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CHAPTER 9

FAITH AND HEART

*****

Tristan plays his next card to finish off his first opponent of the tournament. "Alright, I now play my Dark Fire Soldier #2."

The black figured soldier covered in flames and holding a sword appears, in attack mode (1700/1100)

"Then I'll send him on the attack against your Labyrinth Wall," Tristan mentions.

"How?" His opponent asks. "According to my scouter, your Dark Fire Soldier has seventeen hundred attack points, while my wall has three- thousand defense points. Your Dark Fire Soldier attack power wont stand up to my walls defense power."

"Who said anything about attacking its defensive power?" Tristan asks, revealing a magic card: Stop Defense.

"Oh no," his foe went.

Tristan plays the magic card, switching the wall into attack mode (0/3000).

"Now I'll send my soldier on the attack, as I activate my trap card: Reinforcments.

The dark fire soldier appears to now be five dark fire soldiers (2200/1100). The soldiers destroys the wall, as well as the remaining life points of Tristans opponent.
TRISTAN: 2350

OPPONENT: 0
"No, I lost," cries his opponent

"Yep, that's what happens when you go up against the Tristan Taylor" Tristan went, collecting the two star chips he wagered for.

Then he runs over to Yugi and the others

"Great duel Tristan" Yugi congratulated

"Yeah, almost as good as me" Joey teased

"Yep, defiantly not bad," Tristan agrees.

"Come on, now it's my turn to find an opponent," Tea went

"Then lets go find one" Yugi agrees

Everyone follows Tea as she volunteers to take the lead to search for her first opponent

*****

Outside of the city, Keemo awaits outside of his gate, waiting for his shift to finally end and his replacement to show up.

"Excuse me" said a strange young voice

Keemo looks over to see an Egyptian man standing right by him

"What do you want?" Keemo asks

"Is this the Duel City Tournament Competitions?"

"Well it isn't a communist town with the fences up, but yeah it is. You're too late to join up, the competition started over an hour ago"

"I have no interest in joining Keemo, I'm only here to look for someone"

"Hey, how did you know my name?"

"I know a lot more then your own name, therefore I know of your past. If you don't let me pass, then we'll have to play a shadow game with my millennium scale"

Keemo remembers about Pegasus telling him about the shadow games, and worries about what the millennium scale powers might be, but is up for it

"What kind of game?" Keemo asks.

The man takes a feather out of his top and places it on one of the plates of the scales. "I am Shadi, a servant of Anubis and the keeper of the millennium scale. This game will test your will and goodness. I'll asks you many questions. Your heart is placed in one plate, and the feather of Ma'at in the other. If your sins is heavier then the feather, the penalty game of death will awaits you"

"Huh?" Keemo wonders if this Shadi person is wacked out

"First question, would you steal food for yourself, or for starving children who are also dying of hunger"

Keemo decides to play it out, "I'd steal for the children of course"

Then the empty plate starts to lower, as if something invisible has just been placed

"Huh?" Keemo said in shocked

"You lie" Shadi went. "Next question"

*****

In another part of town, Kaiba with only six star chips now, continues walking around town

"Who do you think I should take on next Seto?" Mocuba asks.

"Hey you," a duelist went

The duelist runs up to Kaiba

"I challenge you to a duel"

"Denied" Kaiba answers

"What?"

"I tell you what" Kaiba starts making a deal. "Defeat my brother, and I'll accept your challenge"

The duelist looks over to Mocuba, then takes out his dueling gear, "alright, lets go"

*****

Tea sits on the bench, tired out. They haven't found any opponent at all

"Now what should I do?" Tea asks

Everyone remains silent, then someones voice rang out

"Hey, are any of you all still dueling?"

Everyone looks over to see some girl running up to them

"Yeah, I am" Tea replies

"Great, then lets duel" The girl insisted, revealing that she has already has six star chips

"Wow, you must be good to have that many star chips so fast" Yugi went

As the two girls set up, the girl went, "my name's Anna, and I got these extra chips from some friends who couldn't come today, so they gave me their chips"

"That's nice of them." Tea went. "And my name's Tea, now lets duel"

TEA: 8000

ANNA: 8000

Tea goes first, "I'll play a monster in defense mode"

The card reveals itself face down

"Cool, I'll then play my Dissoverock and attack with it" Anna went

The dissolverock appears to be some type of dissolved monster (900/1000)

When the Dissolverock attacked, it attacks Tea's face down Green Phantom King card (500/1600)

"Oh no" Anna went

TEA: 8000

ANNA: 7300
As soon as Anna ends her turn, Tea plays her Neo the Magic Swordsman (1700/1000), then sends her on the attack against Anna's Dissolverock card, destroying it

TEA: 8000

ANNA: 6500

Anna then plays a monster in defensive mode, and Tea sacrifices her Green Phantom King in order to play her Gyakutenno Megami in attack mode (1800/2000). Sending her Gyakutenno Megami to attack Anna's defending monster, and Neo the Magic Swordsman to attack directly

TEA: 8000

ANNA: 5800

"Wow, your very good Tea" Anna congratulate

"Thank you," Tea went.

Anna plays a magic card called Change of Heart, and took control of Gyakutenno Megami and uses it as an offering for Twin-Headed Fire Dragon (2200/1700)

Anna then sends her Twin-Headed Fire Dragon card to attacks Tea's Neo the Magic Swordsman

"Good comeback" Tea went

"Thanks"

TEA: 7500

ANNA: 5800

"Well, at least they're still making friends out of each other," Joey observed

Tea draws her next card: Senju of the Thousand Hands. She heard a rumor about this cards hidden powers, and decides to check it out. She already has her only ritual card in her hand

"I play my Senju of the Thousand Hands," Tea announces. "Then, I'll activate its special effect"

As soon as Senju appears, Tea receives her permission from her scouter to search her deck for her ritual monster card.

"Then I'll activate his one of his two hidden powers. One to allow me to search my deck for any card I want" Tea comfirms that hidden power, and searches her deck for the card she wants

"Then, I'll activate its second hidden powers, to be able to play my ritual monster on the same turn"

"Can she do that?" Tristan asks

"If it's one of Senjus hidden abilities" Yugi answers

Sure enough, it is

"Alright," Tea began. "I play my Commencement dance ritual card, sacrificing my two monsters in my hand, and then play my ritual monster: Performance of the Sword"

The sword dancer appears (1900/1850)

"Then, I'll play these two cards face down," Tea went. "Then I send my Performance of the Sword on the attack"

The swords dancer attacks, even though she is weaker then the Twin- Headed Fire Dragon

"I'll activate a magic card," Tea announces, "Graceful Dice"

The little angel appears, and rolls its die, rolling a 4, increasing the Performance of the Swords attack power to 2300, destroying the dragon

TEA: 7500

ANNA: 5700

As everyone watches the duel, Yugi notices a familiar figure in the alleys not far from where he's at. "Is that?"

Yugi leaves the group, and runs towards the alley where he spotted the figure

When he enters the alley, he becomes shocked at his discovery of who it is, "Shadi?"

"Yugi, good to see you again"

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm afraid Yugi, that you may be in danger. There are evil forces at work here, evil forces that wants nothing more then revenge"

"Evil forces?" Yugi asks

"Of course, be weary Yugi, for both yours, and the pharaohs sake"

Then Shadi turns and disappears into the shadows

"Hey wait," Yugi yells out, following Shadi into the shadows, but he has disappeared. "What does he meant by evil forces?"

*****

Mocuba puts up a good fight, but both duelists LP is very low

"Alright, punk, it's your turn" Mocubas foe mentions

Mocuba draws a card, the same card that Kaiba has given to him before the tournament began. He looks on the field, with the swords of revealing lights that they both played, and his opponents has just worn off, and enough monsters on the field, Mocuba knows he can win

"I'll sacrifice my two monsters in play" Mocuba went

The two monsters disappears into the card shaped vortex behind them both, and out cam a monster, that shocked his opponent

"And play: Tri-Horned Dragon"

One of the worlds most rarest monsters appears under Mocubas complete control (2850/2350)

"Attack, Tri-Horned Dragon" Mocuba commands

The dragon casts its fire blast, blasting the foes monsters away, and whipping out his remaining life points

"Oh no" His opponent went

"You've lost" Kaiba said, proud of his little brother

*****

"That was a great duel," Anna congratulated Tea after she has won. "Maybe we could duel again someday"

Anna hands four star chips to Tea

"Ah, Anna..."

"Keep them" Anna insisted

"Okay" Tea said with a smile

Anna and Tea said their goodbyes and went their own separate ways

"That was a good duel Tea" Joey congratulated

"Yeah, thanks"

"Alright, now it's my turn" Yugi went, still thinking about what Shadi has told him earlier
Next Chapter:

Yugi gets kidnapped by some duelist, and duels the leader. Meanwhile, Tea, Joey and Tristan splits up in order to find Yugi. Will they find him before it's too late?

Next Chapter: Kidnapped

I know, this chapter is a bit fast, but I want to get to Yugi's first duel of the tournaments elimination round as fast as possible

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