Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! If I did, this would be a real episode, and I'd be rich. But I don't, and I'm not rich. In fact I'm dirt poor. But I hope you can enjoy this Fic nonetheless.
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Fate of the Doomed
By Hayabusa Will (TheNameIsWill@AOL.Com)
Chapter Two-Pegasus and Mai
Pegasus stopped as he looked over several duelists, who were comparing their decks. One was boasting and showing his opponent a card with a picture of a fairy with several wings, while the other argued with his rare Buster Blader card. "I can't take my Locator Cards from any duelist. I'm not some nobody...I'm Maxamillion Pegasus. I must find only the best duelists, like...ah" He saw a woman in a purple outfit with blonde hair. She had five Locator cards. ~It's Mai Valentine...I think I should challenge her...~
"Hey, dude, it's Pegasus!" A teenager in green said aloud.
"Huh? Pegasus?" A large crowd had quickly gathered, all of them chattering loudly about this.
"But I thought you were dead!" Said one of them.
"I am dead, and unless you want to join me, you'll all get away right now" Pegasus stated. "Or, perhaps you'd like a duel" He held up his cards.
"I'm game!" Stated a familiar voice. Rex Raptor dashed to the front. "I'll take you on, what's your bid?!"
Pegasus kneeled so he was at Rex's height. "Listen kid, I'm not here to duel anyone. I wasn't expecting anyone to be truly stupid enough to accept my challenge. I'm sorry, but I must send you away. Taking your cards would be too unfair"
"Oh please, you're a washed up old man with an eye patch" Rex rolled his eyes. "Do you really think you're that great? You're old news, Pegasus"
"Do not speak to me that way, Rex Raptor" Pegasus stated. "Or else--"
"Or else what? Are you going to use your little special cards against me?" Rex began to laugh loudly. "Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"If that's how you want it, then we'll duel!" Pegasus stated. He held out his Duel Disk. "One on one, the bet is three locator cards, and one Rare card for each"
"I only have one..." Rex said sadly. "I won a card against some duelist after I took mine back from Espa Roba, with my Serpent Night Dragon, when he unrightfully them it from me, but then I lost it when I challenged Mako Tsunami..."
"Very well then. One apiece. Let us duel" Pegasus stated, shuffling his deck.
Pegasus: 4000
R.Raptor: 4000
"I'll start by summoning this one, Trackadon!" Rex placed down his monster card, bringing forth a small, green-brown monster with strips. 1300/800 "And, I can also summon this one by counting it as a special summon! Gilasaurus!" Another green dinosaur appeared. 1400/400 "Good luck taking on TWO monsters on turn one, Pegsy"
Pegasus drew his next card. "I activate the Black Illusion Ritual to sacrifice a monster from my hand, and summon Relinquished!" He placed down his Ritual. Two golden goblets appeared and spewed outwards a purple dust. Out of it emerged a white monster, known as Relinquished. 0/0 "And I'll use its effect, to absorb Gilasaurus!" Relinquished began to suck the dinosaur in. Gilasaurus tried to resist, but couldn't.
"No, my Gilasaurus!" Rex could only look on helplessly as the Gilasaurus was inhaled into Relinquished. Its head appeared in its side.
"Since special summoned monsters can't attack on their first turn, I'll just set one card and end my turn" Pegasus grinned.
"Excellent! Now I'll play this Polymerization card to fuse my Trackadon with Flame Viper to create Pragtical!" 1900/1500. Rex smirked as his newly created Dinosaur monster stood tall. "Now you regret taking it, huh? Now I'll set this card. And since a Fusion monster can't attack the turn it was created either, I have to set one card pass to you"
"Ooh, this is nice, isn't it? I activate the card known as Heavy Storm" He played a Magic card of a man being swept away by a huge tempest.
"What?! No!" Rex gasped.
"That's right, Rex. All Magic and Trap cards are destroyed" Pegasus smirked.
A strange-looking stand appeared on Rex's side of the field and exploded. "No, my Magic Jammer! What'd be the point of using it on that anyway? I have no others...now he's free to attack"
"That's not quite the whole story, Rex" Pegasus stated. "Your Gilasaurus that Relinquished absorbed, is also destroyed" The Dinosaur monster absorbed was blown away by the storm. "Which means I can absorb Pragtical!" Relinquished began to inhale again, this time pulling Pragtical into its grip. "And now I'll summon my Dark Rabbit" A black-colored cartoon rabbit appeared on the scene, chuckling idiotically. 1100/1500. "And I'll activate Axe of Despair!" A gaint Axe appeared in Relinquished's right hand. "The sum of Relinquished and Dark Rabbit's attack points bring you to zero in an automatic direct assault!"
"No...not that quick..." Rex groaned.
"Dark Rabbit, Dark Punch!"
Dark Rabbit chuckled as its hand turned into a boxing glove. It stretched its arm to whack Rex upside the chin.
Pegasus: 4000
R.Raptor: 2900
"Now, Relinquished, Pilfered Power Axe!"
Relinquished raised the Axe of Despair as began to glow. Relinquished shot its pink pilfered power attack at the Axe, causing it to turn pink. Relinquished finished off Rex with a swipe of its Axe.
Pegasus: 4000
R.Raptor: 0
"Oh...this isn't right..." Rex handed Pegasus his Locator Card and Serpent Night Dragon. "Here you go, Pegasus"
He saw Rex sigh and start to walk away sadly. "Wait, Rex" Rex stopped and turned around. Pegasus threw the two cards back to him. "You can keep these. I think the lesson you learned was quite enough"
"Gee thanks Mr. Pegasus, uh, sir!" Rex said happily, now having his Locator card and favorite monster in his possession.
"But however..."
"Yeah?"
"I still deserve something, so...that Magic Jammer you had will do nicely" Pegasus smirked.
"I thought this was too good to be true..." Rex sighed, turning over his Trap card to Pegasus.
"Now, to challenge..." Pegasus looked around. "What? Mai is gone...curse that Rex Raptor. I should have kept his Locator card...or at least have printed more Magic Jammer cards for myself when I first started distributing the cards"
"YUGI!" Joey dashed through the streets of Battle City. "Yugi, where are you?" He looked about. "Ah man, I gotta warn Yugi...if Pegasus really is back, he's gonna want revenge on him for Duelist Kingdom. He kept running, trying to find his friend, but he was nowhere in sight. "Yugi! Yugi, where are you?! YUUUUUGIIII!"
"Is that Joey?" Yami looked to the left. He heard Joey's voice but didn't see him.
"Yuge, I'm here!" Joey dashed in from the left, turning the corner. He stopped and doubled-over, panting heavily.
"Joey? What's the matter?" Yami asked, looking to Joey.
Joey looked over to his friend. "It's...Pegasus. He's back, and he's duelin' again!"
"Pegasus?" Asked Yugi. "But I thought that Pegasus had..."
"I know. I thought he had died too" Joey replied. "He was wearing a cloak. I think you know what that might mean"
"Marik...Pegasus must be working for the Rare Hunters" Yami stated. "Did he harm you in any way? What did he say?"
"He didn't say anything, just that he needed to get to the finals" Joey replied. "He took three of my locator cards! He beat me..." He looked down sadly. "I let my greed take over. I shouldn't have done it. I only accepted Pegasus' challenge because he offered me Toon World, Black Illusion Ritual and Relinquished if I won...I knew I would be doing so much better if I won, but he won too easily...it was a mistake..."
Yami looked at Joey seriously. He never saw Joey look so saddened before over something like this since his Red-Eyes Black Dragon was stolen by Rare Hunters. But, knowing that he should change the subject, Yami spoke. "Well, we can't just sit around now, Joey. We have to do something, if Pegasus is really back. But I wonder, if he wants revenge on me, why would he need Locator Cards?"
"I don't know" Joey replied. "But I don't know much about him, and that twisted guy thinks of the weirdest things. You never know"
Yami nodded. "Where did you say you dueled him?"
"It wasn't too far off, in a part of down that was kind of deserted" Joey pointed.
"Let's go"
Pegasus looked around. "Where is..." He finally caught Mai's purple outfit. "There she is" He walked over to Mai and put a hand on her shoulder. "Mai"
"Huh, who's--" She turned around looked over in shock. "What?! Pegasus! But you're...dead!"
"If I was dead, I couldn't be here, now could I?" Pegasus stated. "Do you have some time?"
"Um...sure..." Mai replied nervously.
"Two please" Pegasus could be heard requesting a few minutes later. They had walked to an ice cream vendor and Pegasus purchased ice cream for the two of them. He handed one to Mai and began eating the other.
"So, what are you doing here, Pegasus?" Mai asked. She licked her ice cream once. "Everyone thought you had died at Duelist Kingdom. What is going on?"
"Well...you see..." Pegasus began to recall his story. "After I was attacked by the spirit of Bakura Ryou's Millennium Ring, I was dying. My Millennium Eye was stolen and I was losing blood from my face fast. I could see my skin going pale, and I knew I was going to die...all of my workers seemed to know it too. They left me on the bed and looked solemn as they did. They left to leave my last moments in peace. I requested it so. I could feel everything going...and then he arrived..."
"He? Who's he?" Asked Mai, looking at him interestedly.
"Ice cream" Pegasus nodded to her. Mai looked down and realized her ice cream was starting to drip and quickly began to lick the dripping part before it fell. Pegasus returned to his story. "He said his name was Marik, Marik Ishtar. He knew who I was, that I invented Duel Monsters and how I could help him. So he granted me a chance to continue life, and to continue for hundreds of years, but I had to help him...and so I did, by helping him retrieve the Winged Dragon of Ra and Slifer the Sky Dragon from where I had told Ishizu to hide them. But soon I realized...how wrong I was being" He looked down sadly. Pegasus looked as if he was in true regret as for what he did.
"Ice cream" Mai said quickly. Pegasus realized that the ice cream was dripping down the cone, and quickly proceeded to eat the part that was dripping.
"Thank you"
"Don't mention it"
"What was I saying? As yes..." Pegasus sighed. "I tried to resist, but he used an ancient magic on me...his own Millennium item. I wanted to resist, but without my Millennium Eye I was too weak to fight him, and so I was brought under control. I was made into a Rare Hunter. I had to defeat countless duelists and take their cards...and a few, I had to...had to..." Pegasus couldn't even continue. He looked away, teeth gritted as he remembered everything that had happened. "I had to kill them...my hands were stained with their blood. But there was nothing I could do, I had to continue doing it, as much as I didn't want to. And until now, I was stuck. I finally fought him off...but now after knowing what is to happen, I can't let it happen. I have come to stop him"
"What's he going to do?" Mai asked.
"I...can't tell you that, Mai" Pegasus replied. He took another bite of his ice cream and quickly swallowed it. "I don't think I'd ever be able to even finish...I'd choke up first"
~He sure has changed...~ Mai thought as she looked at Pegasus, who seemed extremely saddened. ~He was confident and happy all the time. But now he's more sensitive. Even so, he's still a weepy mess. This has to stop...~
"Pegasus, don't be like this" Mai walked closer to him. "I know it's hard to have to live with what you've done but it's not worth turning into a crybaby about! Snap out of it, you're here to duel and to get back your vengeance! If you're going to duel, then duel, don't cry about things!"
"I guess...you're right..." Pegasus lifted up his ice cream cone, some of it falling down his hand. "I guess I have to let it go now..." He finished the ice cream and ate the last of it before throwing the cone in the garbage. "I apologize for being so...oversensitive"
"Hasn't what I said gotten through to you at all? Don't be sorry! If you're going to act like this, you might as well run to the story and buy some angel food cake and paper dolls you wussy girl! Come on, you need to learn how you used to be"
"I guess...you're right" Pegasus sighed. "I guess losing my Millennium Eye exactly hasn't helped...after it was stolen from me"
"Stolen?" Mai asked. Pegasus nodded. "Well, I guess that explains the eye patch. But who would steal your Eye, and why in the world would they want to?"
"It was...Bakura. Bakura Ryou"
"Bakura? But...he seems hardly capable of even killing a fly. Believe me, he freaked out and ran around screaming and begging for mercy when one flew on his sweater when we were on our way to your castle during the Duelist Kingdom Tournament" Mai recalled. "How could he steal your Eye?"
"I'm not quite sure...he had said that he had been using this Magic for thousands of years, which makes me thing that maybe it wasn't Bakura at all" Pegasus looked around. "So what now?"
"I'm guessing that you're heading to the finals too" Mai reached into her vest's pocket and took out five clear cards. "I have five Locator Cards now. If you'd like I can help you win some, too"
"No need" Pegasus replied. He took his three out of his pocket. "I have three of my own"
"How did you get any Locator Cards if you had none to start with?"
"I challenged someone with greater stakes than Locator Cards...my rarest cards of all, Toon World, Black Illusion Ritual and Relinquished" Pegasus replied. "It was too risky to bet them, but I had to do it"
"Well, then let's go find a duel" Mai said.
"You need a Locator Card too, don't you?" Pegasus asked.
"Yeah...and I'd like to duel with you too, if you don't mind" Mai looked away quickly as some colored formed in her face.
"Sure, I'd like to duel by your side, Mai" Pegasus replied kindly.
Mai's face turned even more red. "Well...what are we waiting for? Come on, let's go, and let's get to the finals!"
The two duelists walked off rather quickly, heading for whatever was to come. Although their reasons were different, both Pegasus and Mai had more in common than they thought...and soon they might discover it. But, maybe someone else was in the way...
Far away, Marik chuckled. He stood by his motorcycle, holding his Millennium Rod. "Pegasus escapes and is already planning to take me down? Ha, that is laughable. He thinks he has the power to stand up to The Winged Dragon of Ra, the God card he created and put into my hands? That is pathetic. His cartoon monsters will fall to the supreme power of Ra, and to the power of the Millennium Rod! I will show Pegasus no mercy, and he shall fall, as will Yami, and Seto Kaiba! Ahahahahaha!" And so his cheesy Skeletor laugh echoed into the night. But one thing was certain, Marik had things planned for Pegasus, just as Pegasus was planning to take on him.
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Fate of the Doomed
By Hayabusa Will (TheNameIsWill@AOL.Com)
Chapter Two-Pegasus and Mai
Pegasus stopped as he looked over several duelists, who were comparing their decks. One was boasting and showing his opponent a card with a picture of a fairy with several wings, while the other argued with his rare Buster Blader card. "I can't take my Locator Cards from any duelist. I'm not some nobody...I'm Maxamillion Pegasus. I must find only the best duelists, like...ah" He saw a woman in a purple outfit with blonde hair. She had five Locator cards. ~It's Mai Valentine...I think I should challenge her...~
"Hey, dude, it's Pegasus!" A teenager in green said aloud.
"Huh? Pegasus?" A large crowd had quickly gathered, all of them chattering loudly about this.
"But I thought you were dead!" Said one of them.
"I am dead, and unless you want to join me, you'll all get away right now" Pegasus stated. "Or, perhaps you'd like a duel" He held up his cards.
"I'm game!" Stated a familiar voice. Rex Raptor dashed to the front. "I'll take you on, what's your bid?!"
Pegasus kneeled so he was at Rex's height. "Listen kid, I'm not here to duel anyone. I wasn't expecting anyone to be truly stupid enough to accept my challenge. I'm sorry, but I must send you away. Taking your cards would be too unfair"
"Oh please, you're a washed up old man with an eye patch" Rex rolled his eyes. "Do you really think you're that great? You're old news, Pegasus"
"Do not speak to me that way, Rex Raptor" Pegasus stated. "Or else--"
"Or else what? Are you going to use your little special cards against me?" Rex began to laugh loudly. "Ha ha ha ha ha!"
"If that's how you want it, then we'll duel!" Pegasus stated. He held out his Duel Disk. "One on one, the bet is three locator cards, and one Rare card for each"
"I only have one..." Rex said sadly. "I won a card against some duelist after I took mine back from Espa Roba, with my Serpent Night Dragon, when he unrightfully them it from me, but then I lost it when I challenged Mako Tsunami..."
"Very well then. One apiece. Let us duel" Pegasus stated, shuffling his deck.
Pegasus: 4000
R.Raptor: 4000
"I'll start by summoning this one, Trackadon!" Rex placed down his monster card, bringing forth a small, green-brown monster with strips. 1300/800 "And, I can also summon this one by counting it as a special summon! Gilasaurus!" Another green dinosaur appeared. 1400/400 "Good luck taking on TWO monsters on turn one, Pegsy"
Pegasus drew his next card. "I activate the Black Illusion Ritual to sacrifice a monster from my hand, and summon Relinquished!" He placed down his Ritual. Two golden goblets appeared and spewed outwards a purple dust. Out of it emerged a white monster, known as Relinquished. 0/0 "And I'll use its effect, to absorb Gilasaurus!" Relinquished began to suck the dinosaur in. Gilasaurus tried to resist, but couldn't.
"No, my Gilasaurus!" Rex could only look on helplessly as the Gilasaurus was inhaled into Relinquished. Its head appeared in its side.
"Since special summoned monsters can't attack on their first turn, I'll just set one card and end my turn" Pegasus grinned.
"Excellent! Now I'll play this Polymerization card to fuse my Trackadon with Flame Viper to create Pragtical!" 1900/1500. Rex smirked as his newly created Dinosaur monster stood tall. "Now you regret taking it, huh? Now I'll set this card. And since a Fusion monster can't attack the turn it was created either, I have to set one card pass to you"
"Ooh, this is nice, isn't it? I activate the card known as Heavy Storm" He played a Magic card of a man being swept away by a huge tempest.
"What?! No!" Rex gasped.
"That's right, Rex. All Magic and Trap cards are destroyed" Pegasus smirked.
A strange-looking stand appeared on Rex's side of the field and exploded. "No, my Magic Jammer! What'd be the point of using it on that anyway? I have no others...now he's free to attack"
"That's not quite the whole story, Rex" Pegasus stated. "Your Gilasaurus that Relinquished absorbed, is also destroyed" The Dinosaur monster absorbed was blown away by the storm. "Which means I can absorb Pragtical!" Relinquished began to inhale again, this time pulling Pragtical into its grip. "And now I'll summon my Dark Rabbit" A black-colored cartoon rabbit appeared on the scene, chuckling idiotically. 1100/1500. "And I'll activate Axe of Despair!" A gaint Axe appeared in Relinquished's right hand. "The sum of Relinquished and Dark Rabbit's attack points bring you to zero in an automatic direct assault!"
"No...not that quick..." Rex groaned.
"Dark Rabbit, Dark Punch!"
Dark Rabbit chuckled as its hand turned into a boxing glove. It stretched its arm to whack Rex upside the chin.
Pegasus: 4000
R.Raptor: 2900
"Now, Relinquished, Pilfered Power Axe!"
Relinquished raised the Axe of Despair as began to glow. Relinquished shot its pink pilfered power attack at the Axe, causing it to turn pink. Relinquished finished off Rex with a swipe of its Axe.
Pegasus: 4000
R.Raptor: 0
"Oh...this isn't right..." Rex handed Pegasus his Locator Card and Serpent Night Dragon. "Here you go, Pegasus"
He saw Rex sigh and start to walk away sadly. "Wait, Rex" Rex stopped and turned around. Pegasus threw the two cards back to him. "You can keep these. I think the lesson you learned was quite enough"
"Gee thanks Mr. Pegasus, uh, sir!" Rex said happily, now having his Locator card and favorite monster in his possession.
"But however..."
"Yeah?"
"I still deserve something, so...that Magic Jammer you had will do nicely" Pegasus smirked.
"I thought this was too good to be true..." Rex sighed, turning over his Trap card to Pegasus.
"Now, to challenge..." Pegasus looked around. "What? Mai is gone...curse that Rex Raptor. I should have kept his Locator card...or at least have printed more Magic Jammer cards for myself when I first started distributing the cards"
"YUGI!" Joey dashed through the streets of Battle City. "Yugi, where are you?" He looked about. "Ah man, I gotta warn Yugi...if Pegasus really is back, he's gonna want revenge on him for Duelist Kingdom. He kept running, trying to find his friend, but he was nowhere in sight. "Yugi! Yugi, where are you?! YUUUUUGIIII!"
"Is that Joey?" Yami looked to the left. He heard Joey's voice but didn't see him.
"Yuge, I'm here!" Joey dashed in from the left, turning the corner. He stopped and doubled-over, panting heavily.
"Joey? What's the matter?" Yami asked, looking to Joey.
Joey looked over to his friend. "It's...Pegasus. He's back, and he's duelin' again!"
"Pegasus?" Asked Yugi. "But I thought that Pegasus had..."
"I know. I thought he had died too" Joey replied. "He was wearing a cloak. I think you know what that might mean"
"Marik...Pegasus must be working for the Rare Hunters" Yami stated. "Did he harm you in any way? What did he say?"
"He didn't say anything, just that he needed to get to the finals" Joey replied. "He took three of my locator cards! He beat me..." He looked down sadly. "I let my greed take over. I shouldn't have done it. I only accepted Pegasus' challenge because he offered me Toon World, Black Illusion Ritual and Relinquished if I won...I knew I would be doing so much better if I won, but he won too easily...it was a mistake..."
Yami looked at Joey seriously. He never saw Joey look so saddened before over something like this since his Red-Eyes Black Dragon was stolen by Rare Hunters. But, knowing that he should change the subject, Yami spoke. "Well, we can't just sit around now, Joey. We have to do something, if Pegasus is really back. But I wonder, if he wants revenge on me, why would he need Locator Cards?"
"I don't know" Joey replied. "But I don't know much about him, and that twisted guy thinks of the weirdest things. You never know"
Yami nodded. "Where did you say you dueled him?"
"It wasn't too far off, in a part of down that was kind of deserted" Joey pointed.
"Let's go"
Pegasus looked around. "Where is..." He finally caught Mai's purple outfit. "There she is" He walked over to Mai and put a hand on her shoulder. "Mai"
"Huh, who's--" She turned around looked over in shock. "What?! Pegasus! But you're...dead!"
"If I was dead, I couldn't be here, now could I?" Pegasus stated. "Do you have some time?"
"Um...sure..." Mai replied nervously.
"Two please" Pegasus could be heard requesting a few minutes later. They had walked to an ice cream vendor and Pegasus purchased ice cream for the two of them. He handed one to Mai and began eating the other.
"So, what are you doing here, Pegasus?" Mai asked. She licked her ice cream once. "Everyone thought you had died at Duelist Kingdom. What is going on?"
"Well...you see..." Pegasus began to recall his story. "After I was attacked by the spirit of Bakura Ryou's Millennium Ring, I was dying. My Millennium Eye was stolen and I was losing blood from my face fast. I could see my skin going pale, and I knew I was going to die...all of my workers seemed to know it too. They left me on the bed and looked solemn as they did. They left to leave my last moments in peace. I requested it so. I could feel everything going...and then he arrived..."
"He? Who's he?" Asked Mai, looking at him interestedly.
"Ice cream" Pegasus nodded to her. Mai looked down and realized her ice cream was starting to drip and quickly began to lick the dripping part before it fell. Pegasus returned to his story. "He said his name was Marik, Marik Ishtar. He knew who I was, that I invented Duel Monsters and how I could help him. So he granted me a chance to continue life, and to continue for hundreds of years, but I had to help him...and so I did, by helping him retrieve the Winged Dragon of Ra and Slifer the Sky Dragon from where I had told Ishizu to hide them. But soon I realized...how wrong I was being" He looked down sadly. Pegasus looked as if he was in true regret as for what he did.
"Ice cream" Mai said quickly. Pegasus realized that the ice cream was dripping down the cone, and quickly proceeded to eat the part that was dripping.
"Thank you"
"Don't mention it"
"What was I saying? As yes..." Pegasus sighed. "I tried to resist, but he used an ancient magic on me...his own Millennium item. I wanted to resist, but without my Millennium Eye I was too weak to fight him, and so I was brought under control. I was made into a Rare Hunter. I had to defeat countless duelists and take their cards...and a few, I had to...had to..." Pegasus couldn't even continue. He looked away, teeth gritted as he remembered everything that had happened. "I had to kill them...my hands were stained with their blood. But there was nothing I could do, I had to continue doing it, as much as I didn't want to. And until now, I was stuck. I finally fought him off...but now after knowing what is to happen, I can't let it happen. I have come to stop him"
"What's he going to do?" Mai asked.
"I...can't tell you that, Mai" Pegasus replied. He took another bite of his ice cream and quickly swallowed it. "I don't think I'd ever be able to even finish...I'd choke up first"
~He sure has changed...~ Mai thought as she looked at Pegasus, who seemed extremely saddened. ~He was confident and happy all the time. But now he's more sensitive. Even so, he's still a weepy mess. This has to stop...~
"Pegasus, don't be like this" Mai walked closer to him. "I know it's hard to have to live with what you've done but it's not worth turning into a crybaby about! Snap out of it, you're here to duel and to get back your vengeance! If you're going to duel, then duel, don't cry about things!"
"I guess...you're right..." Pegasus lifted up his ice cream cone, some of it falling down his hand. "I guess I have to let it go now..." He finished the ice cream and ate the last of it before throwing the cone in the garbage. "I apologize for being so...oversensitive"
"Hasn't what I said gotten through to you at all? Don't be sorry! If you're going to act like this, you might as well run to the story and buy some angel food cake and paper dolls you wussy girl! Come on, you need to learn how you used to be"
"I guess...you're right" Pegasus sighed. "I guess losing my Millennium Eye exactly hasn't helped...after it was stolen from me"
"Stolen?" Mai asked. Pegasus nodded. "Well, I guess that explains the eye patch. But who would steal your Eye, and why in the world would they want to?"
"It was...Bakura. Bakura Ryou"
"Bakura? But...he seems hardly capable of even killing a fly. Believe me, he freaked out and ran around screaming and begging for mercy when one flew on his sweater when we were on our way to your castle during the Duelist Kingdom Tournament" Mai recalled. "How could he steal your Eye?"
"I'm not quite sure...he had said that he had been using this Magic for thousands of years, which makes me thing that maybe it wasn't Bakura at all" Pegasus looked around. "So what now?"
"I'm guessing that you're heading to the finals too" Mai reached into her vest's pocket and took out five clear cards. "I have five Locator Cards now. If you'd like I can help you win some, too"
"No need" Pegasus replied. He took his three out of his pocket. "I have three of my own"
"How did you get any Locator Cards if you had none to start with?"
"I challenged someone with greater stakes than Locator Cards...my rarest cards of all, Toon World, Black Illusion Ritual and Relinquished" Pegasus replied. "It was too risky to bet them, but I had to do it"
"Well, then let's go find a duel" Mai said.
"You need a Locator Card too, don't you?" Pegasus asked.
"Yeah...and I'd like to duel with you too, if you don't mind" Mai looked away quickly as some colored formed in her face.
"Sure, I'd like to duel by your side, Mai" Pegasus replied kindly.
Mai's face turned even more red. "Well...what are we waiting for? Come on, let's go, and let's get to the finals!"
The two duelists walked off rather quickly, heading for whatever was to come. Although their reasons were different, both Pegasus and Mai had more in common than they thought...and soon they might discover it. But, maybe someone else was in the way...
Far away, Marik chuckled. He stood by his motorcycle, holding his Millennium Rod. "Pegasus escapes and is already planning to take me down? Ha, that is laughable. He thinks he has the power to stand up to The Winged Dragon of Ra, the God card he created and put into my hands? That is pathetic. His cartoon monsters will fall to the supreme power of Ra, and to the power of the Millennium Rod! I will show Pegasus no mercy, and he shall fall, as will Yami, and Seto Kaiba! Ahahahahaha!" And so his cheesy Skeletor laugh echoed into the night. But one thing was certain, Marik had things planned for Pegasus, just as Pegasus was planning to take on him.