Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! so please don't sue me. I do however own the characters Celestia/Danielle, Kozue.
_________________________________________________________________Chapter 14: Tournaments
The streets were crowded with duelists, all discussing the same thing, who could possibly be hosting the tournament. Danielle looked up at the large screen TV that sat in the middle of the dinning hall they had all been told to go to, and then thumbed through her deck. Finding her favorite two cards Mystical Elf, and the Magicain of Black Chaos. Her favorites for unknown reasons, she didn't choose her cards for power, or for looks, or for power. "Danielle!" Yugi's voice came from behind her, the teen with tri colored hair, ran up to her, dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a black shirt. "Hey Yugi!" She called back to him waving her hand. "So you got invited to this tournament too?" She smiled and nodded, "And Dad too." She added, as if on cue Pegasus walked up to the two, wearing the familiar black suit he wore in his first duel with Yugi. "Hi, Pegasus." Yugi said, noticeing that Pegasus seemed to lack something. That strange cocky air he had about him when it came to dueling. "Wow, I guess I'll have some competition with you in this." He said with a smile. Pegasus however wasn't laughing, or smiling. "For your information Yugi-boy, I doubt I'll even make it past the first round without the eye." he said and Yugi felt something he never thought he'd feel for the older duelist, pity, the air around the grey haired man reeked of low self esteem. "Hey, I'm sure you can do it, I mean your a great duelist, even without the millenium eye I'm sure of it, you've got great cards and great stratigies." He smiled slgithly. "Yugi!" Mokuba's voice came from behind them as the black haired Kaiba waved cheerfully and ran up to them, dragging Seto behind. Mokuba stopped short of where Pegasus stood and shot a glare at the older man, this of course caused Pegasus to develope an even more dpressed look on his face. Danielle looked from Mokuba to him as if saying to the boy 'Please forgive him, or at least try to be nice.' without actually saying it. "So you two got invetations to huh?" Yugi asked and both the Kaibas nodded. "Any clue as to who's hosting this?" They both shook their heads, "Not the slightest clue, what about you two?" Seto asked as he looked over to Danielle and Pegasus. Both shook their heads, as if on cue the lights dimmed and the large screen TV turned on catching all of the duelists attention. "Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, skilled Duelists, The Crawfords." The figure stopped for a moment, a robin's egg blue colored head of hair, they eyes shadowed over. "The Kaiba Brothers, Yugi Motou, welcome to my tournament. This however is no ordinary tournament, you pick your prize, however, if you manage to get to the final duel against myself, you put your very life at stake, by playing, with these duel disks, in the final duel, the saftey will be turned off, meaning, when your monsters suffer you suffer." He smirked slightly at the reaction from most of the duelists. "I look forward to see you, Mr. Crawford, and to see your dueling stratigies, as I asume are the other duelists who have the honnor of dueling the famed creator of duel monsters." With this the screen shut off and the lights returned to normal. "This crazy!" Several of the duelists remarked.
"We risk our lives if we make it that far, this guy is a nut!" remarked Mokuba. "Agreed." Pegasus remarked with a frown. "I wonder who he is?" Danielle looked curiously at Seto. "I think he kinda looked like you Seto, if not for the hair color diffrence."
"I don't think so, the only person like that is suposed to be dead." He remarked and turned on his heel. "Come on Mokuba." He turned and looked over his shoulder. "I'm sorry if I offended you with that Seto, really, why don't you stay a while." But of course Seto was far from listening. "Why do you beg like that?" came a voice from behind her, she turned to find herself face to face with a tall thin girl dressed in shirt resembling a soldiers shirt from the times of the wars with Great Britian and America. It was black with gold buttons, and a pair of white slacks. Deep Blue hair that curled slightly at the edges and was short. Green eyes, highlighted her face which wore an expression that displayed both cockieness and disgust. "You make yourself look like a disgrace to women." She remarked with a frown. "Well your not exactly the prime example either!" remarked Yugi in defense, Pegasus nodding in agreement. "Ha! What can't you even stand up for yourself, got to let someone half your size stand up for you? Your pathetic." she laughed, "No, I'm not going to waste my time on someone as pathetic as you." She answered, the girls expression changed automatically and Danielle smiled to herself. "My name is Kouze Kaoru, yours is?" Danielle smiled slightly "Danielle Crawford." She answered "Perfect, and now I challenge you to duel!" Kouze smirked. "Agreed."
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Before anyone knew if the floor was cleared and Danielle and the girl Kouze was on the other side, both strapping the duel disks to their arms. "First one to Zero loses, and leaves the tournament, agreed?" Kouze called, Danielle nodded. On the sidelines Pegasus and Yugi watched with intrest. "Do you think Danielle even has a chance of winning?" Yugi turned to the older silver haired man. "Hopefully, but this IS her first duel so...I don't know."
"Ready?" Danielle nodded "It's time to duel!" Both yelled placing their decks in the reader and drawing cards. Danielle eyed her hand, A Mystical Elf, Gemini Elf, a ritual card and two weaker cards needed for the ritual, Princess of Tsuguri, and the Queens Double. 'Perfect.' She thought as Kouze drew her own cards. "I call out the Celtic Gaurdian in Attack Mode!"(1400/1300) She yelled as the familiar blonde haired elf appeared on the field. "Alright, I have a suprise for you Kouze, I play this ritual card 'Cosmo Queens Prayer'! In order to call her I sacrifice, my Queens double, and Princess of Tsuguri! Cosmo Queen come forth and attack!" With this a beautiful sorceress appeared dressed in red with a large head dress appeared. (2900/2000) With a flash of light the Celtic Gaurdian was nothing more than ashes. "No..." The shock slowly sank in on the girl as he life points went down to 500. "No matter, I'll beat you with this!" She yelled as she placed a card down "I play Empress Judge in attack mode!"(2100/500) She yelled out as the red haired empress appeared on the field. "I think you should check your attack points again! But of well, to increase the damage done, I'll add this power up, Electro Whip! Which adds 500 to Cosmo Queens Attack points!" (3400/2500) "Destroy the Empress judge!" This eleminated the girls life points. "WOW!" Proclaimed one of the spectators "She beat her in like three turns!" He finished "I'd expect no less from the daughter of the duel Monsters creator." Came a voice from behind her, a tall slim black haired woman, dressed in black with a red top appeared from the clouds. "Bravo, you have some excellent Skills there Miss Crawford, just like your father, Isn't that right, brother?" Everyone's eyes widened in shock as they turned to Pegasus.
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Plot twist! Pegasus not only has a daughter but siblings! Oh boy.