Chapter 12

Royal Dueling Princess

Joey continues running through the streets, not finding Yugi anywhere.

"Man, where is he?" Joey asks aloud.

Then Joey hears some whimpering not far from where he's at, so he decides to investigate.

"Hey, anybody here?" Joey yells out, finding a young girl dressed in a pink princess outfit, crying her eyes out in a alley. With her dueling system, Joey knows she's competing.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Joey asks.

The girl looks up at Joey, "Teddy is stuck up there," the girl answers, pointing up at the power lines above them both.

Joey estimates that the girl kept tossing the bear into the air, and it landed onto the power lines.

"Sit tight," Joey said, climbing up a pipe, reaching the cables.

Since the bear's out of his reach, he shakes the cable so the bear can fall into the girls arms. As Joey climbs back down, the girl went, "thank you mister"

"The name's Joey Wheeler, an alley isn't a good place for little girls, so why don't you go run along and find yourself a good opponent kid."

Joey then leaves the girl behind, continuing his search for Yugi.

*****

Yugi and Tristan searches everywhere, this time staying close to one another.

"Man, where did he go?" Tristan wonders aloud.

"Maybe he's back eating at the food stand, you know how much he likes to eat," Yugi suggests

"No way, when friends in trouble, he wont take a break and eat just like that, especially if he could find them"

"Well, then I don't know," Yugi went.

"Don't worry, we'll find him Yugi, now come on, break time's over," Tristan said, and continues his search

"Break time? Since when did that started?"

*****

Tea continues her search for Yugi, still companied by Dan Krelin.

"So, can I asks why you're helping me?" Tea asks

"Because you're a girl in need, and I'm going to be the hero who helps the lady," Dan said, in a Shakespeare way.

Tea recognizes how he said it, "you need to work on your poetry Shakespeare. Are you helping me because I cute."

"No, because your beautiful"

Tea didn't expected that one and blushes a little

"Well, um, thanks."

"Yugi is the kid who defeated Pegasus and Seto Kaiba over a year ago, right?"

"Yes, he did beat them both, it wasn't easy I can assure you that"

"I bet it wasn't. You know, if we had this tournament in America, I would've made some phone calls and help track Yugi down by satellite."

"You can do that?" Tea asks, very impressed, but yet wonders if he really could

"Of course, I come from a very wealthy family" Dan explains. "My brother is competing too, but we don't see eye-to-eye"

"Why's that?"

"Don't know, probably because we're rivals for our fathers position in his business."

"What kind of business does he do?"

*****

Joey has exited out of the alley, and into an open area with only a few duelist. But none of them are Yugi, or anyone that he knows.

"Man, where is he?"

"Who are you looking for?" Joey became surprised, and turns to see the same little girl has followed him out of the alley.

"A friend, now please go on, my friend's in trouble."

"Forget him, I'll be your friend."

"Thanks for the offer kid, but I can't just forget him just like that."

"Yes you can, I am a princess, and I order you to forget him and be my friend."

"Sorry kid, but you're no real princess, bye" Joey said, and runs in a random direction.

The girl follows Joey.

*****

Marik walks out of his room, where there are some rare hunters waiting for him. "There's a dragon duelist with an extremely rare card, find him and bring it to me. Use this card if you must"

Marik hands his most prized and rarest card to one of the rare hunters, and he leaves with it.

*****

Joey starts to become very annoyed with the little girl

"Listen girl, I aint got no time for these, so please buzz off."

"No, I am a princess, and you are my friend"

"What's your name?"

"Anzu"

"Well Anzu, buzz off. What does it take for you to leave?"

The girl thinks aloud, "if only you disqualify me from the Duel City Tournament"

"Well I have a reputation to keep, but fine then. Anything to get rid of you Anzu."

The two duelists set up their dueling ground, they both only have three star chips, so that's how much they've wagered, and Anzu goes first

ANZU: 8000

JOEY: 8000

"I play my Senju of the Thousand Hands in attack mode" Anzu announces

The creepy fairy booduh priest with a thousand hands appears in attack mode (1400/1000), then Anzu ends her turn

"No problem," Joey went, playing his freshly drawn monster card

Joey's card appears on the field as the Gearfried the Iron Knight in attack mode (1800/1600), then Joey sends Gearfried to destroy Anzu's Senju of the Thousand Hands

"Oh no," Anzu went

"Oh yeah" Joey proudly went. "Hey wait a minute, what am I celebrating about?"

ANZU: 7600

JOEY: 8000

Anzu begins her next turn, "no matter, with Senju, he allowed me to search my deck for any ritual monster I want, and move it to my hand."

"I'll take on any ritual monster you throw at me" Joey went

"I now play, The Unfriendly Amazon in attack mode along with my Scapegoat card"

"What?" Joey sounded surprised

"Attack Unfriendly Amazon" Anzu commands

Then The Unfriendly Amazon appears (2000/1000), and attacks Joey's Gearfried, destroying it

ANZU: 7600

JOEY: 7800

"Even though The Unfriendly Amazon requires me to sacrifice a monster during each of my standby phases in order to keep her in, I'll just simply use my scapegoats in order to keep her in play for four turns straight" Anzu explains

"Really?" Joey no longer sounds worried, so he begins his card, and plays his De-Spell in order to destroy Anzu's Scapegoat card

"Oh no" Anzu went, as her Scapegoat card is removed from play

"Now I'll simply play my Axe Raider in attack mode" Joey went, playing his Axe Raider (1700/1150)

Joey then ends his turn, and since Anzu doesn't have any monsters in play, she can't keep her The Unfriendly Amazon card, as it's destroyed

"Good bye Unfriendly Amazon" Anzu waves to her lost holographic card

"Oh boy," Joey sighs

Anzu draws a new card, "wee, I play Graceful Charity."

With Graceful Charity, Anzu can draw up to three cards, and discard two from her hand.

"Wee," Anzu celebrates, "now I play my Lord of D., along with The Flute of Summoning Dragons"

"Huh?" Joey sounds surprised

Anzus Lord of D. appears with his flute, and then he plays his flute, and two of Anzus high level dragons appears straight from Anzu's hand: Curse of Dragon (2000/1500) and Serpent Night Dragon (2350/2400)

"Ah, no way," Joey sounds deeply surprised

"Attack that Axe Raider Curse of Dragon" Anzu commands, and it obeys, destroying the Axe Raider. Then Anzu sends both Serpent Night Dragon and Lord of D. to attack Joey's life points directly

"Oh no" Joey cries out as soon after he looses his life points

ANZU: 7600

JOEY: 3950

"Yeah, I'm in the lead," Anzu celebrates

Joey kept quiet, and draws a new card, "first, I'll lay these two cards face down, then I shall play Card Destruction"

"What?" Anzu sounds surprised, she was hoping she wouldn't loose her ritual card

"We both loose all of our hands, and redraw a new one. Therefore, now I shall activate one of the cards I placed face down, Monster Reborn, and bring back my card that I've lost do to my own card: my Red-Eyes Black Dragon"

"Oh no" Anzu cries, as Joeys Red-Eyes Black Dragon appears (2400/2000).

"Then I shall equip my Red-Eyes with Dragon Nails from my hand" Joey went, didn't even expected to draw it, but lucky that he did

Then the dragon nails appears on his dragons hand, increasing its power (3100/2700)

"Then, I will activate my other face down card, Reigeki to destroy all of your monsters in play"

The magic card destroys the Lord of D. first, and then removes the other two dragons in play, leaving Anzu completely defenseless.

"Attack, Red-Eyes Black Dragon" Joey orders, sending his Red-Eyes Black Dragon to attack Anzu directly

ANZU: 4500

JOEY: 3950

As soon as Anzu stops her tears, she draws a new card, "yeah, I won"

"Huh?" Joey wonders what she's up to

"I play MY Monster Reborn, in order to bringing in my ritual monster into play"

"Well, what is it?"

"I play, my Relinquished."

"Relinquished, how did you get that card?" Joey remembers Yugi telling him about Pegasus using that card

"Relinquished, absorb the Red-Eyes, Black Dragon" Anzu commands as soon as Relinquished comes into play (0/0), and absorbs Joey's REBD (3100/2700), then Anzu sends Relinquished to attack Joey directly

ANZU: 4500

JOEY: 850

Man, this is embarrassing, Joey thinks to himself. Joey knows he only has one chance to win, and draws his next card.

Joey announces "I lay three cards face down, and next I'll play my Panther Warrior in defensive mode, and then play Dien Keto the Cure Master to increase my life points"

ANZU: 4500

JOEY: 1850

The warrior appears (2000/1600), along with the three faced down cards

"That wont work, I play Stop defense on your Panther Warrior" Anzu announces.

"Panther Warrior switches to attack mode"

"Then I shall send Relinquish to finish you off for good"

Relinquished attacks

"You fell into my trap: Gazim of Spikes"

The trap card opens up underneath Relinquished, but the trap card took Joey's dragon instead returning Relinquishes power back to normal (0/0), and since it was Joeys dragon, he suffers some major damages to his life points thanks to his trap cards secondary effect

ANZU: 4500

JOEY: 300

"No matter, I'll just simply have my Relinquish absorb your Panther Warrior then" Anzu announces, and activates Relinquishes ability

"Sorry kid, but this duel is mine" Joey went, activating his second face down card: Scapegoat, so Relinquished will end up absorbing one of those instead, leaving the Relinquishes still at 0/0

"Oh no" Anzu cries out

"Oh yes, now Panther Warrior, attack" Joey commands, sacrificing one of his three remaining Scapegoats in order to have it destroy Relinquished

ANZU: 2500

JOEY: 300

Anzu very worried now, plays her Mystical Elf face up in defense mode (800/2000), but Joey activates his last face down card: Graverobber, taking Anzu's Relinquished, so it'll absorb the Mystical Elf.

Joey against sacrifices one of his remaining two Scapegoats to attack Anzu directly, and then have Relinquish finish her off

ANZU 0

JOEY: 300

Anzu starts crying, as Joey takes his prize, "well, at least she's out of my hair"

"Joey, great duel" Yugi went

Joey turns to see Yugi running up to him along with Joey

"Yeah, that was great, wasn't it?" Joey went

"Yeah, too bad she knocked you down to three-hundred life points" Tristan went

"What? How did you know that?" Joey asks

Both Yugi and Tristan points at their scouters, as if they're saying they kept track of the entire duels scoring system with their scouters

"Oh, right" Joey went, more humiliated when he got his butt whooped by a little girl

Next Chapter:

Tristan duels against an opponent. And the rare hunter takes on the dragon duelist. Plus a new character that could be a new threat to Yugi and the others

Next Chapter: The Rarest Dragon Cards