The man grinned as he placed his card on the table. "I summon the ultimate obedient fiend (3500/3000)!" A huge red demon stood behind the man. "And because I have no cards in my hand or on the field except him, I can destroy you with on blast!" The monster let out an earth -shattering roar. "Now my beast, attack his Magnet Warrior! Inferno Wheel!" A jet stream of fire hit Yami's monster causing it to shatter into millions of pieces (Y: 5850).
"My turn," the Pharaoh said as he drew. 'Tch, this won't help me.' " I end my turn."
" Perfect," said the man. "I'll play a very familiar card, Raigeki!" Thunder struck the magician and he disappeared laying dead. "Now my fiend! Inferno Wheel!" Yami took the blast full force (Y: 2350). "AH! THE HEAT!" Scorch marks were left all over his face and arms.
The spirit drew his next card. "I set one card face down in defense mode and lay two cards face down." " I play another Mystical Space typhoon." The man said. "Destroying your face down card." The cyclone of air disappeared. " W-what happened?" "I active, Magic Jammer! My other face down card!" "A minor set back, but still, Inferno Wheel!" "Not so fast, I play Magic Cylinders!" Two large cylinders appeared one took the blast and a split second later it hit the man full force knocking the hood off from his face and leaving him bloody and injured (?: 3100). 'No, it can be…' thought Yami. "Rishid?" "Fool, I only speak through him." A dark voice said. 'I only have a weak control over this man, his will is too strong.' he said to himself. " I play raigeki break, destroying your monster!" Yami called out. " Now I flip my monster into attack mode, go Gemini elf attack him directly!" (? /R: 1100) "I play Vorse raider and kamikaze him right into you elf!" the mind slave declared (Y: 2350) (? /R: 1100). " This duel ends now!" Yami said. " For I play Monster reborn! To revive my Summoned skull! Lightning Strike!" (? /R: 0). Rishid fell to the ground and the millennium symbol on the spirit's fore head began to glow. "Release his mind!" he said. An earth-shattering crack was heard and Rishid was free. The shadow realm began to disappear. "I'll take him my Pharaoh." A voice behind yami said. The spirit jumped, "Shadi have you been here the whole time?" "I sensed a dark force greater than those you have conquered, here. Let me take Rishid back to his home." Shadi and Rishid disappeared right before the spirit's eyes.
~Jounouchi's house~
'How am I going to get into that tournament?' Jounouchi thought. He looked through his deck and took cards out while putting new cards in. 'I've been able to get into the finals of just about every tournament I've been through…' "Big brother?" a voice behind him whispered. "Huh? Shizuka what is it?" "You might need this." She said while handing him an envelope. "My invitation! Where did you get it?" "I got it yesterday and I was trying to give it to you but you left really quickly." "Thanks, sis you really saved me, now I can go to the tournament." "I just want to help. Looks like I did."
~Ryou's Apartment~
" Let's see, my deck at battle city was okay, but it wasn't great. What should I use?" He looked around his room digging through shelves when he came upon a card, Black Luster Soldier- Messenger of Creation (3000/2500). Ryou read the card's effect and stared at it. 'Where did I get this?' he thought. Then he thought back, his dad had given him this card after coming home from Egypt. 'It's extremely powerful and could control a whole game…' his dad had mentioned. It was a one of a kind card that not even Yugi had seen. 'This will be my deck.' he thought. 'Not even the ring will stop me from changing MY deck.'
~Domino Pier~
"Welcome duelists!" Seto Kaiba said to the crowd. "This tournament will be like no other. We will cross the ocean to the Duel Monster Sanctuary where the dueling can begin." He then pointed to the four boats. "You will board one of these boats according to skill and your previous records from various tournaments." 'You will what according to what? My previous record in tournaments, with mine I'll be getting on the first boat.' Jounouchi thought. " Just place your deck into the deck reader slot and it will give you a number, 1, 2, 3, or 4." Kaiba announced.
Kaiba placed his deck into the slot, and a #1 appeared where the life point count was.
"Hey Jonouchi? What did you get?" Mai Kujaku asked. "Mai? I didn't see you, well I haven't put my deck in yet." Jounouchi responded. "Well watch this," She placed her deck into the reader and a #2 appeared. " Not bad, I wonder what little Yugi got." Some duelists saw, Mai's number. "Whoa she got a two! I only have a four." "Two would mean she really good." "No kidding baka!"
Yugi put his deck in, and a 1 appeared. 'Well we know where to go, right Yami?' /Yes, no doubt Kaiba expects us to be in the top three. / 'I'll stay in control right now Yami, after last night you seem really tired. What happened anyway?' / Rishid was under mind control and tried to kill us…/ 'Oh, well you should rest I'll need you during the tournament.' /Thank you, Yugi. / "Now I better find the others…" As he walked around he saw many familiar faces, Dinosaur Ryuzaki, Inspector Haga, Ryou Bakura and… "Jounouchi! Over here!"
Jounouchi put his deck in and a 4 appeared. 'What the?' "Kaiba I'm going to kill you! YOU KNOW I DID BETTER THAN THIS YOU SCUMBAG!" he screamed.
Haga put his deck in, a 4 appeared.
Dinosaur put his deck in and 3 appeared.
Ryou put his deck in and a 2 appeared. 'Better than I expected, I guess.'
Towards the back of the crowd two cloaked Duelists put their decks in, both Duel disks had a shining #2 on them. "Sister, we will protect you. Right?" one said. "Yes, master she is too dear to us." The other replied.
"Jounouchi!" A fifteen-year-old girl ran up to him. " I got you a present!" she held it up to him. Jounouchi took it and ripped up the package. " Two Emerald dragons? Thanks Shizuka!" Yugi had finished reading the rulebook; "We'll need to present our entry cards before boarding our ships." He then looked around, "Hey, where's grandpa?" "He probably had to use the bathroom or something, Yugi. No can be immune to the call of nature." Jounouchi said. Everyone stared at him, "What?"
"Everyone it is time to board! A speaker said, "Please have your entry cards ready!" "Bye, you guys!" Shizuka said. "Good luck!" Honda, and Anzu called out. "Now we get on a boat." Honda told the other two. "Need to sneak into one of those crates that are being loaded onto the fourth dueling ship. The three of them snuck into one of the loaded crates.
The ships left port leaving a small crowd behind on the pier. Yugi was standing at the front of the first ship. 'Whoever tried to attack Yami and I are probably at this tournament. We'll just need to be careful. It's time to Duel!'
A/N: the last part was a bit cheesy but stay tuned for the next chapter.