi's hand gestures and sent out a powerful wave of magic which smashes into the Performance of sword, obliterating her from the field. Korin slumped as he watches his monster become dust, "No... so close.", he looks up, "Good move Yugi. I forgot you had that magic card in your deck. Hmm, and I don't have a monster that I can play from my hand either. I guess this is my last card...", he nonchalantly takes the final card. He then smiles and then looks up to Yugi, "Do you surrender?", Yugi blinks a few times and then says, "Uh... no?", Korin chuckles and then reaches down to the face down card he placed at the beginning of the duel and flips it over. On the field, a strange machine appeared, churning and making a whole lot of noise. Korin smiles, "This is the Type Zero Magic Crusher. When I activate it, I can discard a magic card from my hand and do five hundred damage to your life points. But, according to these rules, I can only use this once per turn. But, I happen to have an interesting card here which will finish you off.", he puts down a magic card, "This is Ookazi. When I activate it, it creates a powerful fireball that crashes into your field causing you to lose 800 life points. So, if I use this and then discard this magic card...", he places a Turtle Oath in the graveyard and Yugi gasps, "No!" Korin nods and smiles as the Ookazi and Magic Crusher both go off at the same time, creating a large fireball that was sent crashing into Yugi's side of the field, "...you lose.", Yugi cringed at the large lightshow that Korin's combined fireball created, and then looked at the scores and watched his points drop to zero in disbelief. Korin looked down and grabbed all his cards, looking at the last card he had in his hand, and then placing all the cards in his deck box. Yugi retrieved all of his cards too and then turned to face the other side of the platform.
For a second, no one made a sound, not even Korin, who was now being lowered from the field. He walked over to Yugi, who had also made his way down and toward Korin. Korin smiled, "Good game.", and extended his hand to Yugi. Yugi looked to the hand, and then to Korin, and finally smiled, "Good game.", and he shook Korin's hand. Tea suddenly started to cheer, and was soon followed by Joey and Tristan, all the while Mokuba just sat there in disbelief. Finally coming around he said, "Uh, wow. This is incredible. Yugi beaten by a mysterious stranger! Wait till the presses hear about this!", Korin was the first to say something, "Actually, Yugi was holding back on me, so this match doesn't count for anything other then fun.", he looks to Yugi and nods. Yugi tilts his head to the side and then catches on, "Actually, I almost tried my best for a bit, but I guess the next time I duel you, we'll have to duel to the fullest.", he smiles. Mokuba tilts his head, "Wha? But... oh never mind.", he shakes his head and shrugs.
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Seto sat in his chair in the 'box', a secret place where he can go to keep watch over the duels, as well as the data on cards that had reached the field. He watched over the duel, which was now playing over on the screen in front of him, only at a much higher speed. His eyes looked back and forth at all the moves and what cards the two had drawn, as if looking for something. It isn't until after Korin's final move did Kaiba actually move, quickly slamming the pause button. He rewound the video to after Korin had placed the Ookazi on the field and then watched as he discarded the magic card for the Magic Crusher. The view pans in on Korin's hand as it shows off his final, unused card, "What!? That... can't be. Computer, can you confirm that card?", the computer beeped once and then said, "Card code 89631139. Card structure: 100% accurate. Card portrait: 100% accurate. Analyzing... Chance of card being one of four: 0%. Chance of Beta: 100%.", the computer finished analyzing the card on the screen and for a small while Kaiba just sat there in silence. Finally he spoke, "The beta Blue Eyes White Dragon... I MUST have it!", and with that, he jumps from his chair and out of the room.
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Mokuba looked over his shoulder to the dueling field he and the rest of Yugi's fiends had just left, wondering why his brother hadn't appeared yet to question the stranger yet. He shrugged it off as he looked back to the group. Korin still had his big smile, talking about how much fun the duel was and how 'cool' it was to see it all in person, whatever that meant. Tea was walking beside Korin, a little too close actually as she bumped into him every second, but she didn't seem to care. Joey and Tristan were arguing over who would win in a duel. Finally, Yugi was walking along side Korin. Mokuba wondered about Yugi, "He seems... smaller now. Must be because he isn't dueling right now, or something."
Yugi finally broke Korin's rant and said, "Well, I'm glad you liked it. It encourages you to duel more.", he smiles. Korin nods, "Yeah, dueling is so cool here. I can't wait to do it again.", he beams as he and the gang walked along. Finally he looked around and then asked, "Um, where are we going?" Yugi blinks as he stops, along with everyone else, "Um. I don't know.", he looks to Mokuba, "You said there was a new duelist here?", Mokuba nods, "Yeah, she's in the third...", but before Mokuba could finish the sentence, Seto Kaiba and three of his goons dropped from the ceiling! Everyone but Mokuba jumped back as Seto slowly stood up and pointed a finger at Korin, "You! Where did you get that card!?", Korin was taken aback by the whole entrance thing yelling out, "Holy cow, Seto Kaiba!", his face changed from surprised to puzzled as he asked, "Wait... why did you drop in from the ceiling?", Mokuba looked to Korin and said, "It's more dramatic this way.", and Korin ah's and nods in agreement at the camera.
With Kaiba still pointing a finger at Korin, Yugi walked a few steps forward, "Kaiba, why are you pointing your finger at him? What card are you talking about?", without even looking away from Korin, Seto replied Yugi with, "The beta Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Korin fidgeted and finally says, "Uhh... do you have to keep pointing your finger at me? It's kinda creeping me out...", he looks to his side where he finally notices Tea clinging to his arm. She looks at him and then quickly releases her hold, blushing. Seto sneered, "I'll stop pointing at you when you tell me how you got that card.", Korin sighed and then said, "Alright, I'll tell you. You see...", but before he could finish his sentence, the large screens to the side of the group suddenly sprung to life as it showed the same red headed girl Kaiba had been watching earlier. Everyone looked over to the screens as it showed the girl starting a duel, "Alright. I place this monster in face down defense mode. I end my turn.", Korin sat, watching the girl intently with wide eyes, "It can't be..."
The screen then shows her opponent, "Alright. I play dream clown in attack mode and attack your face down card!", the girl smiled evilly as she flips over the card, "You take one thousand two hundred damage. And now I'll switch Suijin to attack mode.", the kid gulped and then yelled out, "I forfeit the match! I forfeit the match!!", and the girl just laughs and says, "No.", as Suijin attacks the dream clown, utterly destroying it and taking all of the kids life points with it. Korin suddenly blurts out, "AHHHH!!! It's HER!", Yugi looks to Korin, "You know her!?", Korin looks to Yugi with wide eyes, "Know her!? Thats Deanna!", Yugi's eye's suddenly widen as he looks back to the girl, "...wow." Korin looked to Mokuba, "Third field, right?", Mokuba speechlessly nods as Korin dashes off to the field, with everyone following behind him. Finally Seto, stunned by the sudden outburst by Korin, finally realizes, "Hey... WAIT! Come back here!", as he runs after them.
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The crowd yet again watched in awe as the red haired girl known as Deanna walked over to her next victim and took her prize, a fist full of money. He smiled and said, "Thank you for your quick and painful demise. I was actually thinking that the duel would last longer, but thanks to your...", she cracks a bigger smile, "...dueling skills, I guess I have an opportunity for one more duel.", her smile disappears and she looks to the crowd that was oggling her, "Well? Anyone else think they can take all this money away from me?", she then smiles cutely, scaring everyone in the front half to death. The room was filled with lots of talking and the occasional sneeze, that is until the door to the arena was flung open and a loud voice rang over everyone else's, "DEANNA!" For a second everything was quiet, and then finally Deanna blinked and said to herself, "That can't be who I think it is...", she closes her eyes for a second and then opens them, "It is.", She starts to move toward the door, everyone in the crowd moving away from her as she does.
On the other side of the crowd, Denver, Yugi, and the rest of the gang weeded their way through toward the dueling field. Suddenly the crowd parted and Korin just sat there looking at Deanna before saying, "It IS you! I knew it!", Deanna just shifted her head to the side and said, "What are you doing here?", Korin smiled, "Well, nice to se you too. If you must know, I was eaten by a energy ball thingy.", Deanna nodded and said, "Thats how I got here. Hey... have your cards...", Korin holds up one of his Sonic Bird cards, "Every single one changed." Deanna nodded and then said, "So, you here because of me?", Korin smiles, "Oh come on, the world doesn't revolve around you. Not that I know of anyway. I came here to duel, much like you. Only...", he looks to her hand, still clenching the money she had won, "...I decided it would be a good idea to make as LITTLE change to here as possible, considering...", he looks around at the crowd and then said, "...um, you know. But anyway, now that we've met up, we can both pool our efforts of getting home.", he smiles, but then his smile drops as he looks at Deanna's face, "...oh no... No no no. You aren't planning on STAYING are you!?", Deanna just smiled and nodded, "Why leave, it's perfect here. I have dueled almost everyone here and won.", she notes the sad faces in the crowd. Korin looks over the crowd and then says, "Yes, but you should know better. I mean, dueling people that obviously have no chance of winning against you is a little cheap and to top it off you steal their lunch money!", she then simply says, "I didn't steal it.", she smiles, "They GAVE it to me."
Korin just shook his head, "Come on, we should go talk somewhere else. This place has too many...", but yet again, just before the sentence could be finished, the door to the field yet again was slammed open and the mighty form of a really pissed off Seto Kaiba shone into the room, "Get back here!", Korin looks over his shoulder and utters out, "Uh oh." Deanna just smiles, "Lemme guess, you dueled Kaiba and beat him horribly?", Korin looks back at Deanna, "Actually I dueled Yugi and won, but that's not why he's angry.", he turns around and watches as the crowd between Korin and Seto completely thin out and Seto Kaiba walk toward Korin, "I'm not done with you yet.", he walks right past everyone else, including his brother, and stands in front of Korin, his fists clenched and his eyes set to kill. Korin, on the other hand, just looked blankly at Seto, feeling the anger he started, and then said, "Sorry bout that. I'll be happy to complete our... business just as soon as I finish talking to my friend here.", he notes Deanna who was just a second from busting a gut, "Heh. And you said I made some changes around here, you're the one that got Seto Kaiba ready to kill you.", she chuckled. Kaiba snorted and then said, "Fine. I'll be 'closing' soon anyways and I'll be damned if I let you or any of your friends leave this building without some... information...", he looks to the crowd and then turns to meet them, "Alright. The shows over everyone. This is your thirty minute warning. Kaiba land will close in thirty minutes for...", he looks to Korin, "...special reasons."
The crowd awed and then slowly thinned until all that was left in the room were Kaiba, Korin, Yugi, Tea, Deanna, Tristan and Joey. Mokuba had to make sure everyone in the building had left, knowing full well that once his brother says something it's impossible to get him to go otherwise, no matter what. Korin nodded to Seto, "Alright, I'll be with you in a second.", he turns to Deanna, "Now, where were we?", "Well, you just told me that you beat Yugi in a duel, but that isn't why Kaiba was angry at you.", Korin face palms as Deanna cracks another smile, "Uh, before that... Oh yeah. I was gonna ask you how YOU got to this dimension. I was attacked by a energy thingy while walking to the Card shop.", Deanna ponders and then says, "Well, I was in the card shop and was shuffling my deck, getting ready to duel someone when the chair I was on got sucked into some energy thing, likely the same thing you met up with.", Korin nods, "And?", "And then I met you. The end.", she smiles. Korin just lowers his eyebrows and says, "You kinda missed a spot... like the entire story."
Suddenly from behind the dueling platform a figure walked out and approached the small bundle of people. Korin was the first to notice and suddenly yelped and hid behind Yugi, who by now had changed back into regular Yugi and was a lot smaller then Korin and thus covered very little of Korin. Deanna looks over to the figure and then says, "Ah, there you are. Come on Bakura, lets go have some more FUN.", she says and grabs him by the arm. Yugi is taken aback, "Bakura? You know her?", Bakura nods, "Why yes, I met her just yesterday. I'm guessing you know him by your conversation with each other?", he questions Deanna, who nods, "He's from my dimension."
It's around this point that Kaiba butts in, "Dimension?", Yugi answers, "We'll explain later...", Kaiba just shakes his head angrily, says, "Right.", and crosses his arms. Korin, still cowering behind Yugi, speaks up, "Uh, I don't think it's a good idea to leave just yet. I mean, we just met up and really should stick together...", he notices Bakura look at him and he shrinks back down behind Yugi, causing Bakura to look confused, "Um, why is he hiding behind Yugi?", he questions Deanna, who answers, "Because your big and scary silly.", she smiles and he just shakes his head. Yugi looks to Korin and says, "Don't worry, I'm sure Bakura can take care of Deanna. Besides, if you don't talk to Kaiba soon he's gonna explode...", he notes Seto who is about ready to start ripping new ones. Korin nods, "Yeah... I guess we could just meet up tomorrow..." Deanna suddenly says, "Yeah! We can duel! Well, after I beat Kaiba that is.", she smiles evilly and Yugi questions, "You're dueling Kaiba tomorrow?", "Yep. I challenged him the second I got here, but he said I would have to beat everyone that was in the place to be considered. So here I am, beating everyone, and I get the message on my platform that he'll duel me tomorrow. So then I decided to start dueling for 'fun'.", Korin lowers his brow, "You mean for money.", "Same thing. Anyways, Bakura said he'd show me around, so I guess we'll be leaving now.", she smiles and starts to walk out saying to Seto, "See you tomorrow...", and left the room.
Seto looked to Korin, "Alright, no more excuses, tell me, where did you get that Blue Eyes!?", Korin backed off a bit from Kaiba and then said, "Well, officially I got it when I bought the Kaiba starter deck from the store, but that wouldn't make any sense unless I could convince you I'm from another dimension.", Kaiba snorted, "Another dimension? Right.", he was obviously not convinced, so Korin reached into his pocket and brought out the starter box that he used to carry his extra cards. He reached into the box, took out all the cards, and handed Seto the box, "Here's the starter box I mentioned.", Seto looks down at the box, flips it over, and reads everything on the box. He then hands back the box and said, "That could be a fake.", he looks Korin right in the eye and Korin looked into his. For what seemed like hours, Seto looked deep into Korin's eyes and finally said, "But... you have cards that are extremely rare and authentic, even a I already have, the Beta Blue Eyes.", he looks to Yugi, "While I can't say for sure that he IS from another dimension, I get the feeling that Yugi does believe him.", Yugi nods, "Yes, I do believe him. I can feel it. He doesn't belong here. The reason we came here was to see if his cards were the real thing, but considering we met you here I guess we should ask for your help." Seto perks up saying, "My help?", he looks to Korin, "I'm guessing you want me to find out how to get him back home...", Korin nods, "Yeah. We also need help on a coin I have that I didn't have before I got here.", he takes out the coin and shows Seto, "I don't know what it is, but you may be able to find out." Seto smiles and says, "Well, if you need my help I guess you'll just have to hand over the Blue Eyes.", Korin smiles back, "Actually...", he walks over to Yugi and gives him the Blue Eyes Card, "...I can't let you have the card. It would taint the dimension, so instead I'm going to make a counter offer. If you don't help he, I'll give Yugi the Blue Eyes White Dragon."
The room was filled with silence as Seto considered this, "Give it to HIM!?", he points to Yugi. He starts to fill with rage finally yelling out, "You... I'm going to kill you!", and he jumps at Korin who yelps and jumps back from a punch, "Gah!", he dodges another punch and blocks a kick and jumps back, landing right at the dueling platform, "Uh oh... what have I done? I'm going to get my ass kicked by Seto Kaiba!", he thinks to himself as Seto does a roundhouse kick at Korin. With only an inch to spare he yanks himself out of the way onto the dueling field, "Jeez Kaiba, is this how you settle all your business meetings!?", and he backs away from Kaiba as he climbs up onto the field with Korin and starts to attack him again. Somehow, Korin kept blocking and dodging until finally Korin realizes, "Wait, how am I doing this? I don't know how to move like this!", and he catches Kaiba's fit in mid air, "Please stop attacking", he lets go of the fist and blocks a kick, "...me it's kinda annoying to", he jumps up into the air and lands behind Kaiba, "...do all these moves.", he lets out a sigh as he finishes his sentence and ducks out of the way of Kaiba who jumped at him. Unfortunately for Seto, he had just jumped back off the field and back down onto the pavement. Mokuba ran to his brother who wasn't about to give up, "Big brother don't!" Seto got up and dusted himself off. He nodded to his brother and then stared at Korin, "I'll help you. But you WILL pay for this 'transaction'.", he turned toward the exit and said, "Come back here tomorrow and I'll help you after I've beaten your girlfriend in a duel.", and he walks out, leaving Korin standing on the platform wondering. Finally after Seto gets out of the room it dawns on Korin, "HEY! SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFIEND!"
End 3.
Total Time: 1022 min Total Revisions: 145
Finally, it's not a question but just a general warning that I usually don't use main characters from a series that I make a fanfic of, so this is the first time I've ever written a fanfic with the original characters. So if it seems odd of characters to do certain things or whatnot then the creators of the series were doing it wrong, and I corrected them. Or I'm too lazy to make the character act properly, whatever comes first. ;)
Oh, and this chapter was a big pain to write, everything came out weird. :/ Chances are I'll rewrite most of it later, but for now I'll just do Chapter 4. :) Also, it's been a while since I updated the story, but considering how few people actually read it, who cares. :)
Chapter 3: Plot? That's the thing with legs, right?
Watching two large screens in a darkened room somewhere in the bowls of Kaiba Land, was the owner himself, Seto Kaiba. He watched two separate dueling platform at the same time, not wanting to miss something in either. To his right, he watched person after person be beaten by a mysterious red haired girl. On the other screen, he watched the duel between Yugi and another mysterious person only known by the name Korin. His brows were lowered over his eyes as he watched two separate people duel with such unusual cards. He looks over to the door, the only other object in the blank room other then the computer he sat at, and watches it close. He glances around a bit, and then watches as his brother appeared in the light of the screens.
"I had background checks run on both of them. Whoever they are, they don't exist. At least no document of them ever existing.", Mokuba finished talking and Seto just looked to the screen where Yugi and Korin were dueling, "Hmpf. Two exceptional duelists with rare and single print cards appear at my doorstep and start to duel as if nothing was wrong, with one dueling the 'King of games' like he was dueling a novice. Sounds a little too unusual to me. Well then, if I can't get what I want from intel, I guess I'll have to get the information I want the old fashioned way...", Kaiba said as he stood up from his chair walked out of the room, his brother in tow.
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"So you finally pulled the swords of revealing light?", Korin said with a smile. Yugi would have been taken aback by Korin's prediction if it weren't for the fact that he's 'watched' the show enough to know what cards Yugi would pull, "Why yes, that is the card I have.", he places the card onto the field, and in an instant the swords started to block out the visage of the Crab Turtle, as well as bathe the room in light. Korin chuckled, "Looks like I'm in for it. That is, unless I happen to have a card that could destroy the swords.", Yugi smiled back, "Oh. And do you have this card on the field?", Yugi motions to the still unused card that Korin had placed at the beginning of the duel. Korin shakes his head, "No, unfortunately that card can't do anything to your swords.", he shrugs, "Gonna do anything else?", Yugi looks over the field, and places a monster in face down defense mode and motions to Korin.
Korin shook his head and started to hope he pulled that certain card before Yugi could get enough power to take down the Turtle. He drew his next card and glanced it over. The tension ran high as Korin sat there looking at the card. Finally he looked up and shrugged, "I got nothing.", and placed the card in his hand. Yugi nodded and got his card. He smiled and said, "Well, time seems to be on my side.", and he placed the card down on the field in the magic zone. Korin glanced to Yugi and then back to the card, thinking to himself, "I don't remember him ever doing that before. But then again, he's probably trying to do something out of the norm to set me off track.", he glances down at his hand, and spots the card he drew in the previous turn, "Better keep that out of sight... can't believe I forgot to remove that before the duel. At least I'll be able to keep it from reaching the field." Korin sighed and got himself another card, "Hm, nothing again.", he placed the card into his hand.
As everyone down below started to hope for the best, Mokuba walked in from the door, "What I miss?", he asked as he walked in and looked up to the dueling platform, "Looks like Yugi has another win in the bag.", he then notes Tea looking at Korin intently, and then looks over to Joey and Tristan who are now looking intently at Yugi. He clears his throat and asks again, "Ahem... hello?", this time Joey turned his head to Mokuba, "Eh? Oh, Mokuba! Have you seen how great a duel this is?", Mokuba shakes his head, "No, I've been looking after the commotion in the other fields.", he looks to Korin, "So, what's with the Crab thing?", Joey smiles and says, "Oh, that's the Crab Turtle. It's Korin's most powerful monster. Yugi managed to hold it off with swords of revealing light, but now he's waiting for a card that can beat it.", he looks back at the duel. Mokuba nods, even though Joey had already looked away. Technically he had seen most of the duel already, but the swords thing must have happened while he and Seto were coming here. He looked behind him, but as usual, his brother wouldn't enter in the middle of the duel. He's probably watching from the box over the field. He looks back to the duel, interested in what Yugi would pull to stop the monster incased in the swords.
Yugi nodded at Korin, and then down to his deck, "I've managed to keep Korin at bay for the moment, but with only the cards in my hand, I can't defeat the Crab Turtle. Heart of the cards, I have faith in you...", he thinks to himself as he draws his next card. He looks to the card and smiles, "Not quite what I wanted, but it will have to do.", he says out loud while looking at Korin. He then thinks to himself, "With the card I already have down, I can stall for a little bit more time.", he looks to Korin again, "I do nothing on this turn.", Korin nodded and drew his card. His face tried to keep back a smile as he looked the card over, "Well, a little late, but still useful to me. I activate this card on your swords of revealing light. Despell!", the card activated instantly swirling around the Crab Turtle while the swords around it started to be whisked away in the force. Soon, not one sword was left and the Crab Turtle let out a roar. Yugi gasped, "Oh no...", Korin smiles, "Crab Turtle, destroy Yugi's face down card!", the Turtle let out another roar as it bounded toward the face down card, stomping over top of the poor thing. The Crab backed off and watched the remnants of the giant soldier of stone dissipated. Yugi looked shocked, he was hoping the defense card would last another turn so he could get the time he needed. But now he was at his last turn, and while he had the cards he needed to get more time, he didn't want to use it so soon, "His whole deck is based on luck and he's already proven how well his luck is. He might just get it right off the bat. But I have to play it...", he thinks to himself and draws a card, "Excellent.", he looks to Korin, "Alright. I didn't want to use this specific combo on you considering what it needs to be successful, but now I have no choice. I place the Dark Magician on the field, and activate the magical hats that I have on the field!", the hum of the holographic machine started up again as The Dark Magician appeared onto the field, only to be eaten up by the magical hats Yugi had put him in.
Joey looks to Tristan, "I don't know how this will work. Usually when Yugi uses this combo, he knows it'll take a few turns for his Magician to be found, and by that time it's usually too late. But in this case, Korin's luck might just find the Dark Magician.", Tristan nods, "It's against the odds for Yugi, but he would know this already, so he either has something up his sleeve, or he doesn't have any other moves to make...", Tea looks over to Joey and Tristan, and then back to Korin, who is still sporting the smile he had since he managed to get out the Crab Turtle. She looks down at the floor, thinking to herself, "Oh, I'm so confused... instead of helping my best friend, I'm helping a stranger that I can't help but feel sorry for.", she looks back at Korin, "But... he needs someone to cheer for him. Yugi must know that, which is why he hasn't said anything. Or did I hurt him by cheering for Korin...", she looks back at Yugi, who is also sporting a smile all his own, "Good thing this duel isn't for anything. It's bad enough with me and my confused feelings, who knows what I would do if this were important.", she looks back to Korin, "Good luck... Korin."
Korin nodded to himself and said, "Well Yugi, I didn't expect you to already have the hats on the field, but I guess you didn't want to use them. Anywho, I guess you'll want me to pick a hat, eh?", he smiles and draws a card. He then wordlessly places it in an unoccupied magic area, "Alright... Crab Turtle, attack the second hat!", yet again, the Turtle stomped over to the other side of the playing field and smashed down upon the hat it was ordered to. Everyone sat and watched as the dust cleared, revealing nothing under the hat. Korin smiled and shrugged, "Oh well, I guess I missed."
Yugi nodded and let out a small sigh, "That was close...", he drew the next card and then smiled, "Thats more like it. I'll place this under one of the remaining hats and end my turn.", Korin nodded, knowing what card that usually was. He drew his next card, and then looked up to Yugi's side of the field, "Alright, Crab Turtle, attack the middle hat!", The turtle jumped up from where it was and in an instant smashed the hat. But, as the dust cleared, something began to sparkle in the dust, "You activated my trap, the spell binding circle!", the circle suddenly flew out of the dust and was about to entrap the Turtle when the circle suddenly dissipated. "What?! That can't be!", Yugi exclaimed as he looked over to Korin, who was now holding the trap card he had placed down the turn before, "Oh yeah. Say hello to Solemn Judgment. It costs half my life points to use, but it has the power to dissipate any magic, trap, or even summon that you decide to do.", Yugi is taken quite aback from this and then he closes his eyes, tilts his head to the side and then smiles, "I should have known you would have something ready for that. The round goes to you Korin."
|Yugi||Korin| |1350||850|
Tristan looks to Joey, "I don't get it. He used half his life points to stop Yugi, but isn't that price a little big?", Joey nods, "Yeah, but at the same time, he managed to keep Yugi From killing his monster. If the circle had worked, the Crab Turtle would have been easy for the Dark Magician to destroy, and Korin would have taken a large hit in his life points. This way, he looses life points, but he keeps his monster.", he looks back to the duel, "Quite the move, for someone that claims to have never played with these rules before...", Mokuba looks over to Joey, "What's that?", Joey gacks and then shakes his hands saying, "N...nothing. Just mumbling to myself... that's all...", he chuckles and scratches the back of his head. Mokuba tilts his head and then says, "Uh... whatever...", and looks back to the field, thinking, "Never played with these rules? Who is this guy?"
Yugi lets out a sigh, "Well, I had hoped I would be able to destroy his Turtle, but instead I now have to do something to protect the Dark Magician.", he looks to his deck, "Only one card can do that...", he puts his hand to the deck, closes his eyes, and draws the next card. His eyes open and looks to the card. A smile covers his face as he says, "Well well.", Korin, for the first time, looked puzzled, "Eh?", Yugi smiles as he places his monsters reborn onto the field, "I monsters reborn Gaia the fierce knight!", Korin gacks as he watches Gaia appear in the first slot where he destroyed the hats, "You actually got it all?", Yugi nods as he places Curse of Dragon down and then activates the polymerization card. In a flash, the Dragon Champion was now on the field (2600/2100)! With his newly fused monster on the field, Yugi only had to give one command to Gaia, and the Turtle would be no more, "Dragon Champion... Destroy the Crab Turtle!", The Dragon rider lifted his weapon to the sky and let out a battle cry, the dragon under him letting out a roar as it flew up into the air, and in one quick blow destroyed the Crab Turtle.
|Yugi||Korin| |1350||800|
Korin blocked his face as the large explosion blew across his side of the field. As the dust cleared, he looked over to see his monster spot vacant and the powerful Dragon Champion flying over the field triumphantly, "Well, damn. That sucks.", he looks to Yugi, "Nice. I didn't expect you to make a move like that so early. But I guess Now you have quite the advantage. With the Dark Magician still hidden under the last of the hats and your Dragon Champion hovering over the field, I don't think I'll have anything to stop you.", he looks down and draws his next card, and with an sly smile, "But then again...", he drops a magic card to the field, "I activate the Commencement Dance Ritual!", he discards a Hungry Hamburger from his hand and places the Performance of Sword onto the field. Yugi watches the Ritual, and then looks to the stats on the card, "Only 1950 by 1850... You do have something else as well, right?", Korin nods, "Normally, this little lady would be easy to take down. But with the right accessories, she becomes quite the killer...", he places a magic card under the Performance of Sword, "This is the Malevolent Nuzzler. Not only does it make my Performance of Sword better looking, it increases her attack power by 700.", Yugi's eye's widen, "Such power!", Korin nods, "Yeah, it is rather good. Heh. Anyways, Performance of Sword, show the Dragon Champion what you can do!", the Performance of Sword nodded, and in one giant leap, landed right on the dragons head. Gaia gave a war cry as he attempted to attack the woman that landed on his ride, only to have his upper half be separated from his lower, and his surprised torso dissipate. With one small leap, the Performance of Sword jumped off the Dragon and lopped it in half. Yugi sat there in disbelief as the two halves of the dragon smashed into two of the three remaining hats. The only one not touched was the first and final one, thus revealing the location of the Dark Magician. The Performance of Sword, finished her attack, casually walked back to her spot.
|Yugi||Korin| |1300||850|
Joey sat there wordlessly along with Tristan and Mokuba as they saw this amazing display before them. Finally Mokuba broke the silence, "I... didn't know that could happen...", he shook his head. Joey and Tristan nodded at the same time, "...I've seen stuff like this before, but never that well executed...", Joey finished. Tea, on the other hand, was jumping for joy, "Alright Korin! Keep your confidence, and your sure to win!", Korin looked to Tea and smiled, nodding. Mokuba poked Tristan and pointed to Tea. All he got for an answer was, "Don't ask. I don't get it either." Mokuba shrugged and looked up to the 'box' where his brother must be watching the duel. Just as he was thinking about something, Yugi finally said something after his long silence, "Amazing. Just amazing. I've never seen such a perfect move made in my dueling carrier. Not only did your monster destroy my Dragon Champion, but she even managed to destroy two of my hats, leaving the Dark Magician completely revealed. Even with the cards you happen to posses, you have showed something much more then just luck. That was skill, my friend. Skill even I have yet to have shown others. But now it's my turn.", he looks to his deck, and takes the next card, "And the card I drew was the Book of spells!", Korin flinches, "Aw man...", Yugi nods and smiles, "Just as fast as you can create a monster to defeat me, I can bring a monster of my own to defeat yours!", the Magician emerges from the hat, and begins to glow as the power of the book increases his power. "Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!", the Magician mimicked Yugi's hand gestures and sent out a powerful wave of magic which smashes into the Performance of sword, obliterating her from the field. Korin slumped as he watches his monster become dust, "No... so close.", he looks up, "Good move Yugi. I forgot you had that magic card in your deck. Hmm, and I don't have a monster that I can play from my hand either. I guess this is my last card...", he nonchalantly takes the final card. He then smiles and then looks up to Yugi, "Do you surrender?", Yugi blinks a few times and then says, "Uh... no?", Korin chuckles and then reaches down to the face down card he placed at the beginning of the duel and flips it over. On the field, a strange machine appeared, churning and making a whole lot of noise. Korin smiles, "This is the Type Zero Magic Crusher. When I activate it, I can discard a magic card from my hand and do five hundred damage to your life points. But, according to these rules, I can only use this once per turn. But, I happen to have an interesting card here which will finish you off.", he puts down a magic card, "This is Ookazi. When I activate it, it creates a powerful fireball that crashes into your field causing you to lose 800 life points. So, if I use this and then discard this magic card...", he places a Turtle Oath in the graveyard and Yugi gasps, "No!" Korin nods and smiles as the Ookazi and Magic Crusher both go off at the same time, creating a large fireball that was sent crashing into Yugi's side of the field, "...you lose.", Yugi cringed at the large lightshow that Korin's combined fireball created, and then looked at the scores and watched his points drop to zero in disbelief. Korin looked down and grabbed all his cards, looking at the last card he had in his hand, and then placing all the cards in his deck box. Yugi retrieved all of his cards too and then turned to face the other side of the platform.
For a second, no one made a sound, not even Korin, who was now being lowered from the field. He walked over to Yugi, who had also made his way down and toward Korin. Korin smiled, "Good game.", and extended his hand to Yugi. Yugi looked to the hand, and then to Korin, and finally smiled, "Good game.", and he shook Korin's hand. Tea suddenly started to cheer, and was soon followed by Joey and Tristan, all the while Mokuba just sat there in disbelief. Finally coming around he said, "Uh, wow. This is incredible. Yugi beaten by a mysterious stranger! Wait till the presses hear about this!", Korin was the first to say something, "Actually, Yugi was holding back on me, so this match doesn't count for anything other then fun.", he looks to Yugi and nods. Yugi tilts his head to the side and then catches on, "Actually, I almost tried my best for a bit, but I guess the next time I duel you, we'll have to duel to the fullest.", he smiles. Mokuba tilts his head, "Wha? But... oh never mind.", he shakes his head and shrugs.
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Seto sat in his chair in the 'box', a secret place where he can go to keep watch over the duels, as well as the data on cards that had reached the field. He watched over the duel, which was now playing over on the screen in front of him, only at a much higher speed. His eyes looked back and forth at all the moves and what cards the two had drawn, as if looking for something. It isn't until after Korin's final move did Kaiba actually move, quickly slamming the pause button. He rewound the video to after Korin had placed the Ookazi on the field and then watched as he discarded the magic card for the Magic Crusher. The view pans in on Korin's hand as it shows off his final, unused card, "What!? That... can't be. Computer, can you confirm that card?", the computer beeped once and then said, "Card code 89631139. Card structure: 100% accurate. Card portrait: 100% accurate. Analyzing... Chance of card being one of four: 0%. Chance of Beta: 100%.", the computer finished analyzing the card on the screen and for a small while Kaiba just sat there in silence. Finally he spoke, "The beta Blue Eyes White Dragon... I MUST have it!", and with that, he jumps from his chair and out of the room.
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Mokuba looked over his shoulder to the dueling field he and the rest of Yugi's fiends had just left, wondering why his brother hadn't appeared yet to question the stranger yet. He shrugged it off as he looked back to the group. Korin still had his big smile, talking about how much fun the duel was and how 'cool' it was to see it all in person, whatever that meant. Tea was walking beside Korin, a little too close actually as she bumped into him every second, but she didn't seem to care. Joey and Tristan were arguing over who would win in a duel. Finally, Yugi was walking along side Korin. Mokuba wondered about Yugi, "He seems... smaller now. Must be because he isn't dueling right now, or something."
Yugi finally broke Korin's rant and said, "Well, I'm glad you liked it. It encourages you to duel more.", he smiles. Korin nods, "Yeah, dueling is so cool here. I can't wait to do it again.", he beams as he and the gang walked along. Finally he looked around and then asked, "Um, where are we going?" Yugi blinks as he stops, along with everyone else, "Um. I don't know.", he looks to Mokuba, "You said there was a new duelist here?", Mokuba nods, "Yeah, she's in the third...", but before Mokuba could finish the sentence, Seto Kaiba and three of his goons dropped from the ceiling! Everyone but Mokuba jumped back as Seto slowly stood up and pointed a finger at Korin, "You! Where did you get that card!?", Korin was taken aback by the whole entrance thing yelling out, "Holy cow, Seto Kaiba!", his face changed from surprised to puzzled as he asked, "Wait... why did you drop in from the ceiling?", Mokuba looked to Korin and said, "It's more dramatic this way.", and Korin ah's and nods in agreement at the camera.
With Kaiba still pointing a finger at Korin, Yugi walked a few steps forward, "Kaiba, why are you pointing your finger at him? What card are you talking about?", without even looking away from Korin, Seto replied Yugi with, "The beta Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Korin fidgeted and finally says, "Uhh... do you have to keep pointing your finger at me? It's kinda creeping me out...", he looks to his side where he finally notices Tea clinging to his arm. She looks at him and then quickly releases her hold, blushing. Seto sneered, "I'll stop pointing at you when you tell me how you got that card.", Korin sighed and then said, "Alright, I'll tell you. You see...", but before he could finish his sentence, the large screens to the side of the group suddenly sprung to life as it showed the same red headed girl Kaiba had been watching earlier. Everyone looked over to the screens as it showed the girl starting a duel, "Alright. I place this monster in face down defense mode. I end my turn.", Korin sat, watching the girl intently with wide eyes, "It can't be..."
The screen then shows her opponent, "Alright. I play dream clown in attack mode and attack your face down card!", the girl smiled evilly as she flips over the card, "You take one thousand two hundred damage. And now I'll switch Suijin to attack mode.", the kid gulped and then yelled out, "I forfeit the match! I forfeit the match!!", and the girl just laughs and says, "No.", as Suijin attacks the dream clown, utterly destroying it and taking all of the kids life points with it. Korin suddenly blurts out, "AHHHH!!! It's HER!", Yugi looks to Korin, "You know her!?", Korin looks to Yugi with wide eyes, "Know her!? Thats Deanna!", Yugi's eye's suddenly widen as he looks back to the girl, "...wow." Korin looked to Mokuba, "Third field, right?", Mokuba speechlessly nods as Korin dashes off to the field, with everyone following behind him. Finally Seto, stunned by the sudden outburst by Korin, finally realizes, "Hey... WAIT! Come back here!", as he runs after them.
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The crowd yet again watched in awe as the red haired girl known as Deanna walked over to her next victim and took her prize, a fist full of money. He smiled and said, "Thank you for your quick and painful demise. I was actually thinking that the duel would last longer, but thanks to your...", she cracks a bigger smile, "...dueling skills, I guess I have an opportunity for one more duel.", her smile disappears and she looks to the crowd that was oggling her, "Well? Anyone else think they can take all this money away from me?", she then smiles cutely, scaring everyone in the front half to death. The room was filled with lots of talking and the occasional sneeze, that is until the door to the arena was flung open and a loud voice rang over everyone else's, "DEANNA!" For a second everything was quiet, and then finally Deanna blinked and said to herself, "That can't be who I think it is...", she closes her eyes for a second and then opens them, "It is.", She starts to move toward the door, everyone in the crowd moving away from her as she does.
On the other side of the crowd, Denver, Yugi, and the rest of the gang weeded their way through toward the dueling field. Suddenly the crowd parted and Korin just sat there looking at Deanna before saying, "It IS you! I knew it!", Deanna just shifted her head to the side and said, "What are you doing here?", Korin smiled, "Well, nice to se you too. If you must know, I was eaten by a energy ball thingy.", Deanna nodded and said, "Thats how I got here. Hey... have your cards...", Korin holds up one of his Sonic Bird cards, "Every single one changed." Deanna nodded and then said, "So, you here because of me?", Korin smiles, "Oh come on, the world doesn't revolve around you. Not that I know of anyway. I came here to duel, much like you. Only...", he looks to her hand, still clenching the money she had won, "...I decided it would be a good idea to make as LITTLE change to here as possible, considering...", he looks around at the crowd and then said, "...um, you know. But anyway, now that we've met up, we can both pool our efforts of getting home.", he smiles, but then his smile drops as he looks at Deanna's face, "...oh no... No no no. You aren't planning on STAYING are you!?", Deanna just smiled and nodded, "Why leave, it's perfect here. I have dueled almost everyone here and won.", she notes the sad faces in the crowd. Korin looks over the crowd and then says, "Yes, but you should know better. I mean, dueling people that obviously have no chance of winning against you is a little cheap and to top it off you steal their lunch money!", she then simply says, "I didn't steal it.", she smiles, "They GAVE it to me."
Korin just shook his head, "Come on, we should go talk somewhere else. This place has too many...", but yet again, just before the sentence could be finished, the door to the field yet again was slammed open and the mighty form of a really pissed off Seto Kaiba shone into the room, "Get back here!", Korin looks over his shoulder and utters out, "Uh oh." Deanna just smiles, "Lemme guess, you dueled Kaiba and beat him horribly?", Korin looks back at Deanna, "Actually I dueled Yugi and won, but that's not why he's angry.", he turns around and watches as the crowd between Korin and Seto completely thin out and Seto Kaiba walk toward Korin, "I'm not done with you yet.", he walks right past everyone else, including his brother, and stands in front of Korin, his fists clenched and his eyes set to kill. Korin, on the other hand, just looked blankly at Seto, feeling the anger he started, and then said, "Sorry bout that. I'll be happy to complete our... business just as soon as I finish talking to my friend here.", he notes Deanna who was just a second from busting a gut, "Heh. And you said I made some changes around here, you're the one that got Seto Kaiba ready to kill you.", she chuckled. Kaiba snorted and then said, "Fine. I'll be 'closing' soon anyways and I'll be damned if I let you or any of your friends leave this building without some... information...", he looks to the crowd and then turns to meet them, "Alright. The shows over everyone. This is your thirty minute warning. Kaiba land will close in thirty minutes for...", he looks to Korin, "...special reasons."
The crowd awed and then slowly thinned until all that was left in the room were Kaiba, Korin, Yugi, Tea, Deanna, Tristan and Joey. Mokuba had to make sure everyone in the building had left, knowing full well that once his brother says something it's impossible to get him to go otherwise, no matter what. Korin nodded to Seto, "Alright, I'll be with you in a second.", he turns to Deanna, "Now, where were we?", "Well, you just told me that you beat Yugi in a duel, but that isn't why Kaiba was angry at you.", Korin face palms as Deanna cracks another smile, "Uh, before that... Oh yeah. I was gonna ask you how YOU got to this dimension. I was attacked by a energy thingy while walking to the Card shop.", Deanna ponders and then says, "Well, I was in the card shop and was shuffling my deck, getting ready to duel someone when the chair I was on got sucked into some energy thing, likely the same thing you met up with.", Korin nods, "And?", "And then I met you. The end.", she smiles. Korin just lowers his eyebrows and says, "You kinda missed a spot... like the entire story."
Suddenly from behind the dueling platform a figure walked out and approached the small bundle of people. Korin was the first to notice and suddenly yelped and hid behind Yugi, who by now had changed back into regular Yugi and was a lot smaller then Korin and thus covered very little of Korin. Deanna looks over to the figure and then says, "Ah, there you are. Come on Bakura, lets go have some more FUN.", she says and grabs him by the arm. Yugi is taken aback, "Bakura? You know her?", Bakura nods, "Why yes, I met her just yesterday. I'm guessing you know him by your conversation with each other?", he questions Deanna, who nods, "He's from my dimension."
It's around this point that Kaiba butts in, "Dimension?", Yugi answers, "We'll explain later...", Kaiba just shakes his head angrily, says, "Right.", and crosses his arms. Korin, still cowering behind Yugi, speaks up, "Uh, I don't think it's a good idea to leave just yet. I mean, we just met up and really should stick together...", he notices Bakura look at him and he shrinks back down behind Yugi, causing Bakura to look confused, "Um, why is he hiding behind Yugi?", he questions Deanna, who answers, "Because your big and scary silly.", she smiles and he just shakes his head. Yugi looks to Korin and says, "Don't worry, I'm sure Bakura can take care of Deanna. Besides, if you don't talk to Kaiba soon he's gonna explode...", he notes Seto who is about ready to start ripping new ones. Korin nods, "Yeah... I guess we could just meet up tomorrow..." Deanna suddenly says, "Yeah! We can duel! Well, after I beat Kaiba that is.", she smiles evilly and Yugi questions, "You're dueling Kaiba tomorrow?", "Yep. I challenged him the second I got here, but he said I would have to beat everyone that was in the place to be considered. So here I am, beating everyone, and I get the message on my platform that he'll duel me tomorrow. So then I decided to start dueling for 'fun'.", Korin lowers his brow, "You mean for money.", "Same thing. Anyways, Bakura said he'd show me around, so I guess we'll be leaving now.", she smiles and starts to walk out saying to Seto, "See you tomorrow...", and left the room.
Seto looked to Korin, "Alright, no more excuses, tell me, where did you get that Blue Eyes!?", Korin backed off a bit from Kaiba and then said, "Well, officially I got it when I bought the Kaiba starter deck from the store, but that wouldn't make any sense unless I could convince you I'm from another dimension.", Kaiba snorted, "Another dimension? Right.", he was obviously not convinced, so Korin reached into his pocket and brought out the starter box that he used to carry his extra cards. He reached into the box, took out all the cards, and handed Seto the box, "Here's the starter box I mentioned.", Seto looks down at the box, flips it over, and reads everything on the box. He then hands back the box and said, "That could be a fake.", he looks Korin right in the eye and Korin looked into his. For what seemed like hours, Seto looked deep into Korin's eyes and finally said, "But... you have cards that are extremely rare and authentic, even a I already have, the Beta Blue Eyes.", he looks to Yugi, "While I can't say for sure that he IS from another dimension, I get the feeling that Yugi does believe him.", Yugi nods, "Yes, I do believe him. I can feel it. He doesn't belong here. The reason we came here was to see if his cards were the real thing, but considering we met you here I guess we should ask for your help." Seto perks up saying, "My help?", he looks to Korin, "I'm guessing you want me to find out how to get him back home...", Korin nods, "Yeah. We also need help on a coin I have that I didn't have before I got here.", he takes out the coin and shows Seto, "I don't know what it is, but you may be able to find out." Seto smiles and says, "Well, if you need my help I guess you'll just have to hand over the Blue Eyes.", Korin smiles back, "Actually...", he walks over to Yugi and gives him the Blue Eyes Card, "...I can't let you have the card. It would taint the dimension, so instead I'm going to make a counter offer. If you don't help he, I'll give Yugi the Blue Eyes White Dragon."
The room was filled with silence as Seto considered this, "Give it to HIM!?", he points to Yugi. He starts to fill with rage finally yelling out, "You... I'm going to kill you!", and he jumps at Korin who yelps and jumps back from a punch, "Gah!", he dodges another punch and blocks a kick and jumps back, landing right at the dueling platform, "Uh oh... what have I done? I'm going to get my ass kicked by Seto Kaiba!", he thinks to himself as Seto does a roundhouse kick at Korin. With only an inch to spare he yanks himself out of the way onto the dueling field, "Jeez Kaiba, is this how you settle all your business meetings!?", and he backs away from Kaiba as he climbs up onto the field with Korin and starts to attack him again. Somehow, Korin kept blocking and dodging until finally Korin realizes, "Wait, how am I doing this? I don't know how to move like this!", and he catches Kaiba's fit in mid air, "Please stop attacking", he lets go of the fist and blocks a kick, "...me it's kinda annoying to", he jumps up into the air and lands behind Kaiba, "...do all these moves.", he lets out a sigh as he finishes his sentence and ducks out of the way of Kaiba who jumped at him. Unfortunately for Seto, he had just jumped back off the field and back down onto the pavement. Mokuba ran to his brother who wasn't about to give up, "Big brother don't!" Seto got up and dusted himself off. He nodded to his brother and then stared at Korin, "I'll help you. But you WILL pay for this 'transaction'.", he turned toward the exit and said, "Come back here tomorrow and I'll help you after I've beaten your girlfriend in a duel.", and he walks out, leaving Korin standing on the platform wondering. Finally after Seto gets out of the room it dawns on Korin, "HEY! SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFIEND!"
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