Next!
Dueling is a Breeze!
The next day, Rikku had told PJ that she would be hanging around Joey until Seto would give his greetings before the tournament started and that she would hang around Tea and Yugi all around the day.
Rikku arrived there and heard Joey yelling on the phone. It was to Tristan since she heard his name about once or twice.
She waited about a minute after she was done until she knocked. "Joey, are you ready yet?"
"Hold on!" He bursted out scaring Rikku a bit.
"What's wrong with you?"
"My dumb luck last night!" As they began to walk, he started shaking his messing his hair out of anger. "I've got to get back my Red-Eyes!!"
"That was kinda dumb to duel before the tournament even started Joey. Even though those thugs wouldn't let you go."
"But I had no choice!"
"Yet, if you didn't have no choice you should've chose a different favorite card of yours that didn't hold much value to you like your Flame Swordsman, huh??" She looked at him as that was the smarter thing to do. "That could've saved you the embarrassment and the sacrifice of losing your precious red-eyes."
He acted all arrogant at first but he was still angry. "Yeah, you're right. But I'm still goin' to make dat guy pay!"
"Just don't hurt yourself if you're going to make this guy pay."
As she said that when they were walking, he looked at her with sort of a weird feeling. Other than his sister, here was another girl that really cared for him. Weird.
"Well, I'll see you around Joey."
"Hey! Where ya off to? Aren't ya gunna watch me pulverize the rare hunter creep?!"
"As much as I would love to see that, you told me to go visit your sister, right? And I have my own battles to go too!" She raised her hand that had the dueling disk on it and waved good-bye.
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Along time passed before Rikku got to the hospital and before you knew it, she had all her locator cards and 3 new rare cards. That's how good the girl is...teehee...
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She decided to spare some time at the hospital so when she got to Serenity's door, PJ was about to leave.
"Rikku!"
"Is that Rikku?" Serenity's voice over came them. "Let her in!"
"Hiya PJ," greeted Rikku.
"Shouldn't you be dueling right now?"
She held up her locator and rare cards that made her mouth drop.
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PJ had arrived at Tea's house not too late as she came through, "Sorry I was late! I over slept! Now let's go look for Yugi!"
"Right!"
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As they both looked, there was no sign of him. But someone tapped both of them on the shoulders causing Tea to use her self-defense not realizing it was Yugi's grandpa behind them.
"Okay! Okay! I give! I give!"
Tea sweat dropped as PJ apologized for her. "Sorry about that Mr. Moto! Tea's a little too anxious to find Yugi."
A sound of noise came from Tea's purse as she answered it, "This Tea...hi Tristan(I'm recalling all these scenes from memory since I haven't seen the episodes in like awhile so flame me. IT's memory!!)...what? Okay, we'll do it right away!" She hung up and told the other two, "Come on! We need to find Joey! Rikku's on her way finding him now! He needs a major confidence boost!"
PJ ran first. "Then let's go!"
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After a long time of searching, they had finally found him in a crowd. It seems like he was still in his first duel against some guy named Espa Roba. And it looked like he didn't think he could win.
"Joey!"
He turned and gasped at the sight of his friends coming over. "Come on Joey! You can win!" yelled Tea.
"Yeah Joey! This psychic guy is a fake! He's not giving off an aura of telepathy!" shouted PJ. "And besides, think about your sister! You and her are a team and she believes in you! And even though she isn't right here...Rikku does too!"
"Hey yeah!" Joey's attitude started lightning up a bit.
"Just go for it Joey! You can win!" shouted the old man in victory.
"Yeah! I'll do it! Huh?"
He finally saw Rikku running up to them catching her breath.
Joey thought that she cut her dueling time just to watch him go at it. (How cute!!!) "Hurry and beat this psychic phony, Joey!" She punched her fist in the air as Joey did the same. He turned back to his duel and it continued.
After a few moments reclaiming himself, Joey won his first duel in Battle City. Claiming locator cards and Jinzo was a breeze!
"Oh that was awesome!"
"Superb work my friend!" hailed PJ.
"Thanks guys, I couldn't have done it with out you all. " He looked at Rikku who was beaming at him. "I can't believe you cut your duels just for me..."
"Huh? Joey, I didn't."
"What?!"
"Oh yeah, while you dueling she stopped at your sisters and she already completed all her duels. She has her locator cards and everything."
"WHAT?!" His jaw dropped even more.
"Now you wonder why she has her full set of 5 stars and you only have 3?" Tea nudged him.
"Don't worry about it Joey! Now I can come and watch you duel! Now let's go!"
The girls walked ahead as Joey just stood there.
"Having some doubts on dueling, eh Joey?" joked Grandpa Moto.
"Yeah, right. I'll beat Rikku in the finals, no problem-o!"
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Ooh, as best as she is in stealing she's good in duel monsters too!