Disclaimer: You know the drill.

A/N: In case you're wondering why the finals are beginning already, I got bored of just doing regular duels and wanted to "spice up" the action, and plus if the way things are going by the way I've planned out, the finals won't end for some more chapters. About 15, for those of you nosey ones.

BUT ON WITH EL STOREE!!

Chapter 9 and a half: Getting Ready

Yugi and Co. were hanging around in Joey's room, talking about the tournament tomorrow. "Well, isn't Yugi the lucky one? Going against Kaiba second match tomorrow." Mai said, breaking the silence.

"Sh.shut up, Mai!" Joey yelled back at hear. "Don't freak the little man out."

"I was just saying the facts." Mai retorted. "Oh, don't forget Joey, I'm ready to knock you out tomorrow."

"Oh.puh-leeze. I creamed you at Duelist Kingdom and I'll gladly whoop you again!" Joey remarked, shutting Mai up.

"Oh, well, let's just get a good night's sleep and worry about all this BS tomorrow." Tea said.

"Good idea, screw this for tonight."Joey said turning out his light. "Oh, yeah, and if you don't mind, get the hell up out of my room." And with that he fell asleep.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEXT DAY AT 11:30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In everyone's room a voice came over a P.A. system, Seto's of course.

"Duelists-WAKE UP!! The finals will begin in ½ an hour, Duelists #1 and 2 please report to the cyber room by 11:50, oh and anyone not in the Cyber Room by 12:00 will be disqualified. If you can have such an attitude by not even showing up to watch another's duels, then no one shall watch yours. That is all."

"He should be talking" Mai said to herself, waking up.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SAME DAY AT NOON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Joey had barely made it into the Cyber Room as the doors automatically locked. He could see a platform that looked like an air hockey table, exactly like it.

So, Kaiba walked in and after giving one of his oh-so-powerful speeches, he announced for the finals to begin. The platform was just like an air hockey table except for one thing, the scores weren't there. 4000 LP on each side was. But as Rex and Mako began to draw opening hands, Kaiba stopped them, and handed them a new type of Duel Disk, one just for the finals. The logo said DDX2, for the Duel Disk X2, it held more room, sort of a different style, and it had room for five magic/traps. A/N: The regular Duel Disk only has room for 4, as in "Master of Magicians" Part 2, when Yami plays a magic/trap down and says "I'll play my last" and then Arkana does the same announcing "We both have 4 cards face down and 1 Dark Magician on the field."

Anyway, Rex and Mako drew their opening hands and Seto Kaiba shot his hand straight up and announced. "Let the Duel Begin!"

So, that's it.hence the name "Chapter 9 and a half". The only reason behind this is because I have no dinosaur or aqua cards yet. Lousy reviewers. So, leave me one in a review (more than 5 at least please) and the more cards I get, the faster this thing can be updated.

Until next time,

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