Chapter 12: Information
The Base of Millennium Mountain: Day before the Finals
Ramsey woke up with a kink in his neck. Michael had already gotten up before he did. Michael was shuffling through his deck slipping in some new cards and taking out some others.
Ramsey got up and popped his neck. "Ow."
"Hey, your up." Michael said.
"Yeah. Anything happen while I was asleep?" Ramsey asked.
"Actually something did happen." Michael answered. "Your never gonna guess who I saw earlier."
"Who?" Ramsey asked.
"Jacob Champion." Michael said.
"Champions here?" Ramsey asked.
"Yeah, and he's in the finals." Michael answered.
"The finals huh?" Ramsey said. "Well he must have gotten a lot better since I last dueled him."
"Either that or he hid in the bushes until there was only seven other duelists left." Michael replied.
"Yeah." Ramsey said with a chuckle. "Have you seen anybody else?"
"I saw Super Arc." Michael answered.
"Oh yeah." Ramsey said. "Well he must be eager to get you in a rematch."
"Yeah. Well I'm rearranging my deck so I'm prepared for tomorrow." Michael said.
"I should probably do that too." Ramsey said as he picked up his deck. "Should I use Exodia? I don't really have the deck for it."
"Well you could put it in when you go into a match you think will be tough." Michael said.
"Well I'm just gonna take it out for now. However, one thing I won't take out is this." Ramsey said holding Osiris in his hand.
"How did you get that card anyways?" Michael asked.
"Well on our way back into the caves me and Tragic bumped into each other. Some cards fell on the ground and I thought they were mine. However they were Tragic's cards. I picked up Osiris, Infinite Cards, and Prohibition."
"Huh." Michael said as he stared off to the mountain.
"So I see you lucked your way to the finals." A voice said from behind.
"Hey Champion." Ramsey said.
"How did you know it was me?" Jacob asked.
"I'd know that voice anywhere." Ramsey answered.
"I heard about your loss to Curenga." Jacob said. "And I'm surprised that you are even here after that. I mean you were upstaged by a weakling."
"Yeah well I got back at him." Ramsey said. "And added five special cards to my collection."
"You mean Exodia." Jacob said. "Yeah I know. Joshua told me."
"Joshua?" Ramsey asked. "Wait you don't mean Curenga's friend, Joshua."
"Actually yes I do mean that." Jacob said. "And he told me he's in the finals as well."
"So, what do you want us to do about it?" Michael asked.
"Well actually I was wondering if either of you would like to have an exhibition before the finals tomorrow." Jacob said. "So how about it."
"You take him Michael, I'm gonna take a walk." Ramsey said as he walked into the forest area. "See ya."
"Alright Sunter." Jacob said. "Are you ready to face my ultimate deck that I crushed twelve duelists with?"
"Wait." Michael said. "You weren't hiding in the bushes?"
"What?" Jacob asked.
"Never mind, lets get this over with." Michael answered.
"Alright, but I warn you, my deck is far greater than it was when me and Ramsey dueled in high school." Jacob said.
"Well I guess I'm in for a surprise." Michael said.
"Oh a very big one actually." Jacob said as he placed his deck in his duel disk. "After you."
Michael- 8000 Jacob- 8000
"Fine." Michael said as he drew his opening hand. "For my first turn I will just set one monster face down."
"I will do the same." Jacob said.
"I play the magic card Gravekeeper's Servant." Michael said. "Now every time you attack you must discard the card on top of your deck to the graveyard. Now I will set one more monster face down and end my turn."
"Ok." Jacob said drawing his card. "I play Raigeki to destroy all the monsters on your side of the field."
"Is that all?" Michael asked.
"No." Jacob said. "I will activate this card, Harpies Feather Duster, to destroy the magic and trap cards on you side of the field. Finally I will summon the Killer Needle (1200/1000) and equip it with Insect Armor with Laser Cannon, to raise its attack power by 700. Now with your field empty I can attack you directly."
Michael- 6100 Jacob- 8000
"Looks like you have gotten better." Michael said. "Your still not good enough to beat me."
The Other Side of the Mountain: Some five minutes later.
Ramsey walked along the edge of Millennium Mountain's base with his hands in his pockets. He looked over to the trees to see a man in a white coat sleeping up against a tree. Ramsey paused and looked at the man. He thought maybe he should go over and say hi or something, but Ramsey just spaced it and kept walking.
"You know people like you do well in life really." The man said. "You think before you speak. That shows you're not a fool." The man got up and walked over to Ramsey. "The names Richard Vaughn. You can call me Vaughn if you want." Vaughn said as he held out his hand.
"Ramsey Keya." Ramsey replied as he shook Vaughn's hand. "So are you in the finals too?"
"Yes I am." Vaughn answered.
"Well I look forward to facing you." Ramsey said.
"Me too." Vaughn replied.
"Well I suppose I should get back to my friend. He's dueling my old high school nemesis right now." Ramsey said as he began to walk away. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"You know, he's after you." Vaughn said.
"Who?" Ramsey asked.
"Sennen." Vaughn answered. "It's all because of that staff you have. He wants it."
"Why?" Ramsey asked.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Vaughn answered.
"Come on. I'll listen to the story, no matter how far fetched it sounds." Ramsey said.
"Have a seat." Vaughn said as the both sat down. "Ok, It all started five thousand years ago."
Flashback:
Five thousand years ago, duel monsters was an ancient Egyptian game played by the people, the sorcerers, and even the Pharaoh. There was a catch however. The magic, the traps, the monsters, they were all real. There was a bit of controversy because most of the time the people that owned the monsters, couldn't control them. So the monsters fled and caused quite a bit of destruction.
So the Pharaoh did the only thing he could do, and after a huge battle with an evil sorcerer he locked the game in a place called the shadow realm. However every lock has a key. And the key, or keys were the mystical Millennium Items. These are the keys to the shadow realm.
Around sixty or seventy years ago, Maximillion Pegasus remade the game into a card game. Thus the game of duel monsters was reborn. Pegasus was a bearer of the Millennium Eye. This Item allowed him to look deep into the mind of a person, which he used to his advantage several times. A few years after he created the game he made a tournament. This tournament was called Duelist Kingdom.
Duelist Kingdom gathered duelists from all over the world to see who was the King of Games. Yugi Motou, the bearer of the Millennium Puzzle, won this tournament by defeating Pegasus. Shortly after the duel Pegasus' Millennium Eye was stolen. Who stole it remains a mystery.
A few months afterwards, Seto Kaiba, CEO and owner of Kaiba Corp. threw his own duel monsters tournament. This tournament was mainly focused on him obtaining the three Eygptian God Cards. He got as far as trying to obtain one from Yugi Motou but failed. Yugi went on to take the third God Card from Marik Ishtar, who desired to rule the world as Pharaoh. He failed of course.
What after that, I'm still in the dark about. But I do know that after Yugi died the spirit of the Millennium Ring obtained all the Millennium Items and tried to open the door but there was something wrong. You see the person that opened the door had to give his life. The spirit of the ring wasn't ready to make this sacrifice so he refused. The Millennium Items were shattered and the door was opened. However there was another door behind it. And then emerged the Centennial Items emerged.
End Flashback:
"They were scattered across the world and ever since then they have remained mysterious." Vaughn continued. "And now Milell has found a way around that whole sacrifice obstacle. He plans to have one of his mind slaves do it for him. But I intend to stop him, that game was locked away for one reason. To remain locked away."
"So you're saying that if he gets his hands on all the Items he's gonna open that door." Ramsey asked. "What happens after that?"
"Well if he gets the third Egyptian God Card, he will rule all basically." Vaughn said.
"But, I have the third Egyptian God Card." Ramsey said as he shuffled through his deck and pulled out Osiris.
"Well then that's one more thing he'll be wanting from you." Vaughn said.
"Well this is all too weird." Ramsey said.
"I told you that you wouldn't believe me." Vaughn said.
"No, for some reason I actually believe you." Ramsey said. "Whatever. You got to fill Michael in on this, he's got one of those Items too. So why don't you hang out with us for the night."
"Alright." Vaughn said as the two walked back toward where Ramsey left Michael and Jacob.
The Base of Millennium Mountain: Day before the Finals
Ramsey woke up with a kink in his neck. Michael had already gotten up before he did. Michael was shuffling through his deck slipping in some new cards and taking out some others.
Ramsey got up and popped his neck. "Ow."
"Hey, your up." Michael said.
"Yeah. Anything happen while I was asleep?" Ramsey asked.
"Actually something did happen." Michael answered. "Your never gonna guess who I saw earlier."
"Who?" Ramsey asked.
"Jacob Champion." Michael said.
"Champions here?" Ramsey asked.
"Yeah, and he's in the finals." Michael answered.
"The finals huh?" Ramsey said. "Well he must have gotten a lot better since I last dueled him."
"Either that or he hid in the bushes until there was only seven other duelists left." Michael replied.
"Yeah." Ramsey said with a chuckle. "Have you seen anybody else?"
"I saw Super Arc." Michael answered.
"Oh yeah." Ramsey said. "Well he must be eager to get you in a rematch."
"Yeah. Well I'm rearranging my deck so I'm prepared for tomorrow." Michael said.
"I should probably do that too." Ramsey said as he picked up his deck. "Should I use Exodia? I don't really have the deck for it."
"Well you could put it in when you go into a match you think will be tough." Michael said.
"Well I'm just gonna take it out for now. However, one thing I won't take out is this." Ramsey said holding Osiris in his hand.
"How did you get that card anyways?" Michael asked.
"Well on our way back into the caves me and Tragic bumped into each other. Some cards fell on the ground and I thought they were mine. However they were Tragic's cards. I picked up Osiris, Infinite Cards, and Prohibition."
"Huh." Michael said as he stared off to the mountain.
"So I see you lucked your way to the finals." A voice said from behind.
"Hey Champion." Ramsey said.
"How did you know it was me?" Jacob asked.
"I'd know that voice anywhere." Ramsey answered.
"I heard about your loss to Curenga." Jacob said. "And I'm surprised that you are even here after that. I mean you were upstaged by a weakling."
"Yeah well I got back at him." Ramsey said. "And added five special cards to my collection."
"You mean Exodia." Jacob said. "Yeah I know. Joshua told me."
"Joshua?" Ramsey asked. "Wait you don't mean Curenga's friend, Joshua."
"Actually yes I do mean that." Jacob said. "And he told me he's in the finals as well."
"So, what do you want us to do about it?" Michael asked.
"Well actually I was wondering if either of you would like to have an exhibition before the finals tomorrow." Jacob said. "So how about it."
"You take him Michael, I'm gonna take a walk." Ramsey said as he walked into the forest area. "See ya."
"Alright Sunter." Jacob said. "Are you ready to face my ultimate deck that I crushed twelve duelists with?"
"Wait." Michael said. "You weren't hiding in the bushes?"
"What?" Jacob asked.
"Never mind, lets get this over with." Michael answered.
"Alright, but I warn you, my deck is far greater than it was when me and Ramsey dueled in high school." Jacob said.
"Well I guess I'm in for a surprise." Michael said.
"Oh a very big one actually." Jacob said as he placed his deck in his duel disk. "After you."
Michael- 8000 Jacob- 8000
"Fine." Michael said as he drew his opening hand. "For my first turn I will just set one monster face down."
"I will do the same." Jacob said.
"I play the magic card Gravekeeper's Servant." Michael said. "Now every time you attack you must discard the card on top of your deck to the graveyard. Now I will set one more monster face down and end my turn."
"Ok." Jacob said drawing his card. "I play Raigeki to destroy all the monsters on your side of the field."
"Is that all?" Michael asked.
"No." Jacob said. "I will activate this card, Harpies Feather Duster, to destroy the magic and trap cards on you side of the field. Finally I will summon the Killer Needle (1200/1000) and equip it with Insect Armor with Laser Cannon, to raise its attack power by 700. Now with your field empty I can attack you directly."
Michael- 6100 Jacob- 8000
"Looks like you have gotten better." Michael said. "Your still not good enough to beat me."
The Other Side of the Mountain: Some five minutes later.
Ramsey walked along the edge of Millennium Mountain's base with his hands in his pockets. He looked over to the trees to see a man in a white coat sleeping up against a tree. Ramsey paused and looked at the man. He thought maybe he should go over and say hi or something, but Ramsey just spaced it and kept walking.
"You know people like you do well in life really." The man said. "You think before you speak. That shows you're not a fool." The man got up and walked over to Ramsey. "The names Richard Vaughn. You can call me Vaughn if you want." Vaughn said as he held out his hand.
"Ramsey Keya." Ramsey replied as he shook Vaughn's hand. "So are you in the finals too?"
"Yes I am." Vaughn answered.
"Well I look forward to facing you." Ramsey said.
"Me too." Vaughn replied.
"Well I suppose I should get back to my friend. He's dueling my old high school nemesis right now." Ramsey said as he began to walk away. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"You know, he's after you." Vaughn said.
"Who?" Ramsey asked.
"Sennen." Vaughn answered. "It's all because of that staff you have. He wants it."
"Why?" Ramsey asked.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Vaughn answered.
"Come on. I'll listen to the story, no matter how far fetched it sounds." Ramsey said.
"Have a seat." Vaughn said as the both sat down. "Ok, It all started five thousand years ago."
Flashback:
Five thousand years ago, duel monsters was an ancient Egyptian game played by the people, the sorcerers, and even the Pharaoh. There was a catch however. The magic, the traps, the monsters, they were all real. There was a bit of controversy because most of the time the people that owned the monsters, couldn't control them. So the monsters fled and caused quite a bit of destruction.
So the Pharaoh did the only thing he could do, and after a huge battle with an evil sorcerer he locked the game in a place called the shadow realm. However every lock has a key. And the key, or keys were the mystical Millennium Items. These are the keys to the shadow realm.
Around sixty or seventy years ago, Maximillion Pegasus remade the game into a card game. Thus the game of duel monsters was reborn. Pegasus was a bearer of the Millennium Eye. This Item allowed him to look deep into the mind of a person, which he used to his advantage several times. A few years after he created the game he made a tournament. This tournament was called Duelist Kingdom.
Duelist Kingdom gathered duelists from all over the world to see who was the King of Games. Yugi Motou, the bearer of the Millennium Puzzle, won this tournament by defeating Pegasus. Shortly after the duel Pegasus' Millennium Eye was stolen. Who stole it remains a mystery.
A few months afterwards, Seto Kaiba, CEO and owner of Kaiba Corp. threw his own duel monsters tournament. This tournament was mainly focused on him obtaining the three Eygptian God Cards. He got as far as trying to obtain one from Yugi Motou but failed. Yugi went on to take the third God Card from Marik Ishtar, who desired to rule the world as Pharaoh. He failed of course.
What after that, I'm still in the dark about. But I do know that after Yugi died the spirit of the Millennium Ring obtained all the Millennium Items and tried to open the door but there was something wrong. You see the person that opened the door had to give his life. The spirit of the ring wasn't ready to make this sacrifice so he refused. The Millennium Items were shattered and the door was opened. However there was another door behind it. And then emerged the Centennial Items emerged.
End Flashback:
"They were scattered across the world and ever since then they have remained mysterious." Vaughn continued. "And now Milell has found a way around that whole sacrifice obstacle. He plans to have one of his mind slaves do it for him. But I intend to stop him, that game was locked away for one reason. To remain locked away."
"So you're saying that if he gets his hands on all the Items he's gonna open that door." Ramsey asked. "What happens after that?"
"Well if he gets the third Egyptian God Card, he will rule all basically." Vaughn said.
"But, I have the third Egyptian God Card." Ramsey said as he shuffled through his deck and pulled out Osiris.
"Well then that's one more thing he'll be wanting from you." Vaughn said.
"Well this is all too weird." Ramsey said.
"I told you that you wouldn't believe me." Vaughn said.
"No, for some reason I actually believe you." Ramsey said. "Whatever. You got to fill Michael in on this, he's got one of those Items too. So why don't you hang out with us for the night."
"Alright." Vaughn said as the two walked back toward where Ramsey left Michael and Jacob.