"The next duel will be Kiana and Bandit Keith," announced the guard.
"Huh, What?" started Bandit Keith, but he quickly took his place. Kiana took her place on the platform opposite of him and the duel began. Bandit Keith went first.
"Go, Kiana! Cream him!" shouted Joe.
"You can beat him!" added Tea.
"Shut-up!" yelled Bandit Keith.
"Why don't you like him? I mean, besides the obvious," asked Tempest.
"He locked us in an underground tunnel to die," said Tristan.
"I only wish I was the one to finish him," said Joe.
"I play Crawling Dragon in attack mode," announced Bandit Keith, which began the duel. Its stats were 1600 and 1400 The Crawling Dragon #2 was completely black and walked upright. Its belly was pale white, which completely contrasted the rest of the monster.
"Then I play a card face down and a magic card," said Kiana.
"Then I will play the Karbonala Warrior in attack mode and use it to destroy your defending card," said Bandit Keith. The Karbonala Warrior was a human monster with a long sword and violet armor. Its attack was 1500 and defense was 1200.
"But I played the Acid Trap Hole last turn and that sends your warrior to the graveyard," she said.
"Then I will destroy it with my Crawling Dragon," said Bandit Keith. He didn't seem the least fazed by losing a monster. The Crawling Dragon stepped forward and brought its tail down, on top of the glowing square which represented Kiana's defending card. There was a flash of light and Kiana's card was revealed to be the Aqua Madoor. It had a white mask and a blue and white jumpsuit on. Its spiky teal hair was erratic. Its attack was 1200 and its defense was 2000, which means it wasn't destroyed by the dragon.
"And for my next turn I play Dream Clown in attack mode and I will use Shadow Spell to lower the stats of your Crawling Dragon," announce Kiana. The Dream Clown was a midget who rolled around on a ball that was as big as itself. It had a bright polkadot outfit on and its stats were 1200 and 900. "Dream Clown, attack the Crawling Dragon." The monsters collided and Bandit Keith came out 100 life points less.
"Then I will play Misairuzane in attack mode," countered Bandit Keith. The Misairuzane was a fish type. It resembled a dolphin except it had an extra dorsal fin and was pale green. Strapped to its stomach was a small water cannon. Its attack was 1400 and its defense was 1600. "Destroy the Dream Clown!" A large blast of water came from the cannon and the clown was swept away. Kiana was down to 1800 life points.
"Mysterious Puppeteer in attack mode," declared Kiana. "And I will power it up with Bright Castle." The Mysterious Puppeteer was dressed in a scarlet robe which eliminated any feature it had. It held a tiny marionette by the strings. Its stats were 1000 and 1500, but because of the magic card they were now 1500 and 2000.
"Is anyone else cramping up?" she asked all of a sudden.
"What?!" demanded Bandit Keith.
"I just need to stretch," she said. She put her right leg on the table and pulled her face to her knee. Then she bent that leg behind her until she could touch the back of her head with the bottom of her foot.
"She's a contortionist!" exclaimed Joe.
"Just duel!" demanded Bandit Keith. Everyone who saw her performance was amazed. Well, everyone who could see was amazed.
"Fine, puppeteer, destroy his monster," she said. Kiana then began to do the same stretches with her left leg. Bandit Keith and her had equal life points at 1800.
"This is exactly what I want," muttered Bandit Keith. Tempest, with her acute hearing and close seat, was probably the only one who heard him though. "I play Call of the Haunted. It brings back any monsters in my graveyard as zombie types." Kiana looked surprised as she brought her left leg up to the side of her face.
Down below on the holo-field the Karbonala Warrior, Misairuzane, and Crawling Dragon #2 came out of the ground as half-dead. But they were now Zombie Warrior at 1200 and 900, Corroding Shark with 1100 and 700, and Dragon Zombie at 1600 and 0.
"Dragon Zombie attack the Mysterious Puppeteer," ordered Bandit Keith. The zombie breathed a putrid breath and Kiana's monster was no more. She was down 100 more life points, but she still had her Aqua Madoor in defense mode.
"Then I will play Tao the Chanter in attack mode," she announced. Tao was wrapped in an orange cloth robe which disguised its figure. Its stats were 1200 and 900. "Tao, attack the Corroding Shark!" The shark reeled in pain, then began to disintegrate. But then it stopped and reformed.
"What happened?" asked several people.
"Call of the Haunted is still in effect," explained, well gloated Bandit Keith. "As long as you try to destroy one of my monsters they will keep coming back. And when they come back they will be stronger than ever before." The Corroding Shark's stats were now 1200 and 800.
"And for my turn I play Pumking the King of the Ghost in attack mode," declared Bandit Keith as the final pieces of his strategy came into place. "With it I can raise the power of all my zombies each turn." The Pumking appeared on the field behind his other monsters. It was an extremely large jack-o-lantern with multiple vines snaking around it. It connected these vines to the back and neck of the other zombies. Now their stats were; Corroding Shark 1350 and 800, Zombie Warrior 1450 and 900, Dragon Zombie at 1850 and 0, and Pumking the King of the Ghosts at 1800 and 2000.
"Dragon Zombie attack her chanter!" ordered Bandit Keith and Kiana was down to 1150 life points.
"I play Spirit of the Harp in defense mode," announced Kiana. Her next monster appeared an the field with the stats of 800 and 2000. Kiana had a decent defense between her two cards, but the next turn Bandit Keith's monsters would get another power bonus.
"I play the Temple of Skulls," declared Bandit Keith, "Normally this card would act like a normal monster card, but by combining it with my Zombie Warrior I can further raise its strength." Now his monsters were; Corroding Shark 1500 and 800, Zombie Warrior 1950 and 1150, and Dragon Zombie 2100 and 0. The Pumking stats remained the same because it could not power itself up.
"Dragon Zombie attack the Spirit of the Harp!" ordered Bandit Keith. In a flash of light the fairy type was gone. "And next turn all my forces will be powerful enough to destroy your pathetic defense."
"I play Master and Expert in defense mode and this," said Kiana as she put her monster and magic card on the field. She then pulled her left arm behind her until it was perfectly straight, but still able to touch her right ear. Her new monster had appeared on the field. It was actually to separate monsters, like the Gemini Elf card. There was an oversized shaggy canine like creature and a lizard with human attributes. Its attack was 1200 and its defense was 1000.
"Then I play the Great Mammoth of Goldfire," declared Bandit Keith. A large skeleton of an elephant appeared with his other monsters. The bones were yellow from age. Its stats were normally 2200 and 1800, but because of the Pumking its attack was raised to 2450. The attacks of his other zombies had been raised. The Corroding Shark had 1750, the Zombie Warrior was at 2200, and the Dragon Zombie was at 2350.
"Great Mammoth attack the Aqua Madoor," declared Bandit Keith.
"Negate Attack activate," said Kiana as her magic card was revealed. The attack did nothing.
"Dragon Zombie attack the Aqua Madoor, then," said Bandit Keith and the magician fell. "And Zombie Warrior attack the Master and Expert." That monster disappeared with a yelp and a flash of light.
"It is over, you have lost," said Bandit Keith, "Why don't you give up now and save face?"
"You can beat him Kiana, it ain't over yet," Tempest said. The other spectators agreed with her.
"Me, lose," asked Kiana, "Whatever will I do? Oh, this seems so hopeless. I can't seem to beat him. What am I going to do?" Her voice kept getting more and more sarcastic. "All I have is a monster card and three magic cards." She placed them on the holo-field. "First I play the Musician King in attack mode." Her newest monster appeared on the field. This one could definitely be classified as human. It had spiky blonde hair and a red headband. It had black leather pants and no shirt. It held a bright red guitar. It looked like someone you might see at a rock concert. Its attack was 1750 and its defense was 1500.
"Then I equip him with Black Pendant. Destroy the Pumking," ordered Kiana. It was done and Bandit Keith was down to 1350 life points.
"After that I play De-Spell to remove your Call of the Haunting," said Kiana.
"Grrr....You still have to deal with my powerful monsters," growled Bandit Keith, not at all happy that she got rid of his magic card and none of his monster would be able to come back to life.
"Who said I have to deal with them?" asked Kiana as she bent her head down to her right knee while fully extending her left leg straight up. "My last magic card is Eternal Rest. It forces you to put all your zombies in the graveyard and keep them there."
"No!" cried Bandit Keith as the holo-field showed the ground opening up and returning all of his creatures to their graves.
"Your move," said Kiana.
"I play Wood Remains in defense mode," said Bandit Keith. It was a head, looking like a carving from a tree stump. It had moldy green hair with twigs in it. Its stats were 1000 and 900.
"I use Stop Defense which switches your monster to attack mode," said Kiana, "I also play this magic card face down. Musician King attack the Wood Remains." They clashed and the Wood Remains dissolved, clutching its ears in pain. Bandit Keith was now at 350 life points while Kiana had 1150.
Bandit Keith drew his next card and smiled, "I play the Lord of Zemia in attack mode and equip it with the Sword of Dark Destruction and Dark Energy." A demon-like creature appeared with blood red bat wings and night dark scaly body. Its long claws clutched a wicked black sword. Because of the power boosts its attack was 2300, 150 points higher than the Musician King. "Attack!"
"Not quite," said Kiana as she once again contorted her body. "I played Reinforcements. That increases the power of my Musician King by 500 for this turn. You lose."
"No!" cried Bandit Keith, but it was too late. His fiend disappeared in a blaze of light and his life points went down to 0.
Kiana did a back flip off of the platform. The guards had to escort Bandit Keith out. He was putting up a fight. At last the doors closed and his protested faded.
"We will be briefly postponing to duels for lunch," said a guard. The remaining duelists and eliminators were ushered once again into the party room with another buffet.
Joe was easily the pig of the day with Bandit Keith gone. He was pretty happy he was gone, everyone was. The food was good and Tempest and Martin were slipping extra into their backpacks. Yu-Gi even gave in and ate a little, probably mostly out of hunger. The conversation topics were mostly anxious talks about the next duels.
Meanwhile..........
"I was cheated! Robbery!" yelled Bandit Keith as the guard proceeded to drag him out of the castle.
"Quiet yacking," said the guard, "When you enter this tournament you signed a paper saying you would agree to the rules. And since you lost, you are deported. So quit acting like a baby!"
"I didn't sign any papers!" yelled Bandit Keith. He had cheated his way on the island and stolen his star chips. "Deport this!" With that Bandit Keith swung around and punched the guard hard in his stomach. The guard doubled over. Bandit Keith then brought his fists down on the back of the guard's neck, knocking him unconscious.
"Pegasus you are mine!" gritted Bandit Keith and he began to roam the castle, searching for his prey.
*Flashback*
Ii was a tournament a year ago. The finals had come down to Pegasus and Bandit Keith. Bandit Keith had unlocked a perfect strategy. He knew there was no way he could lose.
On the sidelines Seto Kaiba watched as Pegasus's guest of honor. Kaiba wasn't fooled by Pegasus's display. He knew the Duel Monsters creator had just been toying with Bandit Keith.
Just as Pegasus was about to play his last turn, or so Bandit Keith thought, Pegasus stopped and began to write on a piece of paper. Then he motioned for a young boy to come from the audience.
"What are you doing? Asking for help is illegal," demanded Bandit Keith.
"I just want to show that a child can beat you," said Pegasus as he sat the boy in his place.
"Thanks mister, but I have only been playing Duel Monsters for a week," said Sam, the boy.
"Just follow these directions and you will win," said Pegasus and he left, taking a seat next to Kaiba.
"I won't be psyched out so easy. I am still going to win this," thought Bandit Keith as he played his next card. "Beat this."
"Good card." Said Sam with a sniff, "But the note says that when you play that, I am supposed to play this in attack mode." He placed the card on the table top, because this was before the holo-fields. "I think I just took all your life points."
"There is no way you could have known what card I was going to play! Let me see that!" demanded Bandit Keith as he grabbed the note, "No! It is all here! What card I am going to play.....how to beat it...." Pegasus had walked over.
"Sam is the winner," he said as he lifted Sam's arm in the air.
*End Flashback*
"You completely humiliated me that day," thought Bandit Keith angrily, "And now I will return the favor."
In another room of the castle.......
"Mr.Pegasus," said Kemo, another of his guards, "Bandit Keith has escaped Crochet and is loose in the castle."
"I know that already," said Pegasus as he emptied his wine glass, "And I will deal with it personally. Keep an eye on Yu-Gi and the other duelists."
"Yes, Mr.Pegasus, sir," said the guard as he left. Pegasus also left, in search of the renegade.
Back with Bandit Keith.......
"I will make him pay ten times over for what he did to me that day," continued Bandit Keith, his anger rising.
"You broke the rules," said a voice from behind him. Bandit Keith turned around.
"You!" he yelled. Pegasus was right behind him.
"You come to my island, try to cheat in my tournament, and break my rules....." accused Pegasus.
"Duel me!" demanded Bandit Keith, "I will crush you!"
"No, I don't think so," replied Pegasus coolly, "By participating in my tournament, even if you didn't sign the contract, you still are bound by my rules. And you have broken them. Now you must pay the consequences!" Things were going to get worse for Bandit Keith before they got better.....much worse.
Pegasus pulled back his hair, revealing his Millennial Eye. A bright light burst from it whited out the hall. Bandit Keith let out a scream of surprise, then fell silent. When the light was gone, Bandit Keith shared the same spaced out expression as the Kaiba brothers. Not that that was a noticeable difference from his usual uncomprehending gaze.
"If you would have read those papers you would have known that I cannot be held responsible for lost or stolen property, even if I did take it," muttered Pegasus to himself as he pocked a card with Bandit Keith's picture on it.
"Kemo, I have an errand for you," said Pegasus over the intercom.
"What is it Mr.Pegasus?" asked Kemo through the small walkie-talkie.
"Please remove the hollow shell from the third floor hallway of the west wing and put it to work drying the dishes," said Pegasus. He returned to his quiet dining room and continued to make plans for the other duelists, especially Yu-Gi Motuo.
Back in the party room.....
Everyone was nervously anticipating their next duel. Then for no reason, Yu-Gi shuddered as he felt Pegasus use his Millennial Eye, even though Yu- Gi didn't know why he suddenly felt a chill.
"The storm is brewing again," thought Tempest as she felt the powers surging around her, "And this one will be worse than the last."
"Huh, What?" started Bandit Keith, but he quickly took his place. Kiana took her place on the platform opposite of him and the duel began. Bandit Keith went first.
"Go, Kiana! Cream him!" shouted Joe.
"You can beat him!" added Tea.
"Shut-up!" yelled Bandit Keith.
"Why don't you like him? I mean, besides the obvious," asked Tempest.
"He locked us in an underground tunnel to die," said Tristan.
"I only wish I was the one to finish him," said Joe.
"I play Crawling Dragon in attack mode," announced Bandit Keith, which began the duel. Its stats were 1600 and 1400 The Crawling Dragon #2 was completely black and walked upright. Its belly was pale white, which completely contrasted the rest of the monster.
"Then I play a card face down and a magic card," said Kiana.
"Then I will play the Karbonala Warrior in attack mode and use it to destroy your defending card," said Bandit Keith. The Karbonala Warrior was a human monster with a long sword and violet armor. Its attack was 1500 and defense was 1200.
"But I played the Acid Trap Hole last turn and that sends your warrior to the graveyard," she said.
"Then I will destroy it with my Crawling Dragon," said Bandit Keith. He didn't seem the least fazed by losing a monster. The Crawling Dragon stepped forward and brought its tail down, on top of the glowing square which represented Kiana's defending card. There was a flash of light and Kiana's card was revealed to be the Aqua Madoor. It had a white mask and a blue and white jumpsuit on. Its spiky teal hair was erratic. Its attack was 1200 and its defense was 2000, which means it wasn't destroyed by the dragon.
"And for my next turn I play Dream Clown in attack mode and I will use Shadow Spell to lower the stats of your Crawling Dragon," announce Kiana. The Dream Clown was a midget who rolled around on a ball that was as big as itself. It had a bright polkadot outfit on and its stats were 1200 and 900. "Dream Clown, attack the Crawling Dragon." The monsters collided and Bandit Keith came out 100 life points less.
"Then I will play Misairuzane in attack mode," countered Bandit Keith. The Misairuzane was a fish type. It resembled a dolphin except it had an extra dorsal fin and was pale green. Strapped to its stomach was a small water cannon. Its attack was 1400 and its defense was 1600. "Destroy the Dream Clown!" A large blast of water came from the cannon and the clown was swept away. Kiana was down to 1800 life points.
"Mysterious Puppeteer in attack mode," declared Kiana. "And I will power it up with Bright Castle." The Mysterious Puppeteer was dressed in a scarlet robe which eliminated any feature it had. It held a tiny marionette by the strings. Its stats were 1000 and 1500, but because of the magic card they were now 1500 and 2000.
"Is anyone else cramping up?" she asked all of a sudden.
"What?!" demanded Bandit Keith.
"I just need to stretch," she said. She put her right leg on the table and pulled her face to her knee. Then she bent that leg behind her until she could touch the back of her head with the bottom of her foot.
"She's a contortionist!" exclaimed Joe.
"Just duel!" demanded Bandit Keith. Everyone who saw her performance was amazed. Well, everyone who could see was amazed.
"Fine, puppeteer, destroy his monster," she said. Kiana then began to do the same stretches with her left leg. Bandit Keith and her had equal life points at 1800.
"This is exactly what I want," muttered Bandit Keith. Tempest, with her acute hearing and close seat, was probably the only one who heard him though. "I play Call of the Haunted. It brings back any monsters in my graveyard as zombie types." Kiana looked surprised as she brought her left leg up to the side of her face.
Down below on the holo-field the Karbonala Warrior, Misairuzane, and Crawling Dragon #2 came out of the ground as half-dead. But they were now Zombie Warrior at 1200 and 900, Corroding Shark with 1100 and 700, and Dragon Zombie at 1600 and 0.
"Dragon Zombie attack the Mysterious Puppeteer," ordered Bandit Keith. The zombie breathed a putrid breath and Kiana's monster was no more. She was down 100 more life points, but she still had her Aqua Madoor in defense mode.
"Then I will play Tao the Chanter in attack mode," she announced. Tao was wrapped in an orange cloth robe which disguised its figure. Its stats were 1200 and 900. "Tao, attack the Corroding Shark!" The shark reeled in pain, then began to disintegrate. But then it stopped and reformed.
"What happened?" asked several people.
"Call of the Haunted is still in effect," explained, well gloated Bandit Keith. "As long as you try to destroy one of my monsters they will keep coming back. And when they come back they will be stronger than ever before." The Corroding Shark's stats were now 1200 and 800.
"And for my turn I play Pumking the King of the Ghost in attack mode," declared Bandit Keith as the final pieces of his strategy came into place. "With it I can raise the power of all my zombies each turn." The Pumking appeared on the field behind his other monsters. It was an extremely large jack-o-lantern with multiple vines snaking around it. It connected these vines to the back and neck of the other zombies. Now their stats were; Corroding Shark 1350 and 800, Zombie Warrior 1450 and 900, Dragon Zombie at 1850 and 0, and Pumking the King of the Ghosts at 1800 and 2000.
"Dragon Zombie attack her chanter!" ordered Bandit Keith and Kiana was down to 1150 life points.
"I play Spirit of the Harp in defense mode," announced Kiana. Her next monster appeared an the field with the stats of 800 and 2000. Kiana had a decent defense between her two cards, but the next turn Bandit Keith's monsters would get another power bonus.
"I play the Temple of Skulls," declared Bandit Keith, "Normally this card would act like a normal monster card, but by combining it with my Zombie Warrior I can further raise its strength." Now his monsters were; Corroding Shark 1500 and 800, Zombie Warrior 1950 and 1150, and Dragon Zombie 2100 and 0. The Pumking stats remained the same because it could not power itself up.
"Dragon Zombie attack the Spirit of the Harp!" ordered Bandit Keith. In a flash of light the fairy type was gone. "And next turn all my forces will be powerful enough to destroy your pathetic defense."
"I play Master and Expert in defense mode and this," said Kiana as she put her monster and magic card on the field. She then pulled her left arm behind her until it was perfectly straight, but still able to touch her right ear. Her new monster had appeared on the field. It was actually to separate monsters, like the Gemini Elf card. There was an oversized shaggy canine like creature and a lizard with human attributes. Its attack was 1200 and its defense was 1000.
"Then I play the Great Mammoth of Goldfire," declared Bandit Keith. A large skeleton of an elephant appeared with his other monsters. The bones were yellow from age. Its stats were normally 2200 and 1800, but because of the Pumking its attack was raised to 2450. The attacks of his other zombies had been raised. The Corroding Shark had 1750, the Zombie Warrior was at 2200, and the Dragon Zombie was at 2350.
"Great Mammoth attack the Aqua Madoor," declared Bandit Keith.
"Negate Attack activate," said Kiana as her magic card was revealed. The attack did nothing.
"Dragon Zombie attack the Aqua Madoor, then," said Bandit Keith and the magician fell. "And Zombie Warrior attack the Master and Expert." That monster disappeared with a yelp and a flash of light.
"It is over, you have lost," said Bandit Keith, "Why don't you give up now and save face?"
"You can beat him Kiana, it ain't over yet," Tempest said. The other spectators agreed with her.
"Me, lose," asked Kiana, "Whatever will I do? Oh, this seems so hopeless. I can't seem to beat him. What am I going to do?" Her voice kept getting more and more sarcastic. "All I have is a monster card and three magic cards." She placed them on the holo-field. "First I play the Musician King in attack mode." Her newest monster appeared on the field. This one could definitely be classified as human. It had spiky blonde hair and a red headband. It had black leather pants and no shirt. It held a bright red guitar. It looked like someone you might see at a rock concert. Its attack was 1750 and its defense was 1500.
"Then I equip him with Black Pendant. Destroy the Pumking," ordered Kiana. It was done and Bandit Keith was down to 1350 life points.
"After that I play De-Spell to remove your Call of the Haunting," said Kiana.
"Grrr....You still have to deal with my powerful monsters," growled Bandit Keith, not at all happy that she got rid of his magic card and none of his monster would be able to come back to life.
"Who said I have to deal with them?" asked Kiana as she bent her head down to her right knee while fully extending her left leg straight up. "My last magic card is Eternal Rest. It forces you to put all your zombies in the graveyard and keep them there."
"No!" cried Bandit Keith as the holo-field showed the ground opening up and returning all of his creatures to their graves.
"Your move," said Kiana.
"I play Wood Remains in defense mode," said Bandit Keith. It was a head, looking like a carving from a tree stump. It had moldy green hair with twigs in it. Its stats were 1000 and 900.
"I use Stop Defense which switches your monster to attack mode," said Kiana, "I also play this magic card face down. Musician King attack the Wood Remains." They clashed and the Wood Remains dissolved, clutching its ears in pain. Bandit Keith was now at 350 life points while Kiana had 1150.
Bandit Keith drew his next card and smiled, "I play the Lord of Zemia in attack mode and equip it with the Sword of Dark Destruction and Dark Energy." A demon-like creature appeared with blood red bat wings and night dark scaly body. Its long claws clutched a wicked black sword. Because of the power boosts its attack was 2300, 150 points higher than the Musician King. "Attack!"
"Not quite," said Kiana as she once again contorted her body. "I played Reinforcements. That increases the power of my Musician King by 500 for this turn. You lose."
"No!" cried Bandit Keith, but it was too late. His fiend disappeared in a blaze of light and his life points went down to 0.
Kiana did a back flip off of the platform. The guards had to escort Bandit Keith out. He was putting up a fight. At last the doors closed and his protested faded.
"We will be briefly postponing to duels for lunch," said a guard. The remaining duelists and eliminators were ushered once again into the party room with another buffet.
Joe was easily the pig of the day with Bandit Keith gone. He was pretty happy he was gone, everyone was. The food was good and Tempest and Martin were slipping extra into their backpacks. Yu-Gi even gave in and ate a little, probably mostly out of hunger. The conversation topics were mostly anxious talks about the next duels.
Meanwhile..........
"I was cheated! Robbery!" yelled Bandit Keith as the guard proceeded to drag him out of the castle.
"Quiet yacking," said the guard, "When you enter this tournament you signed a paper saying you would agree to the rules. And since you lost, you are deported. So quit acting like a baby!"
"I didn't sign any papers!" yelled Bandit Keith. He had cheated his way on the island and stolen his star chips. "Deport this!" With that Bandit Keith swung around and punched the guard hard in his stomach. The guard doubled over. Bandit Keith then brought his fists down on the back of the guard's neck, knocking him unconscious.
"Pegasus you are mine!" gritted Bandit Keith and he began to roam the castle, searching for his prey.
*Flashback*
Ii was a tournament a year ago. The finals had come down to Pegasus and Bandit Keith. Bandit Keith had unlocked a perfect strategy. He knew there was no way he could lose.
On the sidelines Seto Kaiba watched as Pegasus's guest of honor. Kaiba wasn't fooled by Pegasus's display. He knew the Duel Monsters creator had just been toying with Bandit Keith.
Just as Pegasus was about to play his last turn, or so Bandit Keith thought, Pegasus stopped and began to write on a piece of paper. Then he motioned for a young boy to come from the audience.
"What are you doing? Asking for help is illegal," demanded Bandit Keith.
"I just want to show that a child can beat you," said Pegasus as he sat the boy in his place.
"Thanks mister, but I have only been playing Duel Monsters for a week," said Sam, the boy.
"Just follow these directions and you will win," said Pegasus and he left, taking a seat next to Kaiba.
"I won't be psyched out so easy. I am still going to win this," thought Bandit Keith as he played his next card. "Beat this."
"Good card." Said Sam with a sniff, "But the note says that when you play that, I am supposed to play this in attack mode." He placed the card on the table top, because this was before the holo-fields. "I think I just took all your life points."
"There is no way you could have known what card I was going to play! Let me see that!" demanded Bandit Keith as he grabbed the note, "No! It is all here! What card I am going to play.....how to beat it...." Pegasus had walked over.
"Sam is the winner," he said as he lifted Sam's arm in the air.
*End Flashback*
"You completely humiliated me that day," thought Bandit Keith angrily, "And now I will return the favor."
In another room of the castle.......
"Mr.Pegasus," said Kemo, another of his guards, "Bandit Keith has escaped Crochet and is loose in the castle."
"I know that already," said Pegasus as he emptied his wine glass, "And I will deal with it personally. Keep an eye on Yu-Gi and the other duelists."
"Yes, Mr.Pegasus, sir," said the guard as he left. Pegasus also left, in search of the renegade.
Back with Bandit Keith.......
"I will make him pay ten times over for what he did to me that day," continued Bandit Keith, his anger rising.
"You broke the rules," said a voice from behind him. Bandit Keith turned around.
"You!" he yelled. Pegasus was right behind him.
"You come to my island, try to cheat in my tournament, and break my rules....." accused Pegasus.
"Duel me!" demanded Bandit Keith, "I will crush you!"
"No, I don't think so," replied Pegasus coolly, "By participating in my tournament, even if you didn't sign the contract, you still are bound by my rules. And you have broken them. Now you must pay the consequences!" Things were going to get worse for Bandit Keith before they got better.....much worse.
Pegasus pulled back his hair, revealing his Millennial Eye. A bright light burst from it whited out the hall. Bandit Keith let out a scream of surprise, then fell silent. When the light was gone, Bandit Keith shared the same spaced out expression as the Kaiba brothers. Not that that was a noticeable difference from his usual uncomprehending gaze.
"If you would have read those papers you would have known that I cannot be held responsible for lost or stolen property, even if I did take it," muttered Pegasus to himself as he pocked a card with Bandit Keith's picture on it.
"Kemo, I have an errand for you," said Pegasus over the intercom.
"What is it Mr.Pegasus?" asked Kemo through the small walkie-talkie.
"Please remove the hollow shell from the third floor hallway of the west wing and put it to work drying the dishes," said Pegasus. He returned to his quiet dining room and continued to make plans for the other duelists, especially Yu-Gi Motuo.
Back in the party room.....
Everyone was nervously anticipating their next duel. Then for no reason, Yu-Gi shuddered as he felt Pegasus use his Millennial Eye, even though Yu- Gi didn't know why he suddenly felt a chill.
"The storm is brewing again," thought Tempest as she felt the powers surging around her, "And this one will be worse than the last."