Well, here's another episode for the fans of my book to eat into. To tell
you the truth, this was actually the very first episode of my fanfic, not
"The Beginning, Part 1". You see, one fateful evening back in June 2002, I
finished watching one of my favorite Yu-gi-oh! episodes, and decided that
it would be kinda cool to write a fanfic based off my favorite show on
television (well, one of them, I love Buffy a lot too, but we won't go off
into that). I sat down and began typing some random things. Of course, the
"beta" version of this episode and book wasn't nearly as developed as it is
now, because I hadn't put much thought into it. I was just doing something
after the Yu-gi-oh! episode went off. Heh, I never thought it would turn
into this! Just thought you might've wanted to know that. I had to do some
major editing, fixing, transmogrifying, remodifying, and remaking to the
episode to set it up in conjuction with the storylines developed, the
storylines that will develop, and to bring it up-to-par with the previous
episodes. Also, as I always say at the closing of my comments, I hope you
enjoy this episode! One more thing: Do forgive me if there's any plot holes
I might've accidentally missed, or any typos.
Disclaimer (I've been forgetting to do this a lot lately, LOL [laugh out loud]): I don't own characters from Yu-gi-oh, Cardcaptors or Pokemon. I'm simply borrowing them for my fanfic. These cartoons belong to 4 Kids Entertainment, Kids Wb, and whoever else.
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Duelists of The Future- Season 1- Episode 13, 'The Sub-Competition Rages On' (4/21/2003)
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Brock and Tristan had left the medical center and were heading back to their campsite. The campsite wasn't too far away from the center, so they got there in about eight minutes. While approaching the tints, Brock's stomach started grumbling. Tristan looked at him and laughed. "Sounds like somebody's hungry," he spoke.
"Well, I haven't had anything to eat all day. Tristan, whatever happened to that basket with the fruit you had collected from around the island? I could sure use some strawberries or oranges right now," Brock said.
"The fruit basket's in my tint, I'll run and get it," Tristan told him, then took off toward the tint. Brock watched him go, then leisurely walked over to the edge of the lake and sighed heavily. He was still worried about what could happen to him. What did the inscription mean?
(Flashback)
"Disturb not the ancient artifact within, For the cursed object will only bring complications to him who touch. This warning goes out to all people who seek the artifact, Do not listen to your greed, But, instead, take heed."
(End Flashback)
Brock hated that he ever jumped in the lake. He never would've stumbled upon the sunken plane in the first place if he hadn't taken that good, underwater swim. He wished that he decided to find another way to give his mind a rest, like playing a game, or something. Taking a swim to relieve the stress of winning the tournament for his father only wound up putting more stress on his shoulders. Speaking of which, what if his dad found out about this incident? Would he still love him, or would he consider him a freak of nature, disown him, and throw him away? Brock shuddered at the thought. The boy was pretty scared, not only for his own sake, but also because of the things mentioned. What if all his family seperated themselves from him and stopped loving him? Brock shook his head and sighed heavily. He turned away from the lake and walked over to a nearby tree. He carefully climbed up the tree and sat on a branch. He wanted to get his mind off of this current dillema, so he transported his dueling glove out of his device and looked to see how many stars he had. There was six stars in the star shaped holes. So far, he was doing pretty well. Just nine more star chips and he was tournament bound. After he won the tournament, he would receive 100 million dollars which he would use to pay for his father's surgeries needed to heal his injuries. And an extra bonus is that his family wouldn't be poor and living in a house made for 5 people anymore. After he won the prize, him and his family would be livin' large. Brock started to think about what he would do with his share of the money. He'd probably purchase a Gamestation at long last, then he'd buy plenty of expensive chains and jewelry, go on a shopping spree for games and stuff, and possibly get his hair dyed a dark red or green for a different look. Possibly. Tristan came back out of tint with the fruit basket in tow.
"Hey, I got the basket. And, what are you doing up in that tree?" he wondered.
"There wasn't any where else to sit, and besides, the wind up here feels great," Brock replied, then said, "Hey, toss me an orange." Tristan reached into the basket and grabbed an orange, then threw it at Brock. Brock caught it with ease and bit down into it, savoring the sweet, delicous taste. Suddenly, a voice spoke to him which startled him.
"Uh, excuse me?" the feminine voice said.
Brock turned his head back to see who it was. Tristan also looked to see who it was. A beautiful blonde girl around their age stood there. She was wearing a blue jean miniskirt and a white midriff. Her long blonde hair flowed down to her mid-back, and it was all spiraled gorgeously. Her hair was decked out as diamonds also flowed through the spiraled hair, which shined and sparkled in the sunlight. Three diamond necklaces flowed down her neck, and her arms were decorated with diamond bracelets and rings. It was an amazing sight to Brock.
"Wow.. check out the walking jewelry store..." Brock's eyes stared into hers a bit dreamily. He caught himself and shook his head. "Uh, can I help you in any way, miss?" he asked.
"I was wondering if, uh, you knew where a nearby garden was," she told him.
"Um, there's one on the other side of the lake," he said and pointed to it.
"Oh! I see it, thanks!" she said and began to walk away.
"Glad to be of help," Brock replied and bit another chunk of the orange off. He chewed it while watching her walk away. Suddenly, she stopped and turned back around to face him.
"Actually, I didn't want to know where the garden was, I came here to challenge you to a duel!" the girl demanded, then revealed her white dueling glove (which was plated in diamonds) and slipped it on.
"You? Challenge me to a duel? What's your name, princess?"
"My name is Yolanda Richards, what's yours?"
"My name's Brock Mowry," he answered, then started to remeber something. "Hey, aren't you that girl that guy in the tournament got a flawless victory on?"
Yolanda scoffed, then pointed her finger at him. "Yeah, that's me, who cares?! What's your answer? Get up and face down your challenge. Be brave! Are you gonna face me like a man and give me a duel? Or are you too scared, are you gonna chicken out?" Yolanda inquired.
Brock slowly climbed down out of the tree, then approached her. He stared into her eyes, but he was serious now. "Hey, I'm not a chicken! Allright, I accept your challenge. If you want a duel, you'll get a duel. How many stars?" Brock pulled out his green dueling glove and slipped it tightly around his hand. Perhaps this was a good way to get his mind off of... you know what.
"Three stars," she confirmed. She transported a diamond plated portable dueling console out of her S.C.T and wrapped it around her arm firmly.
"Gotta put diamonds on it too? You're a walking jewelry store," he commented.
"Yes, and I'm proud of it. Now, whip out your dueling device and let's duel!" she shouted a bit bossily and impatiently. Brock whipped out his gold duel console and strapped it onto his arm properly. Brock grabbed his deck of cards out of his pants pocket, placed it into the deck keeper and powered up his system, as did Yolanda.
"Ready?" Brock called out.
"A little slow, if you ask me, but I'm ready," Yolanda answered. "Now let's duel!" they both shouted simutaneously.
***Brock's/Yolanda's Life Points- 2000***
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After running out of the cave, Misty sprinted back to her campsite with tears forming in her eyes. When she arrived, she sunk to the ground and began crying her heart out. [I failed. I failed my sisters. I didn't even earn enough star chips to enter into the tournament. That stupid tramp. She tied me up, forced me to battle her and took my stars from me; now there's nothing I can do to help my sisters. I let them down. Now they'll never get that expensive treatment that would save their lives. Instead, they are... they are going to... die.] Misty cried even harder when she thought about what was going to transpire. What she didn't know is that the crying attracted someone to her location.
"Misty, hey, is that you?" the person asked.
Misty turned around to face the person and it turned out to be her old friend Joey. "Joey, what are you doing here?" Misty quickly wiped the tears off of her face.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Joey asked her with concern showing in his voice.
"Nothing.. I'm just..."
"Crying for nothing?" Joey interrupted her. He walked over next to her and sat down. "You can tell me, I promise to keep whatever it is a secret."
"That's really nice... Joey, but I really don't want to talk about it," Misty said, but Joey wouldn't accept this. "C'mon, you can talk to me. It might help you if you tell someone," Joey put his hand on her back and rubbed it gently.
Misty sighed heavily. [Should I tell him? It isn't really none of his concern, but Joey is my best friend, an old friend, to add. He's really concerned about me, and besides, it might make me feel better if I actually talked about it. Maybe, just maybe, he might have some way of helping me.] She then spoke, "Okay, I'll talk." There was a pause for moment before Misty continued. "I lost all my star chips."
"What?!" Joey gasped in surprise. "How? What happened?"
"This whore named Mai, which I was starting to be pretty good friends with, made me fight an all-out duel for everything and she won, so she took all my star chips," Misty explained.
"That's cruel! Aren't you supposed to be friends?!" Joey was obviously disgusted at Mai's actions. "So, that's why you're crying?" he asked her.
"No. I'm crying because..." Misty's voice trailed off as tears began forming in her eyes again.
Joey grabbed her hands and made her look at him. He stared into her eyes. "Don't wuss out now, tell me. I promise, whatever it is, I'm sure I can help."
Misty jumped up from the ground. "No, you can't help! They're going to die all because of me!"
"Who? Whose gonna die?" Joey was confused.
Misty was sobbing now. Joey quickly stood up, grabbed her and embraced her, then began comforting her by saying soothing and encouraging words. Misty continued to cry for about 20 seconds longer, then she slowly pulled out of Joey's rather comfortable embrace. She sat back down on the ground and sighed heavily again, then she slowly began talking again. (Joey sat down too)
"My sisters has this terrible, life-threating disease. Doctors don't have any idea what the disease is because they've never seen anything like it before, but a scientist agreed to help find a cure for it. This person isn't an established scientist with a degree and everything, but she demands 3 million dollars before she even began researching for a treatment," Misty told him. Joey (surprisingly) finished the rest for her.
"So you were earning star chips so that you could compete in the tournament, win the prize money, then have your sisters cured of their disease."
"Yeah, but now I can't because Mai took all of my star chips." Joey and Misty sat there for a while, then suddenly, Joey jumped up with an idea in his head.
"Misty, get on your feet," Joey ordered.
"Huh? But... but why?" Misty asked.
"Just do it, we're going to find Mai."
"But what good will that do?" Misty inquired while getting up from the ground.
"You'll see. Okay, where was the last place you and Mai was, maybe she's still there?"
"Um, it was over here, follow me," Misty told him and walked off in the direction of her and Mai's dueling site, a.k.a. the cave. It took them a little while, but they arrived at the cave's entrance. Misty stopped right in front of it. "This was where we dueled."
Joey looked around until he spotted a trail of continuous shoeprints leading somewhere. "These shoeprints must be Mai's! C'mon, let go follow 'em!" Joey sprinted off following the prints. Misty ran after him, wondering just what good was all this going to do.
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"I'll be a gentleman to you; I'm allowing you to go first," Brock told Yolanda, and she smirked.
"Thank you," she replied, then looked at the 5 cards in her hand. She then pulled one up. "Hmm, this card should do it. Okay, brace yourself, because I call upon the Petite Angel!" she said and slammed the card down.
"What card is this?" Brock wondered while the card was loaded. When the monster appeared on the field, he saw all. The Petite Angel was a little pink, balloon looking creature with white wings mounted on its back and a golden circle which floated above it's head. The creature then made a petite squeaking sound (much like the sound of a Rubber ducky when you press on it) as it's battle cry.
ATK: 600 DEF: 250 (Forgive me if the Petite's Angel's ATK and DEF points are slightly off; I haven't seen the episode in which it was in in a long time, mainly because Kids WB don't show it much in the Monday-Friday reruns; they're always showing Yugi and Pegasus dueling each other)
Brock burst out into hysterical laughter. "What kind of card is that? Now I see how that guy scored a flawless victory when he dueled you. You'll never get anywhere with cards like that!" Brock said as he continued to laugh unstoppably and uncontrollably.
"You may be laughing now, but I promise you, you won't be for long! Make your move!" Yolanda demanded.
Brock was now forcing himself to stop laughing. He pulled a card from his hand, still snickering. There was still hints of laughter in his voice as he spoke. "As you wish. I choose this card, Electric Lizard, in attack mode!" Brock placed the card down and the Electric Lizard appeared on the field.
ATK: 850 DEF: 800
"Electric Lizard, attack!" Brock commanded. The monster growled and sent a small bolt of lightning directed right toward the Petite Angel, but it flapped it wings swiftly and managed to dodge the attack, squeaking cowardly. Brock was rolling with laughter as the lizard dished 2 more bolts at it, but the Angel successfully dodged them. The fourth bolt whacked it full force, and the monster shattered.
"No, my monster!" Yolanda's eyes bucked open.
Yolanda's Life Points- 1750
She frowned and said, "You haven't won this, yet Brock. Prepare to meet Saggi the Dark Clown, in attack mode!" Yolanda put the card down, and the wacky clown appeared laughing wickedly, yet crazily and jokily at the same time.
ATK: 600 DEF: 1500
Yolanda slapped down 1 extra card. "And with the magic of Negative Energy, my dark clown's attack power is doubled, meaing it's raised 600 points (ATK: 1200), making it stronger than before. Say adios to that lizard. Saggi the Dark Clown, attack!" she told the monster. It did as told and formed a black void in its hands, then hurled the attack at the Electric Lizard. The attack struck the monster head on and it screamed before vanishing off the field in a strange swirling effect.
Brock's Life Points- 1650
"Well, well, you're actually ahead of me, by 100 points," Brock commented.
"Yes, and I intend for it to stay that way!" Yolanda said boldly and stuck her neck high in the air.
"Confident, aren't we?" Brock spoke while drawing a new card from his deck. He looked it over, then looked back at Yolanda and smirked. "Well, get yourself ready for this!" Brock placed the card down. "Thunder Dragon, in attack mode! And I'm placing a card face down onto the field!" Brock yelled. The Thunder Dragon materialized onto the field, and the hidden card's holocard loaded face-down.
ATK: 1600 DEF: 1500
"Thunder Dragon, destroy that clown with Dark Thunder attack (?)!" Brock commanded. The Thunder Dragon charged up and released the attack. The bolt hit Saggi the Dark Clown full force, and the clown shrieked in pain before exploding in tiny pieces.
Yolanda's Life Points- 1450
Brock smirked and quipped, "Look whose losing now."
"That won't be for long!" Yolanda shot back immaturely and drew her next card. [Winged Dragon: Guardian of The Fortress. It won't be able to defeat Thunder Dragon, but I might be able to trick Brock into attacking the creature, and then he'll fall into my trap.] After drawing two more cards from her hand, she placed them down. "Okay, I'm placing three cards onto the field, all of them face-down." The three face-down holocards loaded in the appropiate spots to intimidate Brock. Brock began to think this over.
[I've seen this kind of move a bunch of times in my duels. One of those cards might be some type of trap layed down to go with that face-down monster. The monster itself could be strong enough to withstand Thunder Dragon's attack, so I'd better not risk attacking with it. Instead I should play another card.] Brock drew a card from his deck, then grabbed a card from his hand. "Perfect, I play the Reaper of The Cards, in attack mode! And I'm adding Rush Recklessly to it which increases its attack power by 700!" Brock threw the cards down onto the card reader in front of him, causing the monster to come out on the field.
ATK: 2080 DEF: 1930
"Reaper of The Cards, slice 'em and dice 'em, now!" Reaper of The Cards did as told and prepared to attack the Winged Dragon. Just as it was about to strike, Yolanda activated her secret trap card.
"Oh, you walked right into a trap, baby. I invoke the Spellbinding Circle!" she shouted. A golden star formed around Soul Reaper and stopped it dead in its tracks, and a blue aura appeared around it, ensuring that it couldn't move.
"No! My Reaper of The Cards!" Brock gasped.
"Didn't think I was going to strategize and plan ahead, did you? Let's just say my duel with that guy helped me clear my head. And don't forget, your monster loses 700 of its attack points, plus 700 more points since the magic card you played wears off after 1 turn anyway," she finished and laughed tauntingly.
ATK: 680
"And now, I'll flip my face-down monster face-up, and in attack mode!" she announced while doing so. The hidden card turned out to be Winged Dragon: Guardian of the Fortress. Go, Winged Dragon, Fireball Attack!!" Yolanda screeched and her monster showed its obedience by launching a large fireball straight into the heart of the bound Reaper of the Cards, obliterating it and a large chunk of Brock's life points.
Brock's Life Points- 930
"Ouch! I had no idea my trap would work that good! You're trailing by 520 points! However did that happen?" she jeered and giggled in delight.
[Yolanda's a far better duelist than I anticipated. That Petite Angel stuff was just a ploy to get me to let my guard down. Now she's knocked my life points to 930, and she's over 500 points ahead of me. She's improved a whole lot since I saw her at that tourmanent. If I wanna win this, I'd better make a good move that'll count.] "My Thunder Dragon is still strong enough to take down your guardian. "Thunder Dragon, attack!" Brock shouted, and the monster unleashed its attack at the Winged Dragon. In the rush, Brock forgot about Yolanda's other card, which she promptly flipped.
"I hid yet another magic card from you, Waboku!" Yolanda annouced. Waboku's magic reduced the Thunder Dragon's attack strength to 0, so when the bolt struck the Winged Dragon, no damage was done. "Well, I've just rendered that attack useless. Now its my turn, let's see here," she reached down and drew her next card, then placed it down onto the field to make it began its materialization. "Allright! I call out the Dark Magician, attack mode!"
ATK: 2500 DEF: 2100
"Think you can predict what happens now, Brocky boy?" Brock didn't answer, but instead he snarled at her. "Dark Magician, attack the Thunder Dragon now! Dark Magic Attack!" Yolanda's Dark Magician powered up its staff and fired a powerful purple beam right into Thunder Dragon, which shattered upon impact.
Brock's Life Points- 30
Yolanda burst out into laughter. "Look at you, Brocky boy, you're down to 30 life points. You might as well call it quits, hmm?" she teased and Brock scowled in response.
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Dow in the bowels of Pegasus's castle, a guard finished hooking Morty up to a machine. He turned it on, and some grinded food started to enter into Morty's stomach. Since the man wouldn't eat anything, Pegasus had to improvise and force the neccessary nutrients into him to keep him alive. The guard walked out of the cell and activated the force field, then returned to his post. For a while, everything was silent. The eerie surroundings of the dungeon cells only added to the silence, and it gave a distinct 'I'm deep under the earth, all alone' feeling. Suddenly, some footsteps clanked across the floor. They were heading toward the cell. The sudden noise caused Morty to arouse. He blinked to help clear his vision and wondered who it was that was coming. He figured it was Pegasus, since he was the only person around who had a reason to come see him. The force field deactivated, and a woman crossed the threshold into the cell. To Morty's utter surprise, it was Jasmine! Her pastel pink hair flowed down her back gorgeously. She was wearing a loose, rose-colored dress which reached her ankles, with white sandals on her feet. She approached Morty, smiling.
"It's been so long, darling," she whispered.
Morty couldn't believe his eye sight. Was it really her? Had she really come to set him free like he hoped? Or what if it was a trick from Pegasus? "Jasmine... is it.. really you?" he asked in a shaky voice.
"Of course, honey, it's me. I've come to see you free," she returned. She approached Morty and rubbed her hand across his bare chest. He winced when she accidentally touched a large burn (from the grease Pegasus threw on him a little while ago). "Oops, baby, I'm sorry," she apologized.
"It's... it's all right," he replied.
Jasmine sighed heavily. "Tell me, Morty, why did Pegasus kidnap you in the first place?"
Morty shook his head and sighed. "Listen, I'll tell you, but first, we need to get out of here," he rushed out.
"No, no, I wanna know. No one's coming, Morty. I incapacitated all the guards. And I don't think Pegasus is even in the castle right now. So, why avoid the question? Did you do something to make Pegasus kidnap you? Is there something going on I should know about?"
"I didn't do anything to provoke Pegasus!" Morty exclaimed in a soft tone of voice. "He started all this by abducting me from my house."
"But why?"
"I have no idea! He's mad!" Morty answered. "Listen, we need to escape."
"Is it because of the Millenium Key?" she asked while touching it.
"Y... you know about the key?"
"Yes, honey, I had my ways of finding out. If you gave it to me, I could store it in my S.C.T for safekeeping. That way, Pegasus won't have a chance at getting it," Jasmine offered.
"You don't have to worry about that. Pegasus can't get the key off my neck. He's tried to already. The Millenium Key won't come off my neck unless..." his voice trailed off. He shook his head and spoke, "C'mon, Jasmine! Hurry up and get me down from here!"
"I'm trying to!" Jasmine retorted. "It's gonna take me a while to pick these locks," she said while doing so. Jasmine picked at the locks, but so far, hadn't had any luck in unlocking them. She cursed to herself as she kept trying, getting more and more frustrated by the second. Eventually, she got them. "I got them! I got them!" she exclaimed. Morty landed on his feet since he had been hanging on the wall. Jasmine unhooked him from the machine. She started to walk away, but without warning, Morty lashed out and grabbed her by the neck. "Hey, what are you doing?!"
Jasmine struggled to get away, but Morty grabbed the key and held it onto her forehead, activating its powers. Jasmine stopped moving; she had been put into a trance. Morty closed his eyes, and the Millenium Key whisked him away into the cooridors of Jasmine's head. Morty didn't fully trust what he saw nowadays, and he had to be sure whether Jasmine was really there, or was it someone else. Morty saw visions of a shocked Pegasus within her. "Hey, what are you doing here?!" he asked. "Get out of..."
"This isn't really Jasmine, it's you, just like I suspected!" exclaimed Morty. "That's why you were so bent on finding out why 'Pegasus' kidnapped me and why you wanted me to give the key to you! No matter what you try, you'll never get this key from me, you selfish prick!" Morty had seen all he needed to see now. He opened his eyes, which returned him to the real world. "Jasmine" Pegasus continued trying to get away as Morty began choking him.
"Croquet! Croquet! Croquet!!" Pegasus shouted as loud as he could. In case the plan went awry, Pegasus had guards stationed outside. They burst into the room, and fired multiple tranquilizer darts into Morty before he could do anything. Although Morty struggled to stay conscious, the medicine took over and he drifted into unconsciousness. Pegasus easily escaped his grip and sighed a sigh of relief.
"Chain him back up and hook him back to the machine," he ordered, then walked off, heading back to his room. This was getting very tiresome. Pegasus wanted the Millenium Key, and he wanted it now.
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Mai walked gracefully through the forest with her neck high in the air. Seto Kaiba had met with her and gave her the reward, now she was on her way to verify her success wth the administrators. Finally, she had enough star chips to register for the tournament. Mai was beaming inside. Of course, she was closer to completing her mission, but there were many other reasons why she was glad she had the stars, too. She was going to be rich, very rich. Nothing was going to stop her from reaching her true objective. Mai began to imagine about what she would do and have. She would have a huge, deluxe, state-of-the-art mansion built utop a steep hill overlooking the entire Domino City metropolitan area. Beautiful meadows and gardens would be situated outside, and butlers and maids would be cooking and cleaning her house. There would be all kinds of furniture inside, a huge game room consisting of tons of party games, parlor games, board games, puzzle games, video games, everything. And it would all belong to her and only her. Mai smiled as she continued down the dirt path, her spirits high and swelled with pride. All of a sudden, someone shouted at her and snatched her from her thoughts.
"Hey, Mai, where do you think you're going?!" the person screamed.
Mai whirled around to face Joey, with Misty standing by his side. "Got a boyfriend, huh, Misty?" she asked, but was ignored. "Hey, aren't you that blonde bimbo Joey that knocked my pizza on the floor at that restaurant?"
"Yeah, that's me," Joey answered. "Listen, that was rude, nasty, and insensitive of you to do this woman like that Mai! You should be ashamed of yourself!" Joey told her.
"Do you really think that hurts me, Joey boy? Why are you and your stupid, scrawny friend pestering me?"
"I am not scrawny!!" Misty was clearly offended by Mai's insult.
"Because you took something from my friend, and now I'm going to get it back," declared Joey.
"What are you talking about? I haven't taken anything from your friend over there, but I will be glad when you two get out of my face!" Mai exclaimed and began to walk away.
"Oh no you don't!" Joey quickly ran after her, grabbed her, and spun her back around. "Guess what, Mai? You and I are going to have a little duel," Joey stated.
Mai burst out into laughter. "A duel with you?! Who do you think I am? The fact that you even suggested me dueling you is atrocious!"
"No, you're just too chicken to duel me, that's what it is."
"I am not a chicken; I just don't have time or any reason to duel you, punk!" Mai yelled.
"Yes, you are, or you would duel me! You think you're such a hotshot, why don't you prove it to me. Have a duel with me and do your worst. As a matter of a fact, I'll even put up three of my cards on this match, and if you win, you'll can have them," Joey stated.
"Hmm, now that is something worth dueling for. You know what? Since you had the guts to barge over here and demand a duel, I'm going to give it to you. I accept your challenge. Besides, no one calls me a chicken and get away with it! How many star chips?!" Mai asked.
"Nine will be fine."
"What? Nine star chips? You must be crazy, you only have six!" (she could tell by looking at his glove)
"I know, but like I said before: I'll give you three of my cards to compensate for the three stars."
"Joey!" Misty chimed, "Don't be crazy, if you lose you'll lose all your chips and three of your cards!"
"I'm not going to lose, Misty," Joey assured her, but that still didn't help Misty calm down.
"Will I be able to choose which cards I want?" Mai inquired.
"Affirmative."
"Then what are we waiting for, let's get this over with!" Mai searched through her S.C.T, looking for her dueling device. Misty walked up to Joey and tapped his shoulder.
"Joey?"
"Yeah?" Joey turned around to face Misty.
"Here," Misty said and gave him four cards.
"Huh? What are these for?"
"To help you in your duel. I'm trying to help ensure your victory."
Mai looked up and saw what Misty was trying to do. "Oh, and one more thing: if you want to duel me, then I don't want any interferance from the girl!" Mai announced.
"Hey, witch, if I want to help Joey, then I can! There's nothing you can do about it!" Misty shouted.
"Listen, girl, I'm the one with the stars you want. I have the upper hand over you. I don't have to be giving you a fighting chance to get the stars you lost back, so if you want them, I don't want you helping Joey, or giving him any cards out of your deck, understood? If you can't follow these rules, then no duel."
"I've have enough of being pushed around like a rag doll!" Misty yelled and charged for Mai, but Joey grabbed her and held her back.
"No! If you do that, you'll never get your stars back! Listen, we agree. She won't help me!" Joey told Mai, who nodded.
"A wise decision," she answered while strapping on her purple dueling system. Mai placed her deck into the deck keeper and powered up the system. Joey grabbed his red console and did the same. The stage was now set.
***Joey's/Mai's Life Points- 2000***
"Here we go, it's showdown time," Mai said as she drew five cards. Joey drew his first five cards also. The color cooridinated field grid appeared in front of them as always (red for Joey, purple for Mai). "So, who will go first?" Joey asked.
"A game of 'Guess My Number' will decide that. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 15. If your answer is a number that's within two digits of the number I'm thinking of, you can go first. Take for example, the number 4. If the number you guess are one of the two digits before and after 4, which is 2, 3, 5, and 6, then you can go first, understand? (Joey nodded) Okay, what number am I thinking of?" Mai stared Joey in the eyes while asking.
"Um... 9," he answered.
"The number I was thinking of was: 11. Since 9 is the second closest digit to 11, I guess you go first, Joey. Now let's get this show on the road."
"All right, let's duel!" Joey shouted as he played his first card. "I'll play the Baby Dragon card in attack mode!" he said, summoning the Baby Dragon.
ATK: 1200 DEF: 1000
"That's all you're playing? Your loss, because now I'm attacking with Harpie Lady, in attack mode! I'm also playing a card face-down onto the field!" Mai shouted and slapped down the two cards. She watched her Harpie Lady appear on the field.
ATK: 1300 DEF: 1400
"Harpie Lady, slash that Baby Dragon!" Mai commanded, and her Harpie Lady carried out the order, slashing the Baby Dragon and causing it to shatter into pieces.
"No, my dragon!" Joey exclaimed.
Joey's Life Points- 1900
Joey growled at Mai and fished around with his deck, then pulled out another card. "I didn't even get to play my combo. Oh well. Hmm... this time I'm playing, the Axe Raider (slapped down card) in attack mode!" The Axe Raider loaded onto the field and snarled at Harpie Lady.
ATK: 1700 DEF: 1500
"Axe Raider, go! Use Wind Blades!!" Joey shouted. The Axe Raider charged towards the frightened Harpie Lady, and its blade was raised in the air, ready for the blow. Mai chucked under her breath and waited until the last moment, then flipped over her face-down card. The Axe Raider slashed the Harpie Lady, but nothing happened.
"Why didn't the Harpy Lady shatter?" Joey was puzzled.
"Because right before your monster attacked mine, I activated Cyber Shield which increased my Harpie Lady's attack power by 500 points." Numerous gold shield pieces appeared on Harpie Lady's left leg, right leg, left shoulder, right shoulder, and chest. Afterwards, she shrilled and took a stance.
ATK: 1800 DEF: 900
"Now Harpie Lady, slash the Axe Raider, now!" The Harpie Lady charged over to Axe Raider and gave it a good slashing with her long, razor-sharp claws. Axe Raider couldn't weather the attack and shattered afterwards, along with it's holocard it was standing on.
Joey's Life Points- 1800
Joey growled. He lost his Axe Raider and another 100 life points. It was time to turn the tables. Mai cackled with joy. "Didn't think little Mai wouldn't be much to handle, hunh, Joey?"
"Shut up, Mai. You won't be laughing for long."
"And I'm supposed to be like, scared now? Ohh, I'm trembling. I'm terrified. The little blonde runt's going to defeat me!" Mai laughed even harder. "Go ahead, punk. Make your next move."
"Hey, watch your mouth, you tramp!" Joey countered.
"TRAMP?!!" Mai growled in disgust. "How dare you call me a tramp, I'll crush you for that!!!"
"Allright, time to put an end to your Harpie Lady charade." Joey drew his next card, then smiled and pulled up a card from his hand. He proceeded to place the two cards onto the card reader. "Now I'm calling out, the Flame Swordsman, in attack mode! And with the magic of Salamandra, its attack power raises 700 points!" Joey's Flame Swordsman materialized onto the field and growled.
ATK: 2500 DEF: 1600
"Oh no! The sword guy's points are higher than my Harpie Lady's!" Mai acknowledged.
"You're right, time for Harpie Lady to go bye-bye. Attack with Salamandra Flame Strike!" Joey ordered his monster. The Flame Swordsman thrusted out its sword and released a fire dragon at Harpie Lady. The fire engulfed the Harpie Lady and made it shatter into pieces.
Mai's Life Points- 1300
"Good job, Joey!" Misty commented, and Joey gave her a thumbs up, along with a wink.
"I lost 700 life points, and my Harpie Lady," Mai whined, obviously not liking the current outcome of the duel.
"And your going to lose more," Joey said confidently.
Mai drew a card from her deck, then her frown turned upside down. Her lips curved into a smirk. She then drew another card from her hand and placed the cards down onto the reader (one was face-down). "Okay, the Harpie Lady may be gone, but now I play Reborn the Monster to resurrect her from the graveyard!" The Reborn the Monster card's face transformed into Harpie Lady's card, and Mai's Harpie Lady returned to the field shrieking.
ATK: 1300 DEF: 1400
Joey laughed and said, "Is that all you can do? Flame Swordsman's attack power is way higher than Harpie Lady's, but that's your loss. Flame Swordsman at..." Joey then stopped. "Wait a minute. Mai's probably hidin' something, and I've gotta find out what it is. But should I attack? She could have a trap waiting for me the moment I come over there. But what if the face-down card she's played can affect me, even though I don't declare an attack? Or maybe she laid it out to intimidate me and scare me off from attacking so I won't obliterate her life points. What should I do? I think I know what," Joey said. Mai just looked him in the eye and did one of her famous chuckles.
"Oh, I should attack! I don't like the way she's looking at me," Joey murmered to himself, then heard another chuckle. "Ah, that's it. I'm gonna..." Joey was about to give a command, but he stopped.
"Joey, what are you going to do?" Misty inquired, and Joey shook his head.
"I dunno. I'm too skeptical about that face-down card she's played. Ah, I'm gonna attack! Go, Flame Swordsman, Salamandra Flame Strike!!" Joey shouted and his monster fired the fire dragon at the monster.
Mai chuckled. "Big mistake, Joey. I knew you couldn't resist the urge to attack me and put a large gap between our life points. Unforunately, for you, my hidden card was this trap called, Mirror Wall," she stated.
"Hunh? Oh no!" Joey watched his Swordsman's attack smacked straight into the wall, causing it to meet an equal attack from the reflection of itself in the wall. "Huh, what happened to my monster?"
"Joey, you imbecile, don't you know the power of the Mirror Wall? It stops all monsters dead in their tracks and cuts their attack and defense power in half!" she announced.
ATK: 1250 DEF: 800
"Enough for my standard Harpie Lady to do away with, but first, I'll place another card face-down," she said and slapped down the card, causing a holocard to appear face-down in the slot. "Harpie Lady, you know what to do!" she shouted. The Mirror Wall lowered and allowed her Harpie Lady to slash the weakened swordsman, which resulted in a shattering.
Joey's Life Points- 1750
"For all your talk, you only took down my score by 50 points."
"Points, schmoints, no matter how much I took off this round, I've still taken 250 points off total. Your turn," she said. Joey drew a card from his deck and put it down. "This card's strong enough to get Harpie Lady. Garoozis, attack mode!" Garoozis and its holocard loaded into battle and growled.
ATK: 1800 DEF: 1500
"Go, Garoozis, attack the Harpie Lady now!" Garoozis charged toward Harpie Lady to destroy it. All of a sudden, the Mirror Wall rose back up to protect the monster. "What's happening?!"
"You idiot! Don't you realize that Mirror Wall is a permanent trap?! You've just wasted a turn," Mai cackled as Garoozis slashed the wall five times in the shape of a star, but its reflection delivered an equal attack.
ATK: 900 DEF: 750
"Ha! Ha! Ha! You gullible fool. Harpie Lady, go!" Mai's monster instantly delivered a fatal slash to Garoozis and shattered it into pieces.
Joey's Life Points- 1350
"Now you're only 50 points away from me, Joey. What do you have to say, now?" she teased. Joey didn't respond and she chuckled. "Now its time for Part 2 of my Harpie Lady combo to be put in effect," Mai said and giggled in delight. She drew a card out of her hand and threw it down. "Another Cyber Shield, which remakes my Harpie Lady and give it 500 more attack points!" The shield pieces all materialized on Harpie Lady's legs, shoulders and chest, and she screeched in delight.
ATK: 1800
"You're turn."
Joey snarled at Mai and drew for a card. He looked at it, then looked out at the field. Mirror Wall's holocard was still laying there, which meant that the card was still active. No matter what card he drew, he wouldn't be able to get past Mai's Mirror Wall. "So the only thing I can do is go defensive. Battle Warrior, in defense mode!" Joey slammed down the card and loaded the weak monster into the duel.
ATK: 700 DEF: 1000
Mai burst out into hysterical and uncontrollable laughter, and Joey frowned. "Hey, what's so funny?! If you think you're about to win this duel, you're wrong! This duel is far from over!"
Mai continued laughing obnoxiously. Joey and Misty looked at each other. "She doesn't seem phased by that, Joey," Misty muttered.
"You don't think I just screwed up big time, do you?"
"I don't see how. All you did was place a monster in defense mode, what's so funny about that?" Misty wondered. Mai continued laughing uncontrollably. "Hey, what's so funny, witch?!" Misty yelled, and Mai finally began calming herself down.
"Hey, watch your mouth, tramp! Anyway, if you really wanna know what I'm laughing at, I'll be more than eager to let you see. Brace yourselves," she warned them, then turned over her hidden card. "The card I played face-down was this, Shadow of Eyes! Its special power is the ability to lure any monster in battle!" she explained and laughed, and Joey gasped.
"Oh no, my monster's about to attack the Harpie Lady and as soon as it does, Mirror Wall's gonna rise up to protect it, causing my monster's attack and defense points to get reduced! No, Battle Warrior, stop! Please, resist the spell!" Joey urged, but Battle Warrior would not listen to him. "Battle Warrior, you have to stop!"
"Joey, you're monster can't resist the thrall of the Shadow of Eyes even if it wanted to. Come here, Battle Warrior. Come get your big sis!" Mai called out, and Battle Warrior charged towards Harpie Lady.
"NO!! Get back!!" Joey shouted, but it wouldn't listen. Mai laughed heartily as Mirror Wall rose up to protect Harpie Lady. The Battle Warrior punched the wall and received an equal attack from its reflection, and thus it was stopped dead in its tracks.
ATK: 350 DEF: 500
"Now, here's the funniest part! As you know, when a monster attack and kills another monster, the amount of life points deducted are determined by how much of a difference the two monster's attack powers were. Harpie Lady's attack strength is 1800, while Battle Warrior is now at 350. Do the math... and you figure up a 1450 attack point difference! Joey, how many life points are currently in your bin?" Mai asked, and his face took on a sick look.
"NO!!!" he yelled, and Misty gasped in surprise.
"That's the funniest part!" Mai burst into laughter again, then shouted, "Harpie Lady, do away with Battle Warrior now!" The Mirror Wall lowered once again to allow Harpie Lady passage. It charged straight at the defenseless Battle Warrior.
"Oh no..." Joey's voice trailed off as he sunk to the ground. "I failed... Misty, I failed... I'm so sorry..." he said and watched as Harpie Lady delivered the final slash which ended the duel. Battle Warrior erupted into hundreds of tiny pieces, and the duel was now over.
Joey's Life Points- 0
"My life points, I lost!" Joey's eyes bucked open in shock. Misty covered her mouth and sighed. Joey lost... He lost all his star chips trying to win back hers. Misty felt very sick inside as she watched the holograms dissappear. Joey reluctantly ejected his stars from the glove and threw them over to Mai. She picked them up and dropped them in her pocket. She put her deck in her pocket too, then starting spinning around, joyfully.
"I won! I won!" she continued to spin around in glee. Joey looked through his deck and found the Copycat Card. He didn't want Mai to have this card, so he quickly stashed the card into his pocket. He would've stashed away the Red Eyes Black Dragon and Summoned Skull, too, but she approached him before he could.
"I'm not giving you any cards," he stated, which caught Mai off guard.
"Pardon me?" Mai asked, making sure she heard correctly.
"I said I'm not giving you any cards," Joey verified his statement.
"Hey, buster, you agreed to give me three of your cards if you lost to make up for the three star chips I wouldn't receive."
"I change my mind, you're not getting any cards," Joey said flatly.
"I see. I guess you don't know what I'll do if you don't give me the cards."
"What will you do?"
"You see, Joey, I'm not a woman to be messed with. I have connections, and I'll use them. How would you like to be framed for murder? See, I know people, and they can forge up some fake records, papers, footage of you killing someone, and notify the police. Do you really wanna spend the rest of your life either running from the police or getting raped by the gay men in the pen? You know you're far too bony to put up much of a fight. So, what will it be: Give up three of your cards and have a nice day, or spend what will feel like an eternity behind bars with gays? It's your choice," she threated.
"You can't do that," retorted Joey.
"Wanna bet?" Mai asked in a dark tone of voice. "Do you really wanna take that chance?"
"Just give her the cards, Joey, don't call her bluff," Misty told him.
Joey sighed and frowned angrily, then spoke, "Which card would you like?"
"A wise decision, yet again," she commented, and both Joey and Misty scowled at her. "Hmm... let's see," Mai looked them over for a moment then decided. "I'll take the Red Eyes Black Dragon, the Summoned Skull, and last but not least, the Flame Swordsman," Mai took them all out of Joey's hands, then turned and started walking away. She then stopped and looked back at him.
"You know, your girlfriend fared better against me than you when she dueled me." she chuckled and continued walking away. Joey was now very angry. He threw a nearby rock then flung himself down on the ground.
"What are we going to do now?" Misty asked.
"I don't know. Board the escort boat off the island."
"There has to be another way. I know, let's take the star chips back." Misty suggested.
"What do you mean?"
"When Mai's all asleep, we could go and take our star chips back.
"But that would be stealin', and she'll just call the Ruby Island security."
"That slut won't know that we did it," Misty took a seat next to Joey. "They won't know it was us, nobody will see us. She won't, they won't. Then we could stay in the tournament."
"It could've worked, but I read something in a brochure I received on the cruise ship. Unfortunately, there's a special tracking system on all the stars used in the tournament. When you have stars, they are registered under your name. When they get taken from you in a duel, the tracking system updates so that the stars will be registered under the new user (that's because you throw the stars down when you bet them in a duel). But, if you try to steal them and use them for yourselves, the stars won't be registered under your name; they'll still be registered by the person who rightfully obtained them. So, if we steal them, she can call security and tell them to track down the stars under her name. They'll eventually find us, and then we'll get arrested, so that's won't work," Joey explained. There was silence for twenty seconds, then Joey got another idea.
"Wait a minute. Yugi, he might be able help us."
"Yugi? You mean the little kid on the boat?"
"Yeah, him. He'll find a way to help us for sure. C'mon, let's find him!" Joey got up and walked off, and Misty followed him.
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Meanwhile, Yugi was claiming three star chips from another duelist. "Hey, it was a great match and you're a very good duelist," the man said to him.
"Thanks, and you were good yourself."
"Good luck on your journey," the man said and left, then Yugi sighed afterwards. So far, so good. He had ten star chips now. Just five more and he'd be on his way to the tournament. Yugi sat down under an apple tree and looked through his deck. So far, his Grandfather's deck was proving its usefulness in this whole ordeal.
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Meanwhile, Ash was still undergoing his meditation. He looked like was at peace, so Geoff got off the cushion he was sitting on and quietly stepped outside. He took a deep breath of air, then exhaled deeply. The air on the island was really clean; it was much better air quality there than back in the city. Geoff was getting rather bored of watching Ash sitting there with his eyes shut, so he decided to find someone to duel. He walked away from the tint, heading down toward the more popular dueling sites. He hoped the next duelist he fought would put up a good fight. This was one of the many reasons Geoff came to participate in this tournament: He needed a good challenge. Everyone around his neighborhood were airheaded, inexperienced noobs who couldn't put up as good a challenge as a 4-year old could. He wanted a duelist who could really give him a run for his money. He wanted someone who could really make him think about his moves. As of late, all the duels he'd been in were walks in the park. Geoff continued walking, whistling a tune while doing so. After he was out of sight, a familiar person stepped out of the bushes. And this person just happened to be the one and only Seto Kaiba. He slipped some brass knuckles on his hand, then crept toward the tint. He carefully peeped into the opening to see Ash sitting indian-style on the floor, with his back facing toward him. Seto smirked deviously.
[Just the way I need you,] he thought to himself. He quietly crept toward Ash, being extremely careful not to make one sound. However, Ash still managed to hear his footsteps. He snapped his eyes open and whirled his head around to see Seto standing there. He started getting to his feet, but Seto didn't leave him a chance. He grabbed Ash by his hair and punched him straight in the face as hard as he could, which knocked the boy out. He fell onto the ground, and Seto smirked. He checked his dueling glove to find seven stars in it. He grinned, then started dragging Ash out of the tint...
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***Brock's Life Points- 30/Yolanda's Life Points- 1450
Brock scanned the battlefield, and racked his mind trying to think of any play that could get him out of this predicament. "C'mon, Brocky boy, what's taking so long for you to make your move? I know why, it's because you know I have the advantange over you," Yolanda giggled in delight. "Oh, it feels so good to be winning."
[What am I going to do? I could try to attempt the Black Luster Ritual, but it's risky enough as is. I can't possibly pull it off with 30 life points. There has to be something in my deck to help me out. If I don't draw a card that'll reinforce my life points, she'll most likely do me in next turn. C'mon, deck, I hope I shuffled you correctly before the start of the match. I need something to bring my score back from the brink of defeat,] he thought, then reached over and drew a card. He looked it, and his face brightened up.
"C'mon, pretty boy, make your move!"
"And that's what I'll do. (draws 3 more cards out of hand) First off, I've got 2 more Thunder Dragons to put on the field, which I'll do now!" Brock slapped down both cards and brought them forth into battle.
ATK: 1600 DEF: 1500
"Then, I'll lay out this trap card called Gift of the Mystical Elf, (Yolanda gasps) which will give me 300 life points for every monster that's currently out on the field, even yours! Looks this I'm not gone after all, hunh Yolanda?" Brock teased back at her while his card went to work. Enchanted fairy dust sprung from the card and showered all over Brock, then his life points began to raise.
Brock's Life Points- 1230
Brock sighed deeply. "That puts me back in the game. And for my final move... (slaps down last card) ...I'm using the magic of this polymerization card to merge my two Thunder Dragons into one, powerful monster!" Bright light flashed as the monsters began phasing into a swirling effect. Within moments, a new dragon had found its way onto the field. "Yolanda, I introduce you to the Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon!"
ATK: 2800 DEF: 2100
"Aah! This is bad!" whined Yolanda.
"You think its bad now? Wait until you see it unleash its might on that Dark Magician of yours. Allright, Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, let's avenge the death of your predecesor. Destroy the Dark Magician with Proton Thunder Blast (?)!!" The two heads of the dragon charged a large lighting bolt in their mouths, then fired the destructive bolts straight into the Dark Magician, utterly obliterating it from the field. Winds plastered against Yolanda due to the awesome power of the monster.
Yolanda's Life Points- 1150
"Aw.. look at you. Your pride has been hurt, hasn't it?" jeered Brock. He slapped hands with Tristan and smiled.
"That was a brilliant comeback, good job," he commented.
"Thanks, but that all it is, a comeback. This duel isn't over yet, which means Yolanda still has a chance to strike back. It's her turn now, let's see what she's gonna do," Brock said and stared at Yolanda. She looked over her hand, then looked back at Brock.
"I choose to end my turn without playing anything. Make a move," she stated.
"As you wish," Brock muttered, then reached down and grabbed a card. Upon looking at it, his grin grew into an even bigger grin. [This Crush Card Virus would clinch the match for me. Yolanda would be done for if I can manage to get it onto the field. And I think I know just how. All I've got to do is give Yolanda some healthy prey to sink her teeth into.] Drawing a card, he placed it down onto the field. "I call out the Armed Ninja, in attack mode! And I lay another card face-down!" The two holocards appeared, and Armed Ninja jumped out of its card, staring at Yolanda.
ATK: 300 DEF: 300
"That's all you're doing? Well, I don't know what you played face down, but I'll have to hope for the best. With such a weak monster on the field, I can flush a lot of your life points. (slaps down card) Water Omotics, attack mode!" The holocard loaded into the center slot and released the monster into battle.
ATK: 1400 DEF: 1200
"With such a big difference in the attack strengths of our monsters, I can knock you down to 130 points. Water Omotics, get rid of the Armed Ninja!" Yolanda called out. The Water Omotics conjured a wave out of the ground and directed it right at the ninja. It struck the ninja, but before it drowned, Brock's magic card activated. Afterwards, the virus was released into the air.
"Wha... wha... what's happening?"
"I decided to infect my Armed Ninja with the Crush Card, a magic virus which restricts you from using any monster that has attack power greater than 1500."
"No, that's impossible! This can't be happening to me!" Yolanda gasped.
"Wake up and smell the coffee, Yolanda, because it is," Brock told her and she shook her head.
"No!" True to Brock's word, the Crush Card virus began infecting all the cards in the deck quickly. The words on her deck status meter read 'virus'. "But the dragon isn't getting destroyed!"
"What's the point of using the Crush Card if your monsters are affected too? The only monsters the virus affects is the adversary's, in this case, you."
"No, this can't be happening, I was winning!!" she whined.
"Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, attack Water Omotics!" Brock shouted. The monster powered up its lightning beams and struck Water Omotics square in the chest, therefore obliterating her off the field. "Time to make your move, Yolanda. What'll it be: forfeit the match, or play a monster and have it obliterated?" Brock smirked afterwards.
"I'm not giving up this easily; I play another Saggi the Dark Clown in defense mode!" she tossed her card onto the reader and summoned her monster onto the field.
ATK: 600 DEF: 1500
"Is that the best monster you can muster out of that crippled deck? Thunder Dragon, obliterate it now!" The dragon charged and released its powerful bolts of thunder and lightning straight into the clown, making it shriek before exploding. No life points were deducted from Yolanda's total.
"Ha! Ha, I've got this match won!" Brock exclaimed and slapped hands with Tristan.
Yolanda whined. "Ohh, what do I do?" She wearily looked through her hand, and all the cards their had more than 1500 attack points. She drew a card out of her deck, and played it since it was within the limitations. "Man- Eater Bug, in defense mode." (it loaded)
ATK: 450 DEF: 600
"Hey, Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, you know what do to. Proton Thunder Blast!!" The dragon launched the bolts of lightning right into the chest on the Man-Eater Bug and blew it off the field. Yolanda still didn't lose any life points.
"Yolanda, why don't you give up? You're bound to using monsters with less than 1500 attack points, and my Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon has enough attack power at its disposal to wipe out anything you grab. Forfeit the match and save yourself some embarrassment, and time," Brock jeered.
Yolanda drew another card from her deck and played it. "Kuribo, in attack mode!" The little brown furball found its way into the duel.
ATK: 300 DEF: 200
Brock laughed. "Is that all you've got? I thought Saggi was something, but this little runt? It's the weakest monster that's ever been made for the game. You can't be serious playing that, especially in attack mode?"
"Just go ahead and attack it," Yolanda said, and Brock nodded.
"If you insist. Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, fry that little furball now!" And that's exactly what Brock's dragon did. The lighting fired from the dragon, plastered into Kuribo and utterly obliterated it, along with Yolanda's life points.
Yolanda's Life Points- 0
"Allright, Brock! Good move!" Tristan exclaimed, and Brock winked at him.
Yolanda sighed and frowned. She ejected her stars out of the glove and threw them over to Brock, who caught them. She then walked away from the site, tears beginning to well up in her eyes. Brock powered down his system and ran over to Yolanda.
"Hey, Yolanda!" he shouted, making her stop. She didn't turn around. "It was a good duel, Yolanda. You should be proud of yourself, you're a pretty good duelist," Brock said and extended a hand for her to shake. But instead she simply ran away as fast as she could, not being able to bear the fact that she'd lost. Brock frowned in disgust, then yelled after her, "Hey, I was trying to be nice!" He sighed, then turned to Tristan. "What, is my hand not good enough for her to shake?"
"Forget her. Well, that makes eight star chips," Tristan said.
"Yep. Looks like I'm advancing pretty well in this sub-competition. How about you, Tristan? How did you fare?"
"I won 4 stars in a duel with this goth dude. He was majorly weird, and at first he seemed pretty hard, but he turned out to be easy to beat," Tristan replied to Brock's question.
"Really? That's good," Brock said. "Hey, give me another orange," he requested. Tristan grabbed an orange out of the fruit bucket and gave it to Brock. He bit into it happily. "Yummy," he muttered, enjoying the sweet, fruity goodness. Tristan fetched a strawberry out of the basket and started eating it.
"Man, this island really has some good fruits, wouldn't you say?" he asked.
"Uh-huh. These are some of the best oranges I've had in my entire life," Brock responded. While eating their fruits, the two boys began to talk about other things, such as cars, pretty girls and their boobs, etc.
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(Ending Discloser Below.)
--Episode Written By: GateGuardian3500-- What did you think? Was it good? I sure hope so. I don't have anything to say, so goodbye. Hopefully it won't take me long to create the next episode (which will really be all-new, not a remake)!
Disclaimer (I've been forgetting to do this a lot lately, LOL [laugh out loud]): I don't own characters from Yu-gi-oh, Cardcaptors or Pokemon. I'm simply borrowing them for my fanfic. These cartoons belong to 4 Kids Entertainment, Kids Wb, and whoever else.
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Duelists of The Future- Season 1- Episode 13, 'The Sub-Competition Rages On' (4/21/2003)
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Brock and Tristan had left the medical center and were heading back to their campsite. The campsite wasn't too far away from the center, so they got there in about eight minutes. While approaching the tints, Brock's stomach started grumbling. Tristan looked at him and laughed. "Sounds like somebody's hungry," he spoke.
"Well, I haven't had anything to eat all day. Tristan, whatever happened to that basket with the fruit you had collected from around the island? I could sure use some strawberries or oranges right now," Brock said.
"The fruit basket's in my tint, I'll run and get it," Tristan told him, then took off toward the tint. Brock watched him go, then leisurely walked over to the edge of the lake and sighed heavily. He was still worried about what could happen to him. What did the inscription mean?
(Flashback)
"Disturb not the ancient artifact within, For the cursed object will only bring complications to him who touch. This warning goes out to all people who seek the artifact, Do not listen to your greed, But, instead, take heed."
(End Flashback)
Brock hated that he ever jumped in the lake. He never would've stumbled upon the sunken plane in the first place if he hadn't taken that good, underwater swim. He wished that he decided to find another way to give his mind a rest, like playing a game, or something. Taking a swim to relieve the stress of winning the tournament for his father only wound up putting more stress on his shoulders. Speaking of which, what if his dad found out about this incident? Would he still love him, or would he consider him a freak of nature, disown him, and throw him away? Brock shuddered at the thought. The boy was pretty scared, not only for his own sake, but also because of the things mentioned. What if all his family seperated themselves from him and stopped loving him? Brock shook his head and sighed heavily. He turned away from the lake and walked over to a nearby tree. He carefully climbed up the tree and sat on a branch. He wanted to get his mind off of this current dillema, so he transported his dueling glove out of his device and looked to see how many stars he had. There was six stars in the star shaped holes. So far, he was doing pretty well. Just nine more star chips and he was tournament bound. After he won the tournament, he would receive 100 million dollars which he would use to pay for his father's surgeries needed to heal his injuries. And an extra bonus is that his family wouldn't be poor and living in a house made for 5 people anymore. After he won the prize, him and his family would be livin' large. Brock started to think about what he would do with his share of the money. He'd probably purchase a Gamestation at long last, then he'd buy plenty of expensive chains and jewelry, go on a shopping spree for games and stuff, and possibly get his hair dyed a dark red or green for a different look. Possibly. Tristan came back out of tint with the fruit basket in tow.
"Hey, I got the basket. And, what are you doing up in that tree?" he wondered.
"There wasn't any where else to sit, and besides, the wind up here feels great," Brock replied, then said, "Hey, toss me an orange." Tristan reached into the basket and grabbed an orange, then threw it at Brock. Brock caught it with ease and bit down into it, savoring the sweet, delicous taste. Suddenly, a voice spoke to him which startled him.
"Uh, excuse me?" the feminine voice said.
Brock turned his head back to see who it was. Tristan also looked to see who it was. A beautiful blonde girl around their age stood there. She was wearing a blue jean miniskirt and a white midriff. Her long blonde hair flowed down to her mid-back, and it was all spiraled gorgeously. Her hair was decked out as diamonds also flowed through the spiraled hair, which shined and sparkled in the sunlight. Three diamond necklaces flowed down her neck, and her arms were decorated with diamond bracelets and rings. It was an amazing sight to Brock.
"Wow.. check out the walking jewelry store..." Brock's eyes stared into hers a bit dreamily. He caught himself and shook his head. "Uh, can I help you in any way, miss?" he asked.
"I was wondering if, uh, you knew where a nearby garden was," she told him.
"Um, there's one on the other side of the lake," he said and pointed to it.
"Oh! I see it, thanks!" she said and began to walk away.
"Glad to be of help," Brock replied and bit another chunk of the orange off. He chewed it while watching her walk away. Suddenly, she stopped and turned back around to face him.
"Actually, I didn't want to know where the garden was, I came here to challenge you to a duel!" the girl demanded, then revealed her white dueling glove (which was plated in diamonds) and slipped it on.
"You? Challenge me to a duel? What's your name, princess?"
"My name is Yolanda Richards, what's yours?"
"My name's Brock Mowry," he answered, then started to remeber something. "Hey, aren't you that girl that guy in the tournament got a flawless victory on?"
Yolanda scoffed, then pointed her finger at him. "Yeah, that's me, who cares?! What's your answer? Get up and face down your challenge. Be brave! Are you gonna face me like a man and give me a duel? Or are you too scared, are you gonna chicken out?" Yolanda inquired.
Brock slowly climbed down out of the tree, then approached her. He stared into her eyes, but he was serious now. "Hey, I'm not a chicken! Allright, I accept your challenge. If you want a duel, you'll get a duel. How many stars?" Brock pulled out his green dueling glove and slipped it tightly around his hand. Perhaps this was a good way to get his mind off of... you know what.
"Three stars," she confirmed. She transported a diamond plated portable dueling console out of her S.C.T and wrapped it around her arm firmly.
"Gotta put diamonds on it too? You're a walking jewelry store," he commented.
"Yes, and I'm proud of it. Now, whip out your dueling device and let's duel!" she shouted a bit bossily and impatiently. Brock whipped out his gold duel console and strapped it onto his arm properly. Brock grabbed his deck of cards out of his pants pocket, placed it into the deck keeper and powered up his system, as did Yolanda.
"Ready?" Brock called out.
"A little slow, if you ask me, but I'm ready," Yolanda answered. "Now let's duel!" they both shouted simutaneously.
***Brock's/Yolanda's Life Points- 2000***
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After running out of the cave, Misty sprinted back to her campsite with tears forming in her eyes. When she arrived, she sunk to the ground and began crying her heart out. [I failed. I failed my sisters. I didn't even earn enough star chips to enter into the tournament. That stupid tramp. She tied me up, forced me to battle her and took my stars from me; now there's nothing I can do to help my sisters. I let them down. Now they'll never get that expensive treatment that would save their lives. Instead, they are... they are going to... die.] Misty cried even harder when she thought about what was going to transpire. What she didn't know is that the crying attracted someone to her location.
"Misty, hey, is that you?" the person asked.
Misty turned around to face the person and it turned out to be her old friend Joey. "Joey, what are you doing here?" Misty quickly wiped the tears off of her face.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Joey asked her with concern showing in his voice.
"Nothing.. I'm just..."
"Crying for nothing?" Joey interrupted her. He walked over next to her and sat down. "You can tell me, I promise to keep whatever it is a secret."
"That's really nice... Joey, but I really don't want to talk about it," Misty said, but Joey wouldn't accept this. "C'mon, you can talk to me. It might help you if you tell someone," Joey put his hand on her back and rubbed it gently.
Misty sighed heavily. [Should I tell him? It isn't really none of his concern, but Joey is my best friend, an old friend, to add. He's really concerned about me, and besides, it might make me feel better if I actually talked about it. Maybe, just maybe, he might have some way of helping me.] She then spoke, "Okay, I'll talk." There was a pause for moment before Misty continued. "I lost all my star chips."
"What?!" Joey gasped in surprise. "How? What happened?"
"This whore named Mai, which I was starting to be pretty good friends with, made me fight an all-out duel for everything and she won, so she took all my star chips," Misty explained.
"That's cruel! Aren't you supposed to be friends?!" Joey was obviously disgusted at Mai's actions. "So, that's why you're crying?" he asked her.
"No. I'm crying because..." Misty's voice trailed off as tears began forming in her eyes again.
Joey grabbed her hands and made her look at him. He stared into her eyes. "Don't wuss out now, tell me. I promise, whatever it is, I'm sure I can help."
Misty jumped up from the ground. "No, you can't help! They're going to die all because of me!"
"Who? Whose gonna die?" Joey was confused.
Misty was sobbing now. Joey quickly stood up, grabbed her and embraced her, then began comforting her by saying soothing and encouraging words. Misty continued to cry for about 20 seconds longer, then she slowly pulled out of Joey's rather comfortable embrace. She sat back down on the ground and sighed heavily again, then she slowly began talking again. (Joey sat down too)
"My sisters has this terrible, life-threating disease. Doctors don't have any idea what the disease is because they've never seen anything like it before, but a scientist agreed to help find a cure for it. This person isn't an established scientist with a degree and everything, but she demands 3 million dollars before she even began researching for a treatment," Misty told him. Joey (surprisingly) finished the rest for her.
"So you were earning star chips so that you could compete in the tournament, win the prize money, then have your sisters cured of their disease."
"Yeah, but now I can't because Mai took all of my star chips." Joey and Misty sat there for a while, then suddenly, Joey jumped up with an idea in his head.
"Misty, get on your feet," Joey ordered.
"Huh? But... but why?" Misty asked.
"Just do it, we're going to find Mai."
"But what good will that do?" Misty inquired while getting up from the ground.
"You'll see. Okay, where was the last place you and Mai was, maybe she's still there?"
"Um, it was over here, follow me," Misty told him and walked off in the direction of her and Mai's dueling site, a.k.a. the cave. It took them a little while, but they arrived at the cave's entrance. Misty stopped right in front of it. "This was where we dueled."
Joey looked around until he spotted a trail of continuous shoeprints leading somewhere. "These shoeprints must be Mai's! C'mon, let go follow 'em!" Joey sprinted off following the prints. Misty ran after him, wondering just what good was all this going to do.
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"I'll be a gentleman to you; I'm allowing you to go first," Brock told Yolanda, and she smirked.
"Thank you," she replied, then looked at the 5 cards in her hand. She then pulled one up. "Hmm, this card should do it. Okay, brace yourself, because I call upon the Petite Angel!" she said and slammed the card down.
"What card is this?" Brock wondered while the card was loaded. When the monster appeared on the field, he saw all. The Petite Angel was a little pink, balloon looking creature with white wings mounted on its back and a golden circle which floated above it's head. The creature then made a petite squeaking sound (much like the sound of a Rubber ducky when you press on it) as it's battle cry.
ATK: 600 DEF: 250 (Forgive me if the Petite's Angel's ATK and DEF points are slightly off; I haven't seen the episode in which it was in in a long time, mainly because Kids WB don't show it much in the Monday-Friday reruns; they're always showing Yugi and Pegasus dueling each other)
Brock burst out into hysterical laughter. "What kind of card is that? Now I see how that guy scored a flawless victory when he dueled you. You'll never get anywhere with cards like that!" Brock said as he continued to laugh unstoppably and uncontrollably.
"You may be laughing now, but I promise you, you won't be for long! Make your move!" Yolanda demanded.
Brock was now forcing himself to stop laughing. He pulled a card from his hand, still snickering. There was still hints of laughter in his voice as he spoke. "As you wish. I choose this card, Electric Lizard, in attack mode!" Brock placed the card down and the Electric Lizard appeared on the field.
ATK: 850 DEF: 800
"Electric Lizard, attack!" Brock commanded. The monster growled and sent a small bolt of lightning directed right toward the Petite Angel, but it flapped it wings swiftly and managed to dodge the attack, squeaking cowardly. Brock was rolling with laughter as the lizard dished 2 more bolts at it, but the Angel successfully dodged them. The fourth bolt whacked it full force, and the monster shattered.
"No, my monster!" Yolanda's eyes bucked open.
Yolanda's Life Points- 1750
She frowned and said, "You haven't won this, yet Brock. Prepare to meet Saggi the Dark Clown, in attack mode!" Yolanda put the card down, and the wacky clown appeared laughing wickedly, yet crazily and jokily at the same time.
ATK: 600 DEF: 1500
Yolanda slapped down 1 extra card. "And with the magic of Negative Energy, my dark clown's attack power is doubled, meaing it's raised 600 points (ATK: 1200), making it stronger than before. Say adios to that lizard. Saggi the Dark Clown, attack!" she told the monster. It did as told and formed a black void in its hands, then hurled the attack at the Electric Lizard. The attack struck the monster head on and it screamed before vanishing off the field in a strange swirling effect.
Brock's Life Points- 1650
"Well, well, you're actually ahead of me, by 100 points," Brock commented.
"Yes, and I intend for it to stay that way!" Yolanda said boldly and stuck her neck high in the air.
"Confident, aren't we?" Brock spoke while drawing a new card from his deck. He looked it over, then looked back at Yolanda and smirked. "Well, get yourself ready for this!" Brock placed the card down. "Thunder Dragon, in attack mode! And I'm placing a card face down onto the field!" Brock yelled. The Thunder Dragon materialized onto the field, and the hidden card's holocard loaded face-down.
ATK: 1600 DEF: 1500
"Thunder Dragon, destroy that clown with Dark Thunder attack (?)!" Brock commanded. The Thunder Dragon charged up and released the attack. The bolt hit Saggi the Dark Clown full force, and the clown shrieked in pain before exploding in tiny pieces.
Yolanda's Life Points- 1450
Brock smirked and quipped, "Look whose losing now."
"That won't be for long!" Yolanda shot back immaturely and drew her next card. [Winged Dragon: Guardian of The Fortress. It won't be able to defeat Thunder Dragon, but I might be able to trick Brock into attacking the creature, and then he'll fall into my trap.] After drawing two more cards from her hand, she placed them down. "Okay, I'm placing three cards onto the field, all of them face-down." The three face-down holocards loaded in the appropiate spots to intimidate Brock. Brock began to think this over.
[I've seen this kind of move a bunch of times in my duels. One of those cards might be some type of trap layed down to go with that face-down monster. The monster itself could be strong enough to withstand Thunder Dragon's attack, so I'd better not risk attacking with it. Instead I should play another card.] Brock drew a card from his deck, then grabbed a card from his hand. "Perfect, I play the Reaper of The Cards, in attack mode! And I'm adding Rush Recklessly to it which increases its attack power by 700!" Brock threw the cards down onto the card reader in front of him, causing the monster to come out on the field.
ATK: 2080 DEF: 1930
"Reaper of The Cards, slice 'em and dice 'em, now!" Reaper of The Cards did as told and prepared to attack the Winged Dragon. Just as it was about to strike, Yolanda activated her secret trap card.
"Oh, you walked right into a trap, baby. I invoke the Spellbinding Circle!" she shouted. A golden star formed around Soul Reaper and stopped it dead in its tracks, and a blue aura appeared around it, ensuring that it couldn't move.
"No! My Reaper of The Cards!" Brock gasped.
"Didn't think I was going to strategize and plan ahead, did you? Let's just say my duel with that guy helped me clear my head. And don't forget, your monster loses 700 of its attack points, plus 700 more points since the magic card you played wears off after 1 turn anyway," she finished and laughed tauntingly.
ATK: 680
"And now, I'll flip my face-down monster face-up, and in attack mode!" she announced while doing so. The hidden card turned out to be Winged Dragon: Guardian of the Fortress. Go, Winged Dragon, Fireball Attack!!" Yolanda screeched and her monster showed its obedience by launching a large fireball straight into the heart of the bound Reaper of the Cards, obliterating it and a large chunk of Brock's life points.
Brock's Life Points- 930
"Ouch! I had no idea my trap would work that good! You're trailing by 520 points! However did that happen?" she jeered and giggled in delight.
[Yolanda's a far better duelist than I anticipated. That Petite Angel stuff was just a ploy to get me to let my guard down. Now she's knocked my life points to 930, and she's over 500 points ahead of me. She's improved a whole lot since I saw her at that tourmanent. If I wanna win this, I'd better make a good move that'll count.] "My Thunder Dragon is still strong enough to take down your guardian. "Thunder Dragon, attack!" Brock shouted, and the monster unleashed its attack at the Winged Dragon. In the rush, Brock forgot about Yolanda's other card, which she promptly flipped.
"I hid yet another magic card from you, Waboku!" Yolanda annouced. Waboku's magic reduced the Thunder Dragon's attack strength to 0, so when the bolt struck the Winged Dragon, no damage was done. "Well, I've just rendered that attack useless. Now its my turn, let's see here," she reached down and drew her next card, then placed it down onto the field to make it began its materialization. "Allright! I call out the Dark Magician, attack mode!"
ATK: 2500 DEF: 2100
"Think you can predict what happens now, Brocky boy?" Brock didn't answer, but instead he snarled at her. "Dark Magician, attack the Thunder Dragon now! Dark Magic Attack!" Yolanda's Dark Magician powered up its staff and fired a powerful purple beam right into Thunder Dragon, which shattered upon impact.
Brock's Life Points- 30
Yolanda burst out into laughter. "Look at you, Brocky boy, you're down to 30 life points. You might as well call it quits, hmm?" she teased and Brock scowled in response.
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Dow in the bowels of Pegasus's castle, a guard finished hooking Morty up to a machine. He turned it on, and some grinded food started to enter into Morty's stomach. Since the man wouldn't eat anything, Pegasus had to improvise and force the neccessary nutrients into him to keep him alive. The guard walked out of the cell and activated the force field, then returned to his post. For a while, everything was silent. The eerie surroundings of the dungeon cells only added to the silence, and it gave a distinct 'I'm deep under the earth, all alone' feeling. Suddenly, some footsteps clanked across the floor. They were heading toward the cell. The sudden noise caused Morty to arouse. He blinked to help clear his vision and wondered who it was that was coming. He figured it was Pegasus, since he was the only person around who had a reason to come see him. The force field deactivated, and a woman crossed the threshold into the cell. To Morty's utter surprise, it was Jasmine! Her pastel pink hair flowed down her back gorgeously. She was wearing a loose, rose-colored dress which reached her ankles, with white sandals on her feet. She approached Morty, smiling.
"It's been so long, darling," she whispered.
Morty couldn't believe his eye sight. Was it really her? Had she really come to set him free like he hoped? Or what if it was a trick from Pegasus? "Jasmine... is it.. really you?" he asked in a shaky voice.
"Of course, honey, it's me. I've come to see you free," she returned. She approached Morty and rubbed her hand across his bare chest. He winced when she accidentally touched a large burn (from the grease Pegasus threw on him a little while ago). "Oops, baby, I'm sorry," she apologized.
"It's... it's all right," he replied.
Jasmine sighed heavily. "Tell me, Morty, why did Pegasus kidnap you in the first place?"
Morty shook his head and sighed. "Listen, I'll tell you, but first, we need to get out of here," he rushed out.
"No, no, I wanna know. No one's coming, Morty. I incapacitated all the guards. And I don't think Pegasus is even in the castle right now. So, why avoid the question? Did you do something to make Pegasus kidnap you? Is there something going on I should know about?"
"I didn't do anything to provoke Pegasus!" Morty exclaimed in a soft tone of voice. "He started all this by abducting me from my house."
"But why?"
"I have no idea! He's mad!" Morty answered. "Listen, we need to escape."
"Is it because of the Millenium Key?" she asked while touching it.
"Y... you know about the key?"
"Yes, honey, I had my ways of finding out. If you gave it to me, I could store it in my S.C.T for safekeeping. That way, Pegasus won't have a chance at getting it," Jasmine offered.
"You don't have to worry about that. Pegasus can't get the key off my neck. He's tried to already. The Millenium Key won't come off my neck unless..." his voice trailed off. He shook his head and spoke, "C'mon, Jasmine! Hurry up and get me down from here!"
"I'm trying to!" Jasmine retorted. "It's gonna take me a while to pick these locks," she said while doing so. Jasmine picked at the locks, but so far, hadn't had any luck in unlocking them. She cursed to herself as she kept trying, getting more and more frustrated by the second. Eventually, she got them. "I got them! I got them!" she exclaimed. Morty landed on his feet since he had been hanging on the wall. Jasmine unhooked him from the machine. She started to walk away, but without warning, Morty lashed out and grabbed her by the neck. "Hey, what are you doing?!"
Jasmine struggled to get away, but Morty grabbed the key and held it onto her forehead, activating its powers. Jasmine stopped moving; she had been put into a trance. Morty closed his eyes, and the Millenium Key whisked him away into the cooridors of Jasmine's head. Morty didn't fully trust what he saw nowadays, and he had to be sure whether Jasmine was really there, or was it someone else. Morty saw visions of a shocked Pegasus within her. "Hey, what are you doing here?!" he asked. "Get out of..."
"This isn't really Jasmine, it's you, just like I suspected!" exclaimed Morty. "That's why you were so bent on finding out why 'Pegasus' kidnapped me and why you wanted me to give the key to you! No matter what you try, you'll never get this key from me, you selfish prick!" Morty had seen all he needed to see now. He opened his eyes, which returned him to the real world. "Jasmine" Pegasus continued trying to get away as Morty began choking him.
"Croquet! Croquet! Croquet!!" Pegasus shouted as loud as he could. In case the plan went awry, Pegasus had guards stationed outside. They burst into the room, and fired multiple tranquilizer darts into Morty before he could do anything. Although Morty struggled to stay conscious, the medicine took over and he drifted into unconsciousness. Pegasus easily escaped his grip and sighed a sigh of relief.
"Chain him back up and hook him back to the machine," he ordered, then walked off, heading back to his room. This was getting very tiresome. Pegasus wanted the Millenium Key, and he wanted it now.
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Mai walked gracefully through the forest with her neck high in the air. Seto Kaiba had met with her and gave her the reward, now she was on her way to verify her success wth the administrators. Finally, she had enough star chips to register for the tournament. Mai was beaming inside. Of course, she was closer to completing her mission, but there were many other reasons why she was glad she had the stars, too. She was going to be rich, very rich. Nothing was going to stop her from reaching her true objective. Mai began to imagine about what she would do and have. She would have a huge, deluxe, state-of-the-art mansion built utop a steep hill overlooking the entire Domino City metropolitan area. Beautiful meadows and gardens would be situated outside, and butlers and maids would be cooking and cleaning her house. There would be all kinds of furniture inside, a huge game room consisting of tons of party games, parlor games, board games, puzzle games, video games, everything. And it would all belong to her and only her. Mai smiled as she continued down the dirt path, her spirits high and swelled with pride. All of a sudden, someone shouted at her and snatched her from her thoughts.
"Hey, Mai, where do you think you're going?!" the person screamed.
Mai whirled around to face Joey, with Misty standing by his side. "Got a boyfriend, huh, Misty?" she asked, but was ignored. "Hey, aren't you that blonde bimbo Joey that knocked my pizza on the floor at that restaurant?"
"Yeah, that's me," Joey answered. "Listen, that was rude, nasty, and insensitive of you to do this woman like that Mai! You should be ashamed of yourself!" Joey told her.
"Do you really think that hurts me, Joey boy? Why are you and your stupid, scrawny friend pestering me?"
"I am not scrawny!!" Misty was clearly offended by Mai's insult.
"Because you took something from my friend, and now I'm going to get it back," declared Joey.
"What are you talking about? I haven't taken anything from your friend over there, but I will be glad when you two get out of my face!" Mai exclaimed and began to walk away.
"Oh no you don't!" Joey quickly ran after her, grabbed her, and spun her back around. "Guess what, Mai? You and I are going to have a little duel," Joey stated.
Mai burst out into laughter. "A duel with you?! Who do you think I am? The fact that you even suggested me dueling you is atrocious!"
"No, you're just too chicken to duel me, that's what it is."
"I am not a chicken; I just don't have time or any reason to duel you, punk!" Mai yelled.
"Yes, you are, or you would duel me! You think you're such a hotshot, why don't you prove it to me. Have a duel with me and do your worst. As a matter of a fact, I'll even put up three of my cards on this match, and if you win, you'll can have them," Joey stated.
"Hmm, now that is something worth dueling for. You know what? Since you had the guts to barge over here and demand a duel, I'm going to give it to you. I accept your challenge. Besides, no one calls me a chicken and get away with it! How many star chips?!" Mai asked.
"Nine will be fine."
"What? Nine star chips? You must be crazy, you only have six!" (she could tell by looking at his glove)
"I know, but like I said before: I'll give you three of my cards to compensate for the three stars."
"Joey!" Misty chimed, "Don't be crazy, if you lose you'll lose all your chips and three of your cards!"
"I'm not going to lose, Misty," Joey assured her, but that still didn't help Misty calm down.
"Will I be able to choose which cards I want?" Mai inquired.
"Affirmative."
"Then what are we waiting for, let's get this over with!" Mai searched through her S.C.T, looking for her dueling device. Misty walked up to Joey and tapped his shoulder.
"Joey?"
"Yeah?" Joey turned around to face Misty.
"Here," Misty said and gave him four cards.
"Huh? What are these for?"
"To help you in your duel. I'm trying to help ensure your victory."
Mai looked up and saw what Misty was trying to do. "Oh, and one more thing: if you want to duel me, then I don't want any interferance from the girl!" Mai announced.
"Hey, witch, if I want to help Joey, then I can! There's nothing you can do about it!" Misty shouted.
"Listen, girl, I'm the one with the stars you want. I have the upper hand over you. I don't have to be giving you a fighting chance to get the stars you lost back, so if you want them, I don't want you helping Joey, or giving him any cards out of your deck, understood? If you can't follow these rules, then no duel."
"I've have enough of being pushed around like a rag doll!" Misty yelled and charged for Mai, but Joey grabbed her and held her back.
"No! If you do that, you'll never get your stars back! Listen, we agree. She won't help me!" Joey told Mai, who nodded.
"A wise decision," she answered while strapping on her purple dueling system. Mai placed her deck into the deck keeper and powered up the system. Joey grabbed his red console and did the same. The stage was now set.
***Joey's/Mai's Life Points- 2000***
"Here we go, it's showdown time," Mai said as she drew five cards. Joey drew his first five cards also. The color cooridinated field grid appeared in front of them as always (red for Joey, purple for Mai). "So, who will go first?" Joey asked.
"A game of 'Guess My Number' will decide that. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 15. If your answer is a number that's within two digits of the number I'm thinking of, you can go first. Take for example, the number 4. If the number you guess are one of the two digits before and after 4, which is 2, 3, 5, and 6, then you can go first, understand? (Joey nodded) Okay, what number am I thinking of?" Mai stared Joey in the eyes while asking.
"Um... 9," he answered.
"The number I was thinking of was: 11. Since 9 is the second closest digit to 11, I guess you go first, Joey. Now let's get this show on the road."
"All right, let's duel!" Joey shouted as he played his first card. "I'll play the Baby Dragon card in attack mode!" he said, summoning the Baby Dragon.
ATK: 1200 DEF: 1000
"That's all you're playing? Your loss, because now I'm attacking with Harpie Lady, in attack mode! I'm also playing a card face-down onto the field!" Mai shouted and slapped down the two cards. She watched her Harpie Lady appear on the field.
ATK: 1300 DEF: 1400
"Harpie Lady, slash that Baby Dragon!" Mai commanded, and her Harpie Lady carried out the order, slashing the Baby Dragon and causing it to shatter into pieces.
"No, my dragon!" Joey exclaimed.
Joey's Life Points- 1900
Joey growled at Mai and fished around with his deck, then pulled out another card. "I didn't even get to play my combo. Oh well. Hmm... this time I'm playing, the Axe Raider (slapped down card) in attack mode!" The Axe Raider loaded onto the field and snarled at Harpie Lady.
ATK: 1700 DEF: 1500
"Axe Raider, go! Use Wind Blades!!" Joey shouted. The Axe Raider charged towards the frightened Harpie Lady, and its blade was raised in the air, ready for the blow. Mai chucked under her breath and waited until the last moment, then flipped over her face-down card. The Axe Raider slashed the Harpie Lady, but nothing happened.
"Why didn't the Harpy Lady shatter?" Joey was puzzled.
"Because right before your monster attacked mine, I activated Cyber Shield which increased my Harpie Lady's attack power by 500 points." Numerous gold shield pieces appeared on Harpie Lady's left leg, right leg, left shoulder, right shoulder, and chest. Afterwards, she shrilled and took a stance.
ATK: 1800 DEF: 900
"Now Harpie Lady, slash the Axe Raider, now!" The Harpie Lady charged over to Axe Raider and gave it a good slashing with her long, razor-sharp claws. Axe Raider couldn't weather the attack and shattered afterwards, along with it's holocard it was standing on.
Joey's Life Points- 1800
Joey growled. He lost his Axe Raider and another 100 life points. It was time to turn the tables. Mai cackled with joy. "Didn't think little Mai wouldn't be much to handle, hunh, Joey?"
"Shut up, Mai. You won't be laughing for long."
"And I'm supposed to be like, scared now? Ohh, I'm trembling. I'm terrified. The little blonde runt's going to defeat me!" Mai laughed even harder. "Go ahead, punk. Make your next move."
"Hey, watch your mouth, you tramp!" Joey countered.
"TRAMP?!!" Mai growled in disgust. "How dare you call me a tramp, I'll crush you for that!!!"
"Allright, time to put an end to your Harpie Lady charade." Joey drew his next card, then smiled and pulled up a card from his hand. He proceeded to place the two cards onto the card reader. "Now I'm calling out, the Flame Swordsman, in attack mode! And with the magic of Salamandra, its attack power raises 700 points!" Joey's Flame Swordsman materialized onto the field and growled.
ATK: 2500 DEF: 1600
"Oh no! The sword guy's points are higher than my Harpie Lady's!" Mai acknowledged.
"You're right, time for Harpie Lady to go bye-bye. Attack with Salamandra Flame Strike!" Joey ordered his monster. The Flame Swordsman thrusted out its sword and released a fire dragon at Harpie Lady. The fire engulfed the Harpie Lady and made it shatter into pieces.
Mai's Life Points- 1300
"Good job, Joey!" Misty commented, and Joey gave her a thumbs up, along with a wink.
"I lost 700 life points, and my Harpie Lady," Mai whined, obviously not liking the current outcome of the duel.
"And your going to lose more," Joey said confidently.
Mai drew a card from her deck, then her frown turned upside down. Her lips curved into a smirk. She then drew another card from her hand and placed the cards down onto the reader (one was face-down). "Okay, the Harpie Lady may be gone, but now I play Reborn the Monster to resurrect her from the graveyard!" The Reborn the Monster card's face transformed into Harpie Lady's card, and Mai's Harpie Lady returned to the field shrieking.
ATK: 1300 DEF: 1400
Joey laughed and said, "Is that all you can do? Flame Swordsman's attack power is way higher than Harpie Lady's, but that's your loss. Flame Swordsman at..." Joey then stopped. "Wait a minute. Mai's probably hidin' something, and I've gotta find out what it is. But should I attack? She could have a trap waiting for me the moment I come over there. But what if the face-down card she's played can affect me, even though I don't declare an attack? Or maybe she laid it out to intimidate me and scare me off from attacking so I won't obliterate her life points. What should I do? I think I know what," Joey said. Mai just looked him in the eye and did one of her famous chuckles.
"Oh, I should attack! I don't like the way she's looking at me," Joey murmered to himself, then heard another chuckle. "Ah, that's it. I'm gonna..." Joey was about to give a command, but he stopped.
"Joey, what are you going to do?" Misty inquired, and Joey shook his head.
"I dunno. I'm too skeptical about that face-down card she's played. Ah, I'm gonna attack! Go, Flame Swordsman, Salamandra Flame Strike!!" Joey shouted and his monster fired the fire dragon at the monster.
Mai chuckled. "Big mistake, Joey. I knew you couldn't resist the urge to attack me and put a large gap between our life points. Unforunately, for you, my hidden card was this trap called, Mirror Wall," she stated.
"Hunh? Oh no!" Joey watched his Swordsman's attack smacked straight into the wall, causing it to meet an equal attack from the reflection of itself in the wall. "Huh, what happened to my monster?"
"Joey, you imbecile, don't you know the power of the Mirror Wall? It stops all monsters dead in their tracks and cuts their attack and defense power in half!" she announced.
ATK: 1250 DEF: 800
"Enough for my standard Harpie Lady to do away with, but first, I'll place another card face-down," she said and slapped down the card, causing a holocard to appear face-down in the slot. "Harpie Lady, you know what to do!" she shouted. The Mirror Wall lowered and allowed her Harpie Lady to slash the weakened swordsman, which resulted in a shattering.
Joey's Life Points- 1750
"For all your talk, you only took down my score by 50 points."
"Points, schmoints, no matter how much I took off this round, I've still taken 250 points off total. Your turn," she said. Joey drew a card from his deck and put it down. "This card's strong enough to get Harpie Lady. Garoozis, attack mode!" Garoozis and its holocard loaded into battle and growled.
ATK: 1800 DEF: 1500
"Go, Garoozis, attack the Harpie Lady now!" Garoozis charged toward Harpie Lady to destroy it. All of a sudden, the Mirror Wall rose back up to protect the monster. "What's happening?!"
"You idiot! Don't you realize that Mirror Wall is a permanent trap?! You've just wasted a turn," Mai cackled as Garoozis slashed the wall five times in the shape of a star, but its reflection delivered an equal attack.
ATK: 900 DEF: 750
"Ha! Ha! Ha! You gullible fool. Harpie Lady, go!" Mai's monster instantly delivered a fatal slash to Garoozis and shattered it into pieces.
Joey's Life Points- 1350
"Now you're only 50 points away from me, Joey. What do you have to say, now?" she teased. Joey didn't respond and she chuckled. "Now its time for Part 2 of my Harpie Lady combo to be put in effect," Mai said and giggled in delight. She drew a card out of her hand and threw it down. "Another Cyber Shield, which remakes my Harpie Lady and give it 500 more attack points!" The shield pieces all materialized on Harpie Lady's legs, shoulders and chest, and she screeched in delight.
ATK: 1800
"You're turn."
Joey snarled at Mai and drew for a card. He looked at it, then looked out at the field. Mirror Wall's holocard was still laying there, which meant that the card was still active. No matter what card he drew, he wouldn't be able to get past Mai's Mirror Wall. "So the only thing I can do is go defensive. Battle Warrior, in defense mode!" Joey slammed down the card and loaded the weak monster into the duel.
ATK: 700 DEF: 1000
Mai burst out into hysterical and uncontrollable laughter, and Joey frowned. "Hey, what's so funny?! If you think you're about to win this duel, you're wrong! This duel is far from over!"
Mai continued laughing obnoxiously. Joey and Misty looked at each other. "She doesn't seem phased by that, Joey," Misty muttered.
"You don't think I just screwed up big time, do you?"
"I don't see how. All you did was place a monster in defense mode, what's so funny about that?" Misty wondered. Mai continued laughing uncontrollably. "Hey, what's so funny, witch?!" Misty yelled, and Mai finally began calming herself down.
"Hey, watch your mouth, tramp! Anyway, if you really wanna know what I'm laughing at, I'll be more than eager to let you see. Brace yourselves," she warned them, then turned over her hidden card. "The card I played face-down was this, Shadow of Eyes! Its special power is the ability to lure any monster in battle!" she explained and laughed, and Joey gasped.
"Oh no, my monster's about to attack the Harpie Lady and as soon as it does, Mirror Wall's gonna rise up to protect it, causing my monster's attack and defense points to get reduced! No, Battle Warrior, stop! Please, resist the spell!" Joey urged, but Battle Warrior would not listen to him. "Battle Warrior, you have to stop!"
"Joey, you're monster can't resist the thrall of the Shadow of Eyes even if it wanted to. Come here, Battle Warrior. Come get your big sis!" Mai called out, and Battle Warrior charged towards Harpie Lady.
"NO!! Get back!!" Joey shouted, but it wouldn't listen. Mai laughed heartily as Mirror Wall rose up to protect Harpie Lady. The Battle Warrior punched the wall and received an equal attack from its reflection, and thus it was stopped dead in its tracks.
ATK: 350 DEF: 500
"Now, here's the funniest part! As you know, when a monster attack and kills another monster, the amount of life points deducted are determined by how much of a difference the two monster's attack powers were. Harpie Lady's attack strength is 1800, while Battle Warrior is now at 350. Do the math... and you figure up a 1450 attack point difference! Joey, how many life points are currently in your bin?" Mai asked, and his face took on a sick look.
"NO!!!" he yelled, and Misty gasped in surprise.
"That's the funniest part!" Mai burst into laughter again, then shouted, "Harpie Lady, do away with Battle Warrior now!" The Mirror Wall lowered once again to allow Harpie Lady passage. It charged straight at the defenseless Battle Warrior.
"Oh no..." Joey's voice trailed off as he sunk to the ground. "I failed... Misty, I failed... I'm so sorry..." he said and watched as Harpie Lady delivered the final slash which ended the duel. Battle Warrior erupted into hundreds of tiny pieces, and the duel was now over.
Joey's Life Points- 0
"My life points, I lost!" Joey's eyes bucked open in shock. Misty covered her mouth and sighed. Joey lost... He lost all his star chips trying to win back hers. Misty felt very sick inside as she watched the holograms dissappear. Joey reluctantly ejected his stars from the glove and threw them over to Mai. She picked them up and dropped them in her pocket. She put her deck in her pocket too, then starting spinning around, joyfully.
"I won! I won!" she continued to spin around in glee. Joey looked through his deck and found the Copycat Card. He didn't want Mai to have this card, so he quickly stashed the card into his pocket. He would've stashed away the Red Eyes Black Dragon and Summoned Skull, too, but she approached him before he could.
"I'm not giving you any cards," he stated, which caught Mai off guard.
"Pardon me?" Mai asked, making sure she heard correctly.
"I said I'm not giving you any cards," Joey verified his statement.
"Hey, buster, you agreed to give me three of your cards if you lost to make up for the three star chips I wouldn't receive."
"I change my mind, you're not getting any cards," Joey said flatly.
"I see. I guess you don't know what I'll do if you don't give me the cards."
"What will you do?"
"You see, Joey, I'm not a woman to be messed with. I have connections, and I'll use them. How would you like to be framed for murder? See, I know people, and they can forge up some fake records, papers, footage of you killing someone, and notify the police. Do you really wanna spend the rest of your life either running from the police or getting raped by the gay men in the pen? You know you're far too bony to put up much of a fight. So, what will it be: Give up three of your cards and have a nice day, or spend what will feel like an eternity behind bars with gays? It's your choice," she threated.
"You can't do that," retorted Joey.
"Wanna bet?" Mai asked in a dark tone of voice. "Do you really wanna take that chance?"
"Just give her the cards, Joey, don't call her bluff," Misty told him.
Joey sighed and frowned angrily, then spoke, "Which card would you like?"
"A wise decision, yet again," she commented, and both Joey and Misty scowled at her. "Hmm... let's see," Mai looked them over for a moment then decided. "I'll take the Red Eyes Black Dragon, the Summoned Skull, and last but not least, the Flame Swordsman," Mai took them all out of Joey's hands, then turned and started walking away. She then stopped and looked back at him.
"You know, your girlfriend fared better against me than you when she dueled me." she chuckled and continued walking away. Joey was now very angry. He threw a nearby rock then flung himself down on the ground.
"What are we going to do now?" Misty asked.
"I don't know. Board the escort boat off the island."
"There has to be another way. I know, let's take the star chips back." Misty suggested.
"What do you mean?"
"When Mai's all asleep, we could go and take our star chips back.
"But that would be stealin', and she'll just call the Ruby Island security."
"That slut won't know that we did it," Misty took a seat next to Joey. "They won't know it was us, nobody will see us. She won't, they won't. Then we could stay in the tournament."
"It could've worked, but I read something in a brochure I received on the cruise ship. Unfortunately, there's a special tracking system on all the stars used in the tournament. When you have stars, they are registered under your name. When they get taken from you in a duel, the tracking system updates so that the stars will be registered under the new user (that's because you throw the stars down when you bet them in a duel). But, if you try to steal them and use them for yourselves, the stars won't be registered under your name; they'll still be registered by the person who rightfully obtained them. So, if we steal them, she can call security and tell them to track down the stars under her name. They'll eventually find us, and then we'll get arrested, so that's won't work," Joey explained. There was silence for twenty seconds, then Joey got another idea.
"Wait a minute. Yugi, he might be able help us."
"Yugi? You mean the little kid on the boat?"
"Yeah, him. He'll find a way to help us for sure. C'mon, let's find him!" Joey got up and walked off, and Misty followed him.
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Meanwhile, Yugi was claiming three star chips from another duelist. "Hey, it was a great match and you're a very good duelist," the man said to him.
"Thanks, and you were good yourself."
"Good luck on your journey," the man said and left, then Yugi sighed afterwards. So far, so good. He had ten star chips now. Just five more and he'd be on his way to the tournament. Yugi sat down under an apple tree and looked through his deck. So far, his Grandfather's deck was proving its usefulness in this whole ordeal.
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Meanwhile, Ash was still undergoing his meditation. He looked like was at peace, so Geoff got off the cushion he was sitting on and quietly stepped outside. He took a deep breath of air, then exhaled deeply. The air on the island was really clean; it was much better air quality there than back in the city. Geoff was getting rather bored of watching Ash sitting there with his eyes shut, so he decided to find someone to duel. He walked away from the tint, heading down toward the more popular dueling sites. He hoped the next duelist he fought would put up a good fight. This was one of the many reasons Geoff came to participate in this tournament: He needed a good challenge. Everyone around his neighborhood were airheaded, inexperienced noobs who couldn't put up as good a challenge as a 4-year old could. He wanted a duelist who could really give him a run for his money. He wanted someone who could really make him think about his moves. As of late, all the duels he'd been in were walks in the park. Geoff continued walking, whistling a tune while doing so. After he was out of sight, a familiar person stepped out of the bushes. And this person just happened to be the one and only Seto Kaiba. He slipped some brass knuckles on his hand, then crept toward the tint. He carefully peeped into the opening to see Ash sitting indian-style on the floor, with his back facing toward him. Seto smirked deviously.
[Just the way I need you,] he thought to himself. He quietly crept toward Ash, being extremely careful not to make one sound. However, Ash still managed to hear his footsteps. He snapped his eyes open and whirled his head around to see Seto standing there. He started getting to his feet, but Seto didn't leave him a chance. He grabbed Ash by his hair and punched him straight in the face as hard as he could, which knocked the boy out. He fell onto the ground, and Seto smirked. He checked his dueling glove to find seven stars in it. He grinned, then started dragging Ash out of the tint...
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***Brock's Life Points- 30/Yolanda's Life Points- 1450
Brock scanned the battlefield, and racked his mind trying to think of any play that could get him out of this predicament. "C'mon, Brocky boy, what's taking so long for you to make your move? I know why, it's because you know I have the advantange over you," Yolanda giggled in delight. "Oh, it feels so good to be winning."
[What am I going to do? I could try to attempt the Black Luster Ritual, but it's risky enough as is. I can't possibly pull it off with 30 life points. There has to be something in my deck to help me out. If I don't draw a card that'll reinforce my life points, she'll most likely do me in next turn. C'mon, deck, I hope I shuffled you correctly before the start of the match. I need something to bring my score back from the brink of defeat,] he thought, then reached over and drew a card. He looked it, and his face brightened up.
"C'mon, pretty boy, make your move!"
"And that's what I'll do. (draws 3 more cards out of hand) First off, I've got 2 more Thunder Dragons to put on the field, which I'll do now!" Brock slapped down both cards and brought them forth into battle.
ATK: 1600 DEF: 1500
"Then, I'll lay out this trap card called Gift of the Mystical Elf, (Yolanda gasps) which will give me 300 life points for every monster that's currently out on the field, even yours! Looks this I'm not gone after all, hunh Yolanda?" Brock teased back at her while his card went to work. Enchanted fairy dust sprung from the card and showered all over Brock, then his life points began to raise.
Brock's Life Points- 1230
Brock sighed deeply. "That puts me back in the game. And for my final move... (slaps down last card) ...I'm using the magic of this polymerization card to merge my two Thunder Dragons into one, powerful monster!" Bright light flashed as the monsters began phasing into a swirling effect. Within moments, a new dragon had found its way onto the field. "Yolanda, I introduce you to the Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon!"
ATK: 2800 DEF: 2100
"Aah! This is bad!" whined Yolanda.
"You think its bad now? Wait until you see it unleash its might on that Dark Magician of yours. Allright, Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, let's avenge the death of your predecesor. Destroy the Dark Magician with Proton Thunder Blast (?)!!" The two heads of the dragon charged a large lighting bolt in their mouths, then fired the destructive bolts straight into the Dark Magician, utterly obliterating it from the field. Winds plastered against Yolanda due to the awesome power of the monster.
Yolanda's Life Points- 1150
"Aw.. look at you. Your pride has been hurt, hasn't it?" jeered Brock. He slapped hands with Tristan and smiled.
"That was a brilliant comeback, good job," he commented.
"Thanks, but that all it is, a comeback. This duel isn't over yet, which means Yolanda still has a chance to strike back. It's her turn now, let's see what she's gonna do," Brock said and stared at Yolanda. She looked over her hand, then looked back at Brock.
"I choose to end my turn without playing anything. Make a move," she stated.
"As you wish," Brock muttered, then reached down and grabbed a card. Upon looking at it, his grin grew into an even bigger grin. [This Crush Card Virus would clinch the match for me. Yolanda would be done for if I can manage to get it onto the field. And I think I know just how. All I've got to do is give Yolanda some healthy prey to sink her teeth into.] Drawing a card, he placed it down onto the field. "I call out the Armed Ninja, in attack mode! And I lay another card face-down!" The two holocards appeared, and Armed Ninja jumped out of its card, staring at Yolanda.
ATK: 300 DEF: 300
"That's all you're doing? Well, I don't know what you played face down, but I'll have to hope for the best. With such a weak monster on the field, I can flush a lot of your life points. (slaps down card) Water Omotics, attack mode!" The holocard loaded into the center slot and released the monster into battle.
ATK: 1400 DEF: 1200
"With such a big difference in the attack strengths of our monsters, I can knock you down to 130 points. Water Omotics, get rid of the Armed Ninja!" Yolanda called out. The Water Omotics conjured a wave out of the ground and directed it right at the ninja. It struck the ninja, but before it drowned, Brock's magic card activated. Afterwards, the virus was released into the air.
"Wha... wha... what's happening?"
"I decided to infect my Armed Ninja with the Crush Card, a magic virus which restricts you from using any monster that has attack power greater than 1500."
"No, that's impossible! This can't be happening to me!" Yolanda gasped.
"Wake up and smell the coffee, Yolanda, because it is," Brock told her and she shook her head.
"No!" True to Brock's word, the Crush Card virus began infecting all the cards in the deck quickly. The words on her deck status meter read 'virus'. "But the dragon isn't getting destroyed!"
"What's the point of using the Crush Card if your monsters are affected too? The only monsters the virus affects is the adversary's, in this case, you."
"No, this can't be happening, I was winning!!" she whined.
"Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, attack Water Omotics!" Brock shouted. The monster powered up its lightning beams and struck Water Omotics square in the chest, therefore obliterating her off the field. "Time to make your move, Yolanda. What'll it be: forfeit the match, or play a monster and have it obliterated?" Brock smirked afterwards.
"I'm not giving up this easily; I play another Saggi the Dark Clown in defense mode!" she tossed her card onto the reader and summoned her monster onto the field.
ATK: 600 DEF: 1500
"Is that the best monster you can muster out of that crippled deck? Thunder Dragon, obliterate it now!" The dragon charged and released its powerful bolts of thunder and lightning straight into the clown, making it shriek before exploding. No life points were deducted from Yolanda's total.
"Ha! Ha, I've got this match won!" Brock exclaimed and slapped hands with Tristan.
Yolanda whined. "Ohh, what do I do?" She wearily looked through her hand, and all the cards their had more than 1500 attack points. She drew a card out of her deck, and played it since it was within the limitations. "Man- Eater Bug, in defense mode." (it loaded)
ATK: 450 DEF: 600
"Hey, Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, you know what do to. Proton Thunder Blast!!" The dragon launched the bolts of lightning right into the chest on the Man-Eater Bug and blew it off the field. Yolanda still didn't lose any life points.
"Yolanda, why don't you give up? You're bound to using monsters with less than 1500 attack points, and my Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon has enough attack power at its disposal to wipe out anything you grab. Forfeit the match and save yourself some embarrassment, and time," Brock jeered.
Yolanda drew another card from her deck and played it. "Kuribo, in attack mode!" The little brown furball found its way into the duel.
ATK: 300 DEF: 200
Brock laughed. "Is that all you've got? I thought Saggi was something, but this little runt? It's the weakest monster that's ever been made for the game. You can't be serious playing that, especially in attack mode?"
"Just go ahead and attack it," Yolanda said, and Brock nodded.
"If you insist. Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, fry that little furball now!" And that's exactly what Brock's dragon did. The lighting fired from the dragon, plastered into Kuribo and utterly obliterated it, along with Yolanda's life points.
Yolanda's Life Points- 0
"Allright, Brock! Good move!" Tristan exclaimed, and Brock winked at him.
Yolanda sighed and frowned. She ejected her stars out of the glove and threw them over to Brock, who caught them. She then walked away from the site, tears beginning to well up in her eyes. Brock powered down his system and ran over to Yolanda.
"Hey, Yolanda!" he shouted, making her stop. She didn't turn around. "It was a good duel, Yolanda. You should be proud of yourself, you're a pretty good duelist," Brock said and extended a hand for her to shake. But instead she simply ran away as fast as she could, not being able to bear the fact that she'd lost. Brock frowned in disgust, then yelled after her, "Hey, I was trying to be nice!" He sighed, then turned to Tristan. "What, is my hand not good enough for her to shake?"
"Forget her. Well, that makes eight star chips," Tristan said.
"Yep. Looks like I'm advancing pretty well in this sub-competition. How about you, Tristan? How did you fare?"
"I won 4 stars in a duel with this goth dude. He was majorly weird, and at first he seemed pretty hard, but he turned out to be easy to beat," Tristan replied to Brock's question.
"Really? That's good," Brock said. "Hey, give me another orange," he requested. Tristan grabbed an orange out of the fruit bucket and gave it to Brock. He bit into it happily. "Yummy," he muttered, enjoying the sweet, fruity goodness. Tristan fetched a strawberry out of the basket and started eating it.
"Man, this island really has some good fruits, wouldn't you say?" he asked.
"Uh-huh. These are some of the best oranges I've had in my entire life," Brock responded. While eating their fruits, the two boys began to talk about other things, such as cars, pretty girls and their boobs, etc.
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--Episode Written By: GateGuardian3500-- What did you think? Was it good? I sure hope so. I don't have anything to say, so goodbye. Hopefully it won't take me long to create the next episode (which will really be all-new, not a remake)!