Brood: Konnichi-wa minna-san! Guess what! It's.. CHAPTER 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEEEEE!!!!!! So never fear! Chapter 2 is here!
Someone in Background: So fear. Brood with caffeine is here..
Brood: Everyone, this is Zutsokaki, our master cynic. He is a friend of a friend, and is making my life a living hel.I mean.offering his help to my noble cause..
Zutsokaki: Noble? Yeah right.. just give these poor people the story and torture and get it over with..
Brood:.. Fine.. hey! Torture?
CHAPTER 2
Anzu sighed as she rode in a taxi headed straight for the Domino City Docks. She looked around and saw many taxis and cars going in that same direction. In fact, the whole street was congested by the terrible traffic. For the five-hundredth time that day, she looked at her card, re reading one area.
/International competition..there must be at least 700 duelists there. It will take forever to get to the semi-finals../
After battling traffic for about another twenty minutes, they were barely five blocks ahead. Anzu reached inside of her wallet, paid her driver, and got out to walk to the docks herself, carrying her overlarge bag with her.
/I wonder how Yugi and the others are getting here. They must have figured out by now that driving is doing no good. What time is it..1:41!!!! I have to get there NOW!!/
Anzu quickly picked up the pace, running as fast as she could towards the docks (or as fast as she could with that huge bag.).
The docks started coming into sight after about seven minutes. She moved faster, trying to overcome the weight of her bag. She finally got there a few minutes later and stood on the outskirts of the huge and quickly growing crowd of mostly foreign duelists. Many of them were holding English and/or Japanese translation books of all shapes and sizes in their hands. A few had interpreters with them as well. There was a man standing on the deck of a very large silver and maroon cruise liner, called The Travesty, speaking to the crowd. She recognized the man as one of Pegasus's main security men. He was giving out announcements, with many interpreters standing close to him and repeating his words in other languages for the benefit of many there.
".and all of you who are champions from your own home countries past competitions will have deluxe suites on the A deck. When you get on the ship, go immediately to the Registration Desks set up on deck. There you will receive your room key and Duelist's ID, along with a pamphlet of rules and regulations for the island. The ID's in question are electronically advanced ID's that have your statistics as well as the quick stats of all of the other duelists on this island, like their name and age, along with any noteworthy Duel Monster's accomplishments. This ID also has a map of the island that pinpoints your exact location on the island. You will be told how to use them when you are on board. This cruise trip will take about three days, and there is much to do on the ship during this period. The daily activities include."
"Anzu! Over here!"
Anzu quickly turned around to become face to face with Joey, followed by Honda and Yugi.
"Heya Anzu," Joey said. "We were starting to worry that you hadn't made it!"
"Oh no Joey, I wouldn't miss this for the world and you know it!"
Yugi and Honda caught up at that point, smiling at her.
Yugi looked up at Honda and Anzu. "Are you guys ready for your first big tournament?"
Honda looked around at all of the duelists. "To tell ya the truth Yugi, I am scared out of my mind. This is way bigger than the Duelist Kingdom Championships. I just cant tell how I would do in this big of a tournament."
"Oh don't worry Honda. If you doubt yourself, you won't last the first round. I am sure that you will do fine. You just have to believe in your deck!"
"You are right, as always Yugi."
The security guard on the ship spoke a little louder. "And now everyone please prepare to board the ship! Wait..no shoving..hey, I SAID NO SHOVING!"
A small crowd had rushed the ship's steps and was now mostly stuck. The other security men on the bottom moved past the crowds to break up the shoving at the entrance. One girl with extremely long and wavy light green hair managed to wiggle free and run onto the steps, stumbling lightly, catching herself, and ran the rest of the way up. Pegasus' guard stopped her and asked her a question, and she replied pointing down at the small, yet rapidly breaking up, crowd. He nodded and let her go onto registration.
Yugi and the others watched all of this with interest, and started moving slowly towards the steps. Suddenly a section of the crowds were asked to back up quite a bit, and a second set of steps were lowered laboriously and slowly to the ground. This set of steps was a lot closer than the other one and they turned around towards that one. After they were on the ship, they walked up to the registration desk and received their things. The woman at registration looked up at Yugi at the mention of his name.
"Yugi Motou? The Duelist Kingdom Champion? Well, we should have known to see you here. You might want to watch out, since all of the other duelists might want to knock out all of the tough competition first. Well, here is your key and ID. You obviously have a suite, as well as Mister Joey behind you, for being a semi-finalist in Duelist Kingdom. And here are your ID's and keys, sirs and ma'am."
She handed the keys and ID's to Joey, Honda, and Anzu, and they walked away to the main dining hall. There were duelists everywhere in there, comparing cards simply by showing them to each other, therefore breaking the language barrier. They simply nodded at noteworthy cards, or shook their heads at others and showing off their cards. Some were even trading cards and building up their decks.
Yugi looked around at this with extreme excitement. "Wow! Can you guys believe how many duelists are here! And look at this dining hall! It's enormous!"
Everyone there agreed with Yugi as they took in the sights of the extremely large room. It didn't even fit the title "hall." There were marble pillars ornately carved with some of the more graceful Duel Monster's creatures, such as the Magician of Faith and the Harpy Lady. Joey looked at the Harpy Ladies with a little distaste, even though he had to admit that the carvings made them look more...nice...
The floors where of marble as well, and tables were made of an expensive looking soft white wood, and covered in silk tablecloths. Everyone in the room looked as if they were taking more care in their movements than they were on the dockside, obviously trying not to accidentally ruin something.
After they had marveled at the room long enough, they decided that they weren't hungry and went to see their rooms. On Deck A, they stopped at room 2, which was Yugi's room. He used his key on the carved French door and stepped in with his friends.
His room was very large with a king size bed and Oriental coverings. The furniture was Oriental as well. In fact, all of the furniture was Oriental. Inside of the room as well was an extremely large television and DVD player, with an extensive movie collection. On the other side of his room, there was a set of about three small steps and some very nice glass doors that led to personal deck space with some nice cushioned lawn furniture. There was a bathroom and a mini-bar with nice doors that connected them to the bedroom. After they were done gawking, they went into Joey's room, which was just the next door over, in room 3.
Joey's room was set up in the same fashion as Yugi's, only all of his furniture was Italian, with the couches and chairs black Italian leather. When Joey was done having fun with his remote buttons, they left and turned to find the stairs to the B deck, where Honda and Anzu were staying (and them feeling a little on the jealous side..). But as they started moving down the corridor, the door to room 5 opened and a girl rushed out quickly, ramming into Yugi and Joey. All three of them fell to the floor in confusion.
"Oh!" the girl said, very surprised. "I am very sorry, I vus not looking vare I vus going."
Joey and Yugi looked up at her. It was the light green haired girl that got shoved on the deck. She spoke with a very heavy French accent. Yugi stood up and offered her his hand. She took it and stood as well. Joey got up as well. She looked at them both.
"Do you know vare ze azzembly 'all is? I 'ave gotten a leetle confused and I do not remember vare it iz.." She looked at them with her large brown eyes and blinked.
Joey stared at her before he got his bearings. She wasn't much taller than Yugi, him only gaining height on her because of his hair. "It's uhh.. um..."
Yugi saved him. "It is on the main deck. All you have to do is go pass the dining hall by about five doors. They are very large doors, you can't miss them."
"Oh! Zank you very much monsieur! I am very grateful! But I must zay, zat all of ze doors do appear to be on ze large zide, do zey not?" She smiled and ran off up the stairs.
As she ran off, something inside of the Millennium Puzzle around Yugi's neck twitched. He quickly put his hand over it and turned back toward his friends.
Anzu looked up at Joey. "Joey..put your jaw back in..she couldn't have been very old anyway.."
Joey looked at her with confused eyes. "I don't think that a girl that young could be a Duel Monster's Champion. She came out of one of the suites, remember? I think she just looks young."
Yugi nodded. "He is right. I mean, look at me! You would never think I was in high school with you guys at first glance, right?"
Honda suddenly laughed. "Yeah Yugi, it's just because you're a shrimp!"
"Am not!!!!!" Yugi was indignant. Everyone else laughed good- naturedly at this, and Yugi caught on and laughed too after a minute.
After their little venture around the ship, and looking at Anzu and Honda's rooms, which were by most standards much better than they had expected, they stopped in the dining hall and ate their dinner. Since they were just a little late, the lines to the food were all but gone. The food was very nice, AND prepared by expert chefs and they ate enough of it to feel as if they needed a forklift to heft them out of the dining hall.
When they were done stuffing themselves silly, they occupied themselves with looking at everyone else in the room. They saw lots of interesting people, most looking over their cards. They saw a few in African robes, some in kimonos and others just looking like they didn't care what they wore. And there were some in long dark coats..with short brown hair..and cold eyes..and leather pants..
Yugi looked at him with a start. "Guys! Over there! It's Seto Kaiba!"
His friends looked in the direction Yugi was looking in. Kaiba was sitting alone towards the edge of the room, eating quietly and looking over a couple of his cards.
Anzu turned her head towards Yugi. "Well, he is one of the best Duel Monster's Champions, right? It's no real surprise he is here. But he had better leave us alone!"
"Yeah, I don't feel like being bothered by his likes. After all you did to help him, and all he can think about is still defeating you!" Honda looked away from Kaiba and pulled out his deck of cards.
"Hey!" Yugi said. "What kind of deck do you have there Honda?"
"Oh, it's just a quick something I put together. It's a really cool deck! I got all cool sorts of monsters in here, but mostly beasts. There are also some really good magic cards here that help clear the field for my attacks. I also put in a couple of brute force monsters just to throw off the opponent. There are also some really good trap cards also."
"Wow Honda, that sounds really neat! I think you will do very well. What about you Anzu?..Anzu..?"
Anzu had fallen asleep at the table, and was breathing quietly. Joey shook her and helped carry her to her room. Honda went into his as well. As Yugi and Joey went back to their rooms, Yugi was treated to Joey ranting about the foreign girls.
"I mean, whoa! Did you see that one Italian one sitting around in the hall! She was hot! And that Korean looking broad! Man, her body was just...WOW! Ooh, and that French girl! Kinda short, but had nice...."
Yugi looked over at Joey, not letting him finish that sentence. "Uh Joey, why don't we talk about something else now? Do you think Kaiba will try to knock me out of the tournament early? Or go after the weaker duelers first?"
"Neah Yuge. He wont get you first. I think he will want to save you for the cope de' grace if ya know what I mean."
"Yeah I do Joey, but your French is horrible!" Yugi laughed.
"Hey, do you think that French bird'll teach me some proper.."language of love?"
"Uh Joey, here are our rooms. I'll see you in the morning." He walked to his door, then stopped. "And the day I see you bag a chick is the day I eat my Puzzle!" He laughed and scampered into his room leaving Joey nothing but air to grab when he tried to snag Yugi for that.
"Hey Yuge! That was a blow below the belt there!" Then Joey just chuckled and went into his room for the night.
LATER
Yugi lay in his bed, stirring. His Millennium Puzzle kept bothering him, and he didn't know what Yami was up to.
/Yami! Yami! Can I get some sleep?/
//I am sorry Yugi, but I cant seem to rest here....//
/Any reason? Something I can help with?/
//Not that I know of. But I feel something....something I haven't felt in awhile, but I can't place it. I get the feeling that something big is happening, or will happen....//
/Well, things like this seem to always happen to us anyway....try and rest, okay?/
//Alright....for you aibou, I'll try. Good night.//
/Good night./
//Uhhh...hey. You won't really eat me, will you?//
Brood: Hey! Was this one long enough? I will continue the boat ride in the next chapter and a surprise! So yay for my readers! The next chapter may take more time than the last, as I don't have much time on my hands lately. I may even lag a bit on all of the chapters, so I appreciate the waiting some of you might do!
Zutsokaki: I say scrap the story while you still can and save what little reputation you have left.
Brood: Grrrrss* I say scrap you while I still can and save what little patience I have left.
Zutsokaki: I think you are bluffing..
Brood: Try me.
Someone in Background: So fear. Brood with caffeine is here..
Brood: Everyone, this is Zutsokaki, our master cynic. He is a friend of a friend, and is making my life a living hel.I mean.offering his help to my noble cause..
Zutsokaki: Noble? Yeah right.. just give these poor people the story and torture and get it over with..
Brood:.. Fine.. hey! Torture?
CHAPTER 2
Anzu sighed as she rode in a taxi headed straight for the Domino City Docks. She looked around and saw many taxis and cars going in that same direction. In fact, the whole street was congested by the terrible traffic. For the five-hundredth time that day, she looked at her card, re reading one area.
/International competition..there must be at least 700 duelists there. It will take forever to get to the semi-finals../
After battling traffic for about another twenty minutes, they were barely five blocks ahead. Anzu reached inside of her wallet, paid her driver, and got out to walk to the docks herself, carrying her overlarge bag with her.
/I wonder how Yugi and the others are getting here. They must have figured out by now that driving is doing no good. What time is it..1:41!!!! I have to get there NOW!!/
Anzu quickly picked up the pace, running as fast as she could towards the docks (or as fast as she could with that huge bag.).
The docks started coming into sight after about seven minutes. She moved faster, trying to overcome the weight of her bag. She finally got there a few minutes later and stood on the outskirts of the huge and quickly growing crowd of mostly foreign duelists. Many of them were holding English and/or Japanese translation books of all shapes and sizes in their hands. A few had interpreters with them as well. There was a man standing on the deck of a very large silver and maroon cruise liner, called The Travesty, speaking to the crowd. She recognized the man as one of Pegasus's main security men. He was giving out announcements, with many interpreters standing close to him and repeating his words in other languages for the benefit of many there.
".and all of you who are champions from your own home countries past competitions will have deluxe suites on the A deck. When you get on the ship, go immediately to the Registration Desks set up on deck. There you will receive your room key and Duelist's ID, along with a pamphlet of rules and regulations for the island. The ID's in question are electronically advanced ID's that have your statistics as well as the quick stats of all of the other duelists on this island, like their name and age, along with any noteworthy Duel Monster's accomplishments. This ID also has a map of the island that pinpoints your exact location on the island. You will be told how to use them when you are on board. This cruise trip will take about three days, and there is much to do on the ship during this period. The daily activities include."
"Anzu! Over here!"
Anzu quickly turned around to become face to face with Joey, followed by Honda and Yugi.
"Heya Anzu," Joey said. "We were starting to worry that you hadn't made it!"
"Oh no Joey, I wouldn't miss this for the world and you know it!"
Yugi and Honda caught up at that point, smiling at her.
Yugi looked up at Honda and Anzu. "Are you guys ready for your first big tournament?"
Honda looked around at all of the duelists. "To tell ya the truth Yugi, I am scared out of my mind. This is way bigger than the Duelist Kingdom Championships. I just cant tell how I would do in this big of a tournament."
"Oh don't worry Honda. If you doubt yourself, you won't last the first round. I am sure that you will do fine. You just have to believe in your deck!"
"You are right, as always Yugi."
The security guard on the ship spoke a little louder. "And now everyone please prepare to board the ship! Wait..no shoving..hey, I SAID NO SHOVING!"
A small crowd had rushed the ship's steps and was now mostly stuck. The other security men on the bottom moved past the crowds to break up the shoving at the entrance. One girl with extremely long and wavy light green hair managed to wiggle free and run onto the steps, stumbling lightly, catching herself, and ran the rest of the way up. Pegasus' guard stopped her and asked her a question, and she replied pointing down at the small, yet rapidly breaking up, crowd. He nodded and let her go onto registration.
Yugi and the others watched all of this with interest, and started moving slowly towards the steps. Suddenly a section of the crowds were asked to back up quite a bit, and a second set of steps were lowered laboriously and slowly to the ground. This set of steps was a lot closer than the other one and they turned around towards that one. After they were on the ship, they walked up to the registration desk and received their things. The woman at registration looked up at Yugi at the mention of his name.
"Yugi Motou? The Duelist Kingdom Champion? Well, we should have known to see you here. You might want to watch out, since all of the other duelists might want to knock out all of the tough competition first. Well, here is your key and ID. You obviously have a suite, as well as Mister Joey behind you, for being a semi-finalist in Duelist Kingdom. And here are your ID's and keys, sirs and ma'am."
She handed the keys and ID's to Joey, Honda, and Anzu, and they walked away to the main dining hall. There were duelists everywhere in there, comparing cards simply by showing them to each other, therefore breaking the language barrier. They simply nodded at noteworthy cards, or shook their heads at others and showing off their cards. Some were even trading cards and building up their decks.
Yugi looked around at this with extreme excitement. "Wow! Can you guys believe how many duelists are here! And look at this dining hall! It's enormous!"
Everyone there agreed with Yugi as they took in the sights of the extremely large room. It didn't even fit the title "hall." There were marble pillars ornately carved with some of the more graceful Duel Monster's creatures, such as the Magician of Faith and the Harpy Lady. Joey looked at the Harpy Ladies with a little distaste, even though he had to admit that the carvings made them look more...nice...
The floors where of marble as well, and tables were made of an expensive looking soft white wood, and covered in silk tablecloths. Everyone in the room looked as if they were taking more care in their movements than they were on the dockside, obviously trying not to accidentally ruin something.
After they had marveled at the room long enough, they decided that they weren't hungry and went to see their rooms. On Deck A, they stopped at room 2, which was Yugi's room. He used his key on the carved French door and stepped in with his friends.
His room was very large with a king size bed and Oriental coverings. The furniture was Oriental as well. In fact, all of the furniture was Oriental. Inside of the room as well was an extremely large television and DVD player, with an extensive movie collection. On the other side of his room, there was a set of about three small steps and some very nice glass doors that led to personal deck space with some nice cushioned lawn furniture. There was a bathroom and a mini-bar with nice doors that connected them to the bedroom. After they were done gawking, they went into Joey's room, which was just the next door over, in room 3.
Joey's room was set up in the same fashion as Yugi's, only all of his furniture was Italian, with the couches and chairs black Italian leather. When Joey was done having fun with his remote buttons, they left and turned to find the stairs to the B deck, where Honda and Anzu were staying (and them feeling a little on the jealous side..). But as they started moving down the corridor, the door to room 5 opened and a girl rushed out quickly, ramming into Yugi and Joey. All three of them fell to the floor in confusion.
"Oh!" the girl said, very surprised. "I am very sorry, I vus not looking vare I vus going."
Joey and Yugi looked up at her. It was the light green haired girl that got shoved on the deck. She spoke with a very heavy French accent. Yugi stood up and offered her his hand. She took it and stood as well. Joey got up as well. She looked at them both.
"Do you know vare ze azzembly 'all is? I 'ave gotten a leetle confused and I do not remember vare it iz.." She looked at them with her large brown eyes and blinked.
Joey stared at her before he got his bearings. She wasn't much taller than Yugi, him only gaining height on her because of his hair. "It's uhh.. um..."
Yugi saved him. "It is on the main deck. All you have to do is go pass the dining hall by about five doors. They are very large doors, you can't miss them."
"Oh! Zank you very much monsieur! I am very grateful! But I must zay, zat all of ze doors do appear to be on ze large zide, do zey not?" She smiled and ran off up the stairs.
As she ran off, something inside of the Millennium Puzzle around Yugi's neck twitched. He quickly put his hand over it and turned back toward his friends.
Anzu looked up at Joey. "Joey..put your jaw back in..she couldn't have been very old anyway.."
Joey looked at her with confused eyes. "I don't think that a girl that young could be a Duel Monster's Champion. She came out of one of the suites, remember? I think she just looks young."
Yugi nodded. "He is right. I mean, look at me! You would never think I was in high school with you guys at first glance, right?"
Honda suddenly laughed. "Yeah Yugi, it's just because you're a shrimp!"
"Am not!!!!!" Yugi was indignant. Everyone else laughed good- naturedly at this, and Yugi caught on and laughed too after a minute.
After their little venture around the ship, and looking at Anzu and Honda's rooms, which were by most standards much better than they had expected, they stopped in the dining hall and ate their dinner. Since they were just a little late, the lines to the food were all but gone. The food was very nice, AND prepared by expert chefs and they ate enough of it to feel as if they needed a forklift to heft them out of the dining hall.
When they were done stuffing themselves silly, they occupied themselves with looking at everyone else in the room. They saw lots of interesting people, most looking over their cards. They saw a few in African robes, some in kimonos and others just looking like they didn't care what they wore. And there were some in long dark coats..with short brown hair..and cold eyes..and leather pants..
Yugi looked at him with a start. "Guys! Over there! It's Seto Kaiba!"
His friends looked in the direction Yugi was looking in. Kaiba was sitting alone towards the edge of the room, eating quietly and looking over a couple of his cards.
Anzu turned her head towards Yugi. "Well, he is one of the best Duel Monster's Champions, right? It's no real surprise he is here. But he had better leave us alone!"
"Yeah, I don't feel like being bothered by his likes. After all you did to help him, and all he can think about is still defeating you!" Honda looked away from Kaiba and pulled out his deck of cards.
"Hey!" Yugi said. "What kind of deck do you have there Honda?"
"Oh, it's just a quick something I put together. It's a really cool deck! I got all cool sorts of monsters in here, but mostly beasts. There are also some really good magic cards here that help clear the field for my attacks. I also put in a couple of brute force monsters just to throw off the opponent. There are also some really good trap cards also."
"Wow Honda, that sounds really neat! I think you will do very well. What about you Anzu?..Anzu..?"
Anzu had fallen asleep at the table, and was breathing quietly. Joey shook her and helped carry her to her room. Honda went into his as well. As Yugi and Joey went back to their rooms, Yugi was treated to Joey ranting about the foreign girls.
"I mean, whoa! Did you see that one Italian one sitting around in the hall! She was hot! And that Korean looking broad! Man, her body was just...WOW! Ooh, and that French girl! Kinda short, but had nice...."
Yugi looked over at Joey, not letting him finish that sentence. "Uh Joey, why don't we talk about something else now? Do you think Kaiba will try to knock me out of the tournament early? Or go after the weaker duelers first?"
"Neah Yuge. He wont get you first. I think he will want to save you for the cope de' grace if ya know what I mean."
"Yeah I do Joey, but your French is horrible!" Yugi laughed.
"Hey, do you think that French bird'll teach me some proper.."language of love?"
"Uh Joey, here are our rooms. I'll see you in the morning." He walked to his door, then stopped. "And the day I see you bag a chick is the day I eat my Puzzle!" He laughed and scampered into his room leaving Joey nothing but air to grab when he tried to snag Yugi for that.
"Hey Yuge! That was a blow below the belt there!" Then Joey just chuckled and went into his room for the night.
LATER
Yugi lay in his bed, stirring. His Millennium Puzzle kept bothering him, and he didn't know what Yami was up to.
/Yami! Yami! Can I get some sleep?/
//I am sorry Yugi, but I cant seem to rest here....//
/Any reason? Something I can help with?/
//Not that I know of. But I feel something....something I haven't felt in awhile, but I can't place it. I get the feeling that something big is happening, or will happen....//
/Well, things like this seem to always happen to us anyway....try and rest, okay?/
//Alright....for you aibou, I'll try. Good night.//
/Good night./
//Uhhh...hey. You won't really eat me, will you?//
Brood: Hey! Was this one long enough? I will continue the boat ride in the next chapter and a surprise! So yay for my readers! The next chapter may take more time than the last, as I don't have much time on my hands lately. I may even lag a bit on all of the chapters, so I appreciate the waiting some of you might do!
Zutsokaki: I say scrap the story while you still can and save what little reputation you have left.
Brood: Grrrrss* I say scrap you while I still can and save what little patience I have left.
Zutsokaki: I think you are bluffing..
Brood: Try me.
