"Can you believe that?! Kaiba decimated that guy." John said as he sat in the back room of the Game Shop with Tea and Sammy along with him. Both women had just finished watching the duel along with John.
"Oooo, that Kaiba is SOOOO dreamy." Sammy said with a laugh as she watched the screen.
John laughed as he handed her a glass of water. "Here, cool yourself down before you catch the rest of us on fire."
Laughing softly Tea stood up and went about cleaning up the duel area where everybody had crowded into the shop. Wrappers and fliers and cans were all over the place but she didn't mind. It had been an exciting series of duels and she knew that John was going to triumph and get the invitation to the Virtual Reality Tournament. She believed in him just like she believed in a red and blond spiky haired boy long ago. Only she hoped that John wouldn't disappear like Yugi did.
She brushes away a tear and smiles when she heard John and Samantha arguing with each other in the back room. They were so cute together. Shaking her head she smiles and turned to clean up the table behind her when she lets out a loud scream. A figure dressed in a flowing black cloak and wearing a porcelain mask of tragedy on their face. The one behind him of the same height had the mask of comedy on their face. In a swirl of the black cloak they ran out of the room with a struggling Tea.
"Say uncle!" Sammy said with a laugh as she pinned John to the floor.
"Never! You'll never get me to-" John stopped when he heard the loud scream coming from Tea in the front of the store.
Both Sammy and John hopped to their feet and ran out of the back room and into the front of the store. They looked around frantically, calling out Tea's name but not getting anything in response. As they moved towards the front of the store, they found evidence of the struggle. Walking over to a table, they found a note pinned to it with a knife and two large duel disks sitting next to it.
"My god. What happened?" Sammy asked as she looked at two large duel disks.
Shaking his head, John plucked out the knife and examined it. There was nothing special about it. It was a black handled knife with a silver hand guard and a six-inch blade on it that reached up, moving narrower and narrower until it stopped at a fine point at the very tip. Taking up the letter he began to read it out loud to her:
" 'If you want to see Tea Gardner alive, put on this duel disk and meet us at the docks in thirty minutes. Bring Seto Kaiba Jr. but NO ONE else. If you do, Ms. Gardner will die rather horridly. It is time that the Egyptian God cards returned to their rightful owner. Signed, Comedy and Tragedy.' " John said as he threw down the letter on the table. Quickly he picked up one of the duel disks and slipped it on his arm and inserted his deck.
"Wait, John you're not actually going out there are you? These people could be killers." Sammy said as she looked at the knife on the table.
"I have to help Tea. I can't take the risk of losing her. She was my first friend when I moved here Sammy. And I'm not going to give that up with out a fight." sighing he looked at the duel disk on his arm and leans over, kissing her forehead. "Get Kaiba Jr. on the phone. Tell him to meet me at the docks and tell him what's happened. I have his duel disk. It's morbid, but it looks like we're both going to have to duel these idiots to save Tea's life."
Sammy sighed and nodded her head. "A-Alright. Alright. I'll call him. John, please be careful."
"I will." he nods as he runs out of the store and down the sidewalk.
Holding the second duel disk under his arm he runs as fast as he can, dodging people and constantly checking his watch. He had 30 minutes to get there and he was going to get there to save Tea. Hopefully Kaiba wouldn't take this as some joke and decline the duel.
As he ran, he could catch the scent of the ocean hitting his nostrils and it was indeed invigorating. But that's not what he was here for. Tea's life was in danger and he had to do all he could to help her. Running around the corner of one of the dock offices, John slowly to a powered walk as he moved along the wooden dock. He still had 10 minutes to spare, which was good, because he wanted to get this over with.
Upon reaching the last pier, John stopped when he heard laughter coming from the pier's end. There were two cloaked people with porcelain masks on their faces and duel disks on their arms. They had to be whoever these Tragedy and Comedy people were. Walking towards them, he stopped when he heard yelling. It was Tea!
"Tea!!" John yelled as he looked over the side of the pier.
"Here! I'm down here!" She yelled and was tied to one of the large wooden posts. The tide and come in slightly and risen up to cover her up to her waist.
"Argh! Are you two insane?! What do you want?!" John asked in his anger.
Tragedy laughed along, the voice sounding very feminine. "Hahaha. Awww, poor little American. Clueless one aren't you?"
Her partner, Comedy only laughed as well. "He must be. Where's Kaiba?"
"He's coming. If you want a duel, fine, but let Tea go." John said with a growl, holding up his duel disk and ready for the fight.
"Ha ha ha! Nope. Sorry we can't do that." Comedy said with a hint of cockiness in his voice. "She's our insurance to make sure that you and Kaiba play far."
"That's right." Tragedy continued. "Our terms of the duel are simple. We win, we take the Egyptian God cards from Kaiba Corporation, Kaiba's own Millennium eye and your deck. You win, you get your little Game Shop owner's life back. I think it's a fair trade."
"You both are insane monsters." John growled again.
"Maybe." said Comedy with a laugh. "But this is our duel. We make the terms, the rules and even the outcome. We hold all the cards."
"So prepare to lose." Tragedy said and held her duel disk ready.
"No, you two are the ones who are going to pay!" yelled out a mysterious voice.
Suddenly, out of no where, a helicopter came speeding around and Kaiba jumped off the ledge and the helicopter took off. A great look of anger was on his face. And that was not a look to be messed with.
"Kaiba let her go now!" he demanded with great anger.
The two masked people only laughed. John walked over and gave Kaiba his duel disk. It looked like a transformed look of his father's old version. Kaiba put it on and walked up closer to the two.
"You want the cards, my item, and his deck, for her life? What makes you think I don't have cops all over waiting to shoot you down right now?"
"Because we know you are a man of honor Seto Kaiba Jr." said the man with the comedy mask.
"Yes, besides, we have the only key to unlock the shackles that hold Tea Gardner. So, if you do end up taking us away, you'll never find it." the one in the comedy mask laughed out.
"We'll beat you two no matter what!" screamed John.
"Don't be so hasty John. I already know where the key is."
"You..you do?"
"Yes, but let us play this game for a bit. I need to let some anger out."
He shoved his shuffled deck into the deck slot on the dueling disk and pulled out five cards. He didn't even bother to look at them.
"Who goes first?"
"We'll let your friend John go first." said Tragedy
"Fine. I'll go first. But you better prepare to hand over that key when you lose!"
Kaiba folded his arms after the mini holo-projectors from his duel disk had shot off to different places.
"Give them hell John."
John nodded and drew his five cards.
The pair, Comedy and Tragedy, only scoffed and laughed as they saw John pull out his five cards from his deck. He looked over them carefully as he eyed the pair of villains that were across the way of him. But on the other hand, he was a little excited that he was in a Tag Team Duel with Seto Kaiba Jr.. But remembering the circumstances they were in, he looked down at his deck carefully.
"Fine. I'll go first. I play on card face down and I played Overdrive in attack mode!" he said and placed the two cards face down. One card appeared in front of him in the Magic/Trap field while the other one was his Overdrive an all-terrain vehicle with a heavy machine gun facing out the front. He turned and gave a thumbs up to Kaiba.
Nodding his head, Kaiba looked down at the cards in his had for the first time and smirked. "I play two cards. Harpy Lady. And I equip her with Cyber Shield, raising her attack points to 1800."
Both Comedy and Tragedy looked across at the monsters that would surely be waiting to mince and dice them. Tragedy was first as she looked down to her five cards and laughed softly. She nodded to Comedy and then turned back to the opponents in front of them.
"I play two cards as well. I play La Jinn, the Mystical Genie of the Lamp and I equip him with Dark Energy and increase his attack points to 2100!" she smiles triumphantly.
"Good move Tragedy. And it's my turn!" He looked down at the five cards in his own hand and laughs loudly. "My turn! I play three cards. I play one card face down and I play Insect Barrier and Rainbow Flower in attack mode."
John was obviously confused by this move and didn't understand just what Comedy was doing. In had an Insect Barrier up but none of his monsters were insect monsters. He had a feel that whatever his facedown card was some kind of a trap card that would hurt him. Comedy was obviously trying to lure him to attack his Rainbow Flower. Pulling another card from his deck he nodded. It was time to see just what that card was.
"Alright Comedy. Since I don't trust your face-down card I will play this!" he plays his card face-up on the field. "De-Spell! Destroy that Insect Barrier!"
"WHAT?!" Comedy growled as his Insect Barrier was destroyed. He was going to use DNA Surgery to change on their opponents' monsters into Insect's so that they couldn't attack him.
"Now I offer my Overdrive as Tribute and I play Twin-Headed Fire Dragon in attack mode!" he grins as he puts his Overdrive in the graveyard pile and summons his Fire Dragon. The Overdrive turned to smoke and suddenly a large two headed, smoking dragon appeared. "Twin-Headed Fire Dragon! Attack his Rainbow Flower!"
"NO!!" Comedy shielded his eyes as the burst of flames came towards him. His Rainbow Flower's 500 atk was nothing compared to John's Twin-Headed Fire Dragon's 2200 atk. The plant was reduced to nothing but ash and he growled in anger. His Life Points went down to 6300 while everyone else's remained at 8000.
Kaiba laughed as he looked over at them. "See the pair that you are up against. I say that you quit now and just give us the key to free Tea!" Looking at the cards in his hand and at the powered up LaJinn in front of him. "Time to take that thing down. I play Harpie's Feather Duster to destroy your Dark Energy card and I equip my Harpy Lady with the Axe of Despair, increasing her attack points even more to 2800! Harpy Lady! Destroy LaJinn!"
Tragedy shouted out as her LaJinn was sliced in half by the very powered up Harpy Lady. She gasped as her Life Points were taken down to 7000. As it was her turn, she pulled a card from her deck and grinned. "It's over now! I play Shallow Grave! Each player must pull on card from our Graveyard and place it in face-down defense mode on the field."
She grinned as she watched Comedy put his Rainbow Flower in defense mode and John put his Overdrive in the same position. Kaiba had no monsters in the graveyard so the effect didn't hurt him. "Now I take you down Kaiba! I offer my LaJinn as tribute and play Summoned Skull in attack mode! Plus I equip it with my other magic card, Sword of Dark Destruction! Increasing its attack points to 2900! Now! Summoned Skull! Destroy his Harpy Lady!!"
The large demon looking monsters looked truly grotesque as it stared down at the powered up Harpy Lady. Hold the sword in its hand, Summoned Skull surged with electricity and charged at Harpy Lady, ready to destroy the monster and leave Kaiba without a monster to defend his Life Points. Just as the monster was to slash down with its blade, John suddenly yelled out loud.
"Overdrive! Defend Kaiba's Harpy Lady!" he shouted out.
The ATV screeched its wheels as it rolled at high speed in front of Kaiba. The vehicle skidded to a stop in front of the Harpy Lady and was destroyed in an instant as the Summoned Skull's sword slashed straight through it, sending its sparks and pieces flying everywhere in front of them.
"What?! I had that Harpy Lady destroyed!" Tragedy said with a yell.
Kaiba turned and looked over to John with a slightly confused look on his face. "John..."
"I did it cause I'm going to need you in this fight as much as you're going to need me. Can't have you losing so many life points so early in the fight." he smiled and gave Kaiba thumbs up.
Comedy only narrowed his eyes as he turned to John. "You sentimental fool! Worry about your own monsters!" He pulled a card from his deck and grinned as he played it on the field. "I played Petit Moth in defense mode! AND I equip with Cocoon of Evolution! And I play a field card, Chorus of Sanctuary which increases my Cocoon to defense of 2500! And...I play one magic card that you're REALLY going to hate Kaiba! I play Tailor to the Fickle! It lets me move one equip card to another monster. So I chose to give your Axe of Despair to Tragedy's Summoned Skull, increasing it to 3900!"
John mouth went wide as he looked down at his hand. He had nothing to destroy that Summoned Skull or Cocoon of Evolution with. "Argh. I pass. I have nothing I can play." he looked over at Kaiba and sighed. "I really hope that you have an idea."