PM to all readers: I did the best I could about the difference about how
much yin is worth to American money, but I'm going to keep it the way it is
CHAPTER TWO: DUEL CITY REGISTRATION
Seto Kaiba sits in his office, working on his program for his next holographic project on a different game this time. Even though he still have interests in Duel Monsters, he wants to try something different.
Kaiba then gets a phone ring, and answers it, "Kaiba. What? Who was responsible? Take care of it? A meeting? Fine, I'll be there in a few."
Kaiba hangs up the phone, closes down his computer and heads towards the meeting hall. Outside of his office, his little brother Mocuba greets him
"Hey Seto, I'm back."
"Not now Mocuba, there's been some trouble with the corporations accountant, I'll hear about your trip later."
"Okay, oh and Seto, if we needed any money, there's a tournament coming up this weakened. Registrations tomorrow, I heard it was based on your tournament last year, except you wage star chips instead of rarest card in your deck"
"Not right now Mocuba."
Kaiba isn't interested in any type of tournament right now, all he wants to do is take care of the problem, and the board has already fired the accountant for his laziness
Kaiba walks into the hall, that isn't far from his office. Mocuba followed him to there, but then turns around and walks to his room
"What happened?" Kaiba asks
"Tseng messed up," begins one of the members of the board, more loyal then the last board a year ago (since they tried to removed both the Kaiba brothers twice). "He placed all of our money into a separate account, his exact words were, 'this'll save our companies money, when we loose one account, we still have the other.' But then he decided to wager them in stocks, confident about our companies reputation."
"So what happened?" Kaiba asks
"Tseng stolen some of our money for his own personal needs, and pushed the wrong buttons to cover his rear, the stock went broke, we lost all of our money."
Kaiba becomes shocked, "what? Do we even have any left?"
"No, I'm afraid not. He claims we could get more money this way, but he claimed wrong. He's already on his way to jail as we speak. The only money that we do have left is in your fathers account."
"Adopted father. And last time I checked, it'll support this company, but not for long. Is there anything we could do?"
"Fundraiser is the only thing we could come up with," said a different board member
"Fundraiser? This isn't the school you know, this is business, we need a better plan," Kaiba is upset, he wants to meet Tseng the accountant and beat him down
"Wait, I think I have an idea," Kaiba went
Mocuba unpacks his things from his trip to London, all kinds of neat things to tell somebody, but his brother doesn't want to listen to it right now.
Mocuba thinks to himself, I wonder what kind of problems the company is having.
"Mocuba?" Kaiba walks into Mocubas personal room
"Seto?" Mocuba is surprised, he didn't expect to see Seto for hours
"The tournament you spoke of, what's the prize money?"
"Um, the champion gets one million yin, and the runner-up gets half of that"
"Good, register us both to the tournament tomorrow, we need that money"
"Come on Yug, just use that Millennium Necklace that you've gotten from that crazy lady and use it to figure out who nabbed my sister." Joey beggs
"I.I'll try, but I don't think it'll work that way." Yugi runs into his room, grabbing his millennium necklace that he now owns from Ishitzu and walks back
Joey doesn't have the patients, "come on Yug"
Yugi then went into a dead sprint to the couch, scared of what Joey would do if he couldn't find her
"Alright, I haven't fully mastered this item yet, but I'll try."
Everyone sits and waits while Yugi concentrates. The necklace has the powers to see into the past, and even the possible future
Yugi concentrates all on Serenity in the past, it was two-hours before Joey made it home, Serenity has just arrived in Joey's apartment. She let herself in, and she is alone. Serenity closes the door behind her, but didn't shut all the way. Then a shadowy humanoid shaped figure walks in. Just as Serenity saw the hand, she is grabbed and dragged out of the apartment. The figure returns to the apartment, and left his note on the table where Joey found it.
When Serenity saw the hand, Yugi noticed that the same shadowy hand, took form into a human hand. Yugi guesses that the reason why the figure is shadowy, is because Serenity couldn't see who it was
"She was taken by someone while we were in school," Yugi went. "Serenity accidentally left the door open, and that's how he got in. She didn't see the guy, so I couldn't see him"
"He's going to meet Joey in the tournament, just for payback that Joey did to him," Tristan begins to think. "I wonder if its Bandit Keith, his life was ruined twice. By Pegasus by humiliating him with some rookie kid, and then by Joey an Amateur who suppose to don't stand a chance, even after Bandit Keith was cheating that time"
"Yeah but, how could he even knows where Joey live?" Tea went
"It could've been someone in the past that I've fought," Joey cracks his knuckles
"That could be anyone," Tristan said, knowing that Joey had gotten into a lot of fights
"Well, lets gets some rest and go register early tomorrow
The next morning, Yugi and his friends got up early and headed towards the registration office
When Yugi and others entered, they saw someone they haven't seen in a long time, "Mocuba?"
"Huh? Yugi." Mocuba is glad to see Yugi, and who wouldn't, he saved his soul and as well as his brother from Pegasus, and even helped saved his brother in the game that Kaiba designed.
"You competing too?" Joey asks
"Yeah, both me and my brother."
"Seto is competing too?" Tea is surprised
"Oh I hope he wont take us out first," Tristan went, almost into tears
"Don't worry, we've talked about it and he said we wont bother with any of you until the Semi-Quarterfinals"
"Semi-Quarterfinals, what's that?" Yugi asks
"That man will explain everything."
Everyone walks up to the register man
"Hello, are you all competing?"
"Of course we're all competing," Joey said sarcastically
"Great, the more the merrier. Each of you will get the state of the art dueling system that'll record everything, as well as a newly designed gauntlet, scouter, and two starting starchips."
The register man turns over to the gear laying neatly on the counter
"The small device there goes one of your ears. The glass has a built in device to show all the data of your monsters as well as your opponents in play, as well as all of your trap and magic cards faced down in play and which buttons to activate them, which cards you have in your hand when you received them by a effect, and as well shows both you and your opponents life points."
"Looks like the Power Reader on DBZ in Saiyan and Frieza sagas," Tristan observed.
"Yes well...that's where it's based on. Next we have the duel system. This system is more advance, as well as the light weight system then Kaiba Corps. previous system, and not to mention more balanced. You insert your dueling deck in the left slot, and just play the game, make sure you push all the right buttons before playing the card, the manual will explain. Then place the card on the right side, on the holographical reader. The slot underneath it is where you insert your cards after playing them."
"Well that's pretty neat," Tea went
"Finally, the next system here are the projectors, also light weight, both duelist must carry no more and no less them two of these. Each of these projectors must be no further then twenty-five feet apart, because each slot is five-feet width and length. The extra five feet between both sides is where the battles is simulated. On these projectors are lights. Yellow means they're too close, green means they're within range, and red means they're too far apart. Believe me, the closer and more even the projectors, the more better the holographic images will be."
"Ow, too much stuff to remember," Joey went.
"And finally you have your dueling gauntlet, each of you will carry one of these. They each come with two starting star chips, and you need at least fifteen to get into the Semi-Quarterfinals."
"Did he say fifteen?" Yugi is surprised.
"That's right, fifteen. Both you and your opponents must wager the current star chips you have. But the Duel City is a metronome size city, that means you can rent apartments, buy food, cards, or even ride in taxis and subway systems."
"Did he just say metronome size city?" Tea worriedly asks. "That's huge."
"But, these items can't be purchased by any type of currency."
"Then how can we buy food if we can't even buy them with money?"
"By buying them with your star chips."
"What?" Tristan went
"That'll make things more interesting, wouldn't you say Yugi?" That voice sounded awfully familiar.
"Don't tell me who that is that I think it is," Tea went
Everyone turns around, seeing Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor standing by the door
"Long time no see Yugi, I plan to have a rematch with you in the tournament"
"I'm looking forward to it," Yugi acted more courageous, remembering what Weevil did to his Exodia cards.
"If you all listen, then I'll explain about the house rules," continues the register man Everyone turns their attention back to the guy, except for Weevil who his attention is on Yugi Mouto
Weevil then think, you don't know it Yugi, but I got something that'll blast you away. My ultimate bug that I couldn't get back at duelist kingdom, but will unleash in the tournament, on you."
The register man continues, "now, everyone will duel with the original official rules, starting with eight thousand life points, tribute rule, etc. However, there are new rules for each monsters type as well as even their attributes. You may play your fusion monster like a normal monster, but ritual monsters can be summoned only my rituals. Their can even be a five hundred point advantage over some types, but not all. There will be eliminators out an about in the city, but only at certain times. They will duel for complete annihilation, if you win, you save your star chips for now, but will not receive any star chips of your own. If you loose, you forfeit all of your star chips. If you leave the city, then you forfeit the match."
"That'll be a little tough," Tristan went.
"Finally, the elimination round will continue on until there are no more then sixteen finalist, or as many as could enter before everyone else is eliminated. Those sixteen competitors will compete live on TV, starting in the Semi-Quarterfinals. Then into the Quarterfinals with eight remaining competitors, semi-finals with four, and the Championship Finals with two. Only the two finalists will collect the prize money, but only one will collect the grand prize, and the runner-up will receive half."
"That makes sense," Rex went.
"Now, register here please, and tell me your best cards."
"Yugi Mouto, Dark Magician."
"Joey Wheeler, Flaming Swordsman and Red-Eyes Black Dragon."
"Tea Gardner, Magician of Faith."
"Tristan Taylor, Cyber Commnander."
"Rex Raptor, all of my cards are my best."
"Weevil Underwood, I'll keep my best cards to myself"
"Very well then, you've all registered, good luck to you all."
In a abandon warehouse, men in hooded clothing stand in the fire
"The tournament will begin this coming weakened, the biggest tournament ever created," said one of the hooded men
Malik, the owner of the Millennium staff steps into the light of the fire, "then go to the tournament. There bound to be rare cards there, I want them all in our possession."
"We will collect the rare cards, for we are the RARE HUNTERS."
"Wow, I surely can't believe it," Tristan says as he reads the manual for the projectors. "This says that your monsters can evolve into more advance stages, even though you don't own the card."
"Yeah, I can send my Flaming Swordsman out into battle," Joey went, impressed about something.
"That means I don't have to carry my Magician of Black Chaos or my Blackluster Soldier as normally if what that guy was saying is true."
"I'm sure we all will do just fine," Tea went
"Not really, Yugi and Joey can get in, but we don't have very strong cards," Tristan went
"You're right, we can't make it that far, we'll probably be eliminated in the first duel." Tea is shocked when Tristan slaps her face with a reality check
"Don't worry Tea, I'm sure my grandpa will be happy to loan both you and Tristan some useful cards."
"Well that's a relief," Tristan said aloud.
Back at the Kaiba Corp., Mocuba returns and hands his older brother his gear
"This is it?" Kaiba went
"That's it, it's based on our system," Mocuba went. "Oh and Yugi and the others will all be competing."
"Figures. Here, take this," Kaiba gives Mocuba a card
"What? How did you manage to get a hold of this card? It's almost just as rare as the Blue-Eyes White Dragons."
Kaiba looks through the systems manual, since he didn't developed them, "of course. But I want you to have it, I have that thing for a long time, and I never even drew it in my hand once, so I want you to keep it."
"Thanks Seto, you're the best."
What is that card that Kaiba gave to his little brother Mocuba?
What card is Weevil talking about in his thoughts back at the registration office?
Will Tea and Tristan get good cards?
Will everyone master the new house rules?
Just keep reading this fic to find out
Next Chapter: Preliminary Match
Yugi and his friends arrive at a meeting for each duelist, as well as Seto Kaiba and Mocuba. The manager holds a Preliminary Match, with Joey and Seto Kaiba. Who will win?
All in the next Chapter
CHAPTER TWO: DUEL CITY REGISTRATION
Seto Kaiba sits in his office, working on his program for his next holographic project on a different game this time. Even though he still have interests in Duel Monsters, he wants to try something different.
Kaiba then gets a phone ring, and answers it, "Kaiba. What? Who was responsible? Take care of it? A meeting? Fine, I'll be there in a few."
Kaiba hangs up the phone, closes down his computer and heads towards the meeting hall. Outside of his office, his little brother Mocuba greets him
"Hey Seto, I'm back."
"Not now Mocuba, there's been some trouble with the corporations accountant, I'll hear about your trip later."
"Okay, oh and Seto, if we needed any money, there's a tournament coming up this weakened. Registrations tomorrow, I heard it was based on your tournament last year, except you wage star chips instead of rarest card in your deck"
"Not right now Mocuba."
Kaiba isn't interested in any type of tournament right now, all he wants to do is take care of the problem, and the board has already fired the accountant for his laziness
Kaiba walks into the hall, that isn't far from his office. Mocuba followed him to there, but then turns around and walks to his room
"What happened?" Kaiba asks
"Tseng messed up," begins one of the members of the board, more loyal then the last board a year ago (since they tried to removed both the Kaiba brothers twice). "He placed all of our money into a separate account, his exact words were, 'this'll save our companies money, when we loose one account, we still have the other.' But then he decided to wager them in stocks, confident about our companies reputation."
"So what happened?" Kaiba asks
"Tseng stolen some of our money for his own personal needs, and pushed the wrong buttons to cover his rear, the stock went broke, we lost all of our money."
Kaiba becomes shocked, "what? Do we even have any left?"
"No, I'm afraid not. He claims we could get more money this way, but he claimed wrong. He's already on his way to jail as we speak. The only money that we do have left is in your fathers account."
"Adopted father. And last time I checked, it'll support this company, but not for long. Is there anything we could do?"
"Fundraiser is the only thing we could come up with," said a different board member
"Fundraiser? This isn't the school you know, this is business, we need a better plan," Kaiba is upset, he wants to meet Tseng the accountant and beat him down
"Wait, I think I have an idea," Kaiba went
Mocuba unpacks his things from his trip to London, all kinds of neat things to tell somebody, but his brother doesn't want to listen to it right now.
Mocuba thinks to himself, I wonder what kind of problems the company is having.
"Mocuba?" Kaiba walks into Mocubas personal room
"Seto?" Mocuba is surprised, he didn't expect to see Seto for hours
"The tournament you spoke of, what's the prize money?"
"Um, the champion gets one million yin, and the runner-up gets half of that"
"Good, register us both to the tournament tomorrow, we need that money"
"Come on Yug, just use that Millennium Necklace that you've gotten from that crazy lady and use it to figure out who nabbed my sister." Joey beggs
"I.I'll try, but I don't think it'll work that way." Yugi runs into his room, grabbing his millennium necklace that he now owns from Ishitzu and walks back
Joey doesn't have the patients, "come on Yug"
Yugi then went into a dead sprint to the couch, scared of what Joey would do if he couldn't find her
"Alright, I haven't fully mastered this item yet, but I'll try."
Everyone sits and waits while Yugi concentrates. The necklace has the powers to see into the past, and even the possible future
Yugi concentrates all on Serenity in the past, it was two-hours before Joey made it home, Serenity has just arrived in Joey's apartment. She let herself in, and she is alone. Serenity closes the door behind her, but didn't shut all the way. Then a shadowy humanoid shaped figure walks in. Just as Serenity saw the hand, she is grabbed and dragged out of the apartment. The figure returns to the apartment, and left his note on the table where Joey found it.
When Serenity saw the hand, Yugi noticed that the same shadowy hand, took form into a human hand. Yugi guesses that the reason why the figure is shadowy, is because Serenity couldn't see who it was
"She was taken by someone while we were in school," Yugi went. "Serenity accidentally left the door open, and that's how he got in. She didn't see the guy, so I couldn't see him"
"He's going to meet Joey in the tournament, just for payback that Joey did to him," Tristan begins to think. "I wonder if its Bandit Keith, his life was ruined twice. By Pegasus by humiliating him with some rookie kid, and then by Joey an Amateur who suppose to don't stand a chance, even after Bandit Keith was cheating that time"
"Yeah but, how could he even knows where Joey live?" Tea went
"It could've been someone in the past that I've fought," Joey cracks his knuckles
"That could be anyone," Tristan said, knowing that Joey had gotten into a lot of fights
"Well, lets gets some rest and go register early tomorrow
The next morning, Yugi and his friends got up early and headed towards the registration office
When Yugi and others entered, they saw someone they haven't seen in a long time, "Mocuba?"
"Huh? Yugi." Mocuba is glad to see Yugi, and who wouldn't, he saved his soul and as well as his brother from Pegasus, and even helped saved his brother in the game that Kaiba designed.
"You competing too?" Joey asks
"Yeah, both me and my brother."
"Seto is competing too?" Tea is surprised
"Oh I hope he wont take us out first," Tristan went, almost into tears
"Don't worry, we've talked about it and he said we wont bother with any of you until the Semi-Quarterfinals"
"Semi-Quarterfinals, what's that?" Yugi asks
"That man will explain everything."
Everyone walks up to the register man
"Hello, are you all competing?"
"Of course we're all competing," Joey said sarcastically
"Great, the more the merrier. Each of you will get the state of the art dueling system that'll record everything, as well as a newly designed gauntlet, scouter, and two starting starchips."
The register man turns over to the gear laying neatly on the counter
"The small device there goes one of your ears. The glass has a built in device to show all the data of your monsters as well as your opponents in play, as well as all of your trap and magic cards faced down in play and which buttons to activate them, which cards you have in your hand when you received them by a effect, and as well shows both you and your opponents life points."
"Looks like the Power Reader on DBZ in Saiyan and Frieza sagas," Tristan observed.
"Yes well...that's where it's based on. Next we have the duel system. This system is more advance, as well as the light weight system then Kaiba Corps. previous system, and not to mention more balanced. You insert your dueling deck in the left slot, and just play the game, make sure you push all the right buttons before playing the card, the manual will explain. Then place the card on the right side, on the holographical reader. The slot underneath it is where you insert your cards after playing them."
"Well that's pretty neat," Tea went
"Finally, the next system here are the projectors, also light weight, both duelist must carry no more and no less them two of these. Each of these projectors must be no further then twenty-five feet apart, because each slot is five-feet width and length. The extra five feet between both sides is where the battles is simulated. On these projectors are lights. Yellow means they're too close, green means they're within range, and red means they're too far apart. Believe me, the closer and more even the projectors, the more better the holographic images will be."
"Ow, too much stuff to remember," Joey went.
"And finally you have your dueling gauntlet, each of you will carry one of these. They each come with two starting star chips, and you need at least fifteen to get into the Semi-Quarterfinals."
"Did he say fifteen?" Yugi is surprised.
"That's right, fifteen. Both you and your opponents must wager the current star chips you have. But the Duel City is a metronome size city, that means you can rent apartments, buy food, cards, or even ride in taxis and subway systems."
"Did he just say metronome size city?" Tea worriedly asks. "That's huge."
"But, these items can't be purchased by any type of currency."
"Then how can we buy food if we can't even buy them with money?"
"By buying them with your star chips."
"What?" Tristan went
"That'll make things more interesting, wouldn't you say Yugi?" That voice sounded awfully familiar.
"Don't tell me who that is that I think it is," Tea went
Everyone turns around, seeing Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor standing by the door
"Long time no see Yugi, I plan to have a rematch with you in the tournament"
"I'm looking forward to it," Yugi acted more courageous, remembering what Weevil did to his Exodia cards.
"If you all listen, then I'll explain about the house rules," continues the register man Everyone turns their attention back to the guy, except for Weevil who his attention is on Yugi Mouto
Weevil then think, you don't know it Yugi, but I got something that'll blast you away. My ultimate bug that I couldn't get back at duelist kingdom, but will unleash in the tournament, on you."
The register man continues, "now, everyone will duel with the original official rules, starting with eight thousand life points, tribute rule, etc. However, there are new rules for each monsters type as well as even their attributes. You may play your fusion monster like a normal monster, but ritual monsters can be summoned only my rituals. Their can even be a five hundred point advantage over some types, but not all. There will be eliminators out an about in the city, but only at certain times. They will duel for complete annihilation, if you win, you save your star chips for now, but will not receive any star chips of your own. If you loose, you forfeit all of your star chips. If you leave the city, then you forfeit the match."
"That'll be a little tough," Tristan went.
"Finally, the elimination round will continue on until there are no more then sixteen finalist, or as many as could enter before everyone else is eliminated. Those sixteen competitors will compete live on TV, starting in the Semi-Quarterfinals. Then into the Quarterfinals with eight remaining competitors, semi-finals with four, and the Championship Finals with two. Only the two finalists will collect the prize money, but only one will collect the grand prize, and the runner-up will receive half."
"That makes sense," Rex went.
"Now, register here please, and tell me your best cards."
"Yugi Mouto, Dark Magician."
"Joey Wheeler, Flaming Swordsman and Red-Eyes Black Dragon."
"Tea Gardner, Magician of Faith."
"Tristan Taylor, Cyber Commnander."
"Rex Raptor, all of my cards are my best."
"Weevil Underwood, I'll keep my best cards to myself"
"Very well then, you've all registered, good luck to you all."
In a abandon warehouse, men in hooded clothing stand in the fire
"The tournament will begin this coming weakened, the biggest tournament ever created," said one of the hooded men
Malik, the owner of the Millennium staff steps into the light of the fire, "then go to the tournament. There bound to be rare cards there, I want them all in our possession."
"We will collect the rare cards, for we are the RARE HUNTERS."
"Wow, I surely can't believe it," Tristan says as he reads the manual for the projectors. "This says that your monsters can evolve into more advance stages, even though you don't own the card."
"Yeah, I can send my Flaming Swordsman out into battle," Joey went, impressed about something.
"That means I don't have to carry my Magician of Black Chaos or my Blackluster Soldier as normally if what that guy was saying is true."
"I'm sure we all will do just fine," Tea went
"Not really, Yugi and Joey can get in, but we don't have very strong cards," Tristan went
"You're right, we can't make it that far, we'll probably be eliminated in the first duel." Tea is shocked when Tristan slaps her face with a reality check
"Don't worry Tea, I'm sure my grandpa will be happy to loan both you and Tristan some useful cards."
"Well that's a relief," Tristan said aloud.
Back at the Kaiba Corp., Mocuba returns and hands his older brother his gear
"This is it?" Kaiba went
"That's it, it's based on our system," Mocuba went. "Oh and Yugi and the others will all be competing."
"Figures. Here, take this," Kaiba gives Mocuba a card
"What? How did you manage to get a hold of this card? It's almost just as rare as the Blue-Eyes White Dragons."
Kaiba looks through the systems manual, since he didn't developed them, "of course. But I want you to have it, I have that thing for a long time, and I never even drew it in my hand once, so I want you to keep it."
"Thanks Seto, you're the best."
What is that card that Kaiba gave to his little brother Mocuba?
What card is Weevil talking about in his thoughts back at the registration office?
Will Tea and Tristan get good cards?
Will everyone master the new house rules?
Just keep reading this fic to find out
Next Chapter: Preliminary Match
Yugi and his friends arrive at a meeting for each duelist, as well as Seto Kaiba and Mocuba. The manager holds a Preliminary Match, with Joey and Seto Kaiba. Who will win?
All in the next Chapter
