Fieren: Wow, I have actually gotten reviews. Thanks to all who've been reading. I really appreciate having my work being read. I apologize for not updating for a while, I've had a bit of writers block, but I hope this next chapter doesn't disappoint.
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Chapter 6: Double Threat
The robed man grimaced at the card he drew. Not helpful in the slightest. Especially not with the Android Psycho Shocker dominating the field. The robed man looked at his hand, all traps with the exception of one very useless monster. It's points were low and it had no effect, but he liked it. With a sigh, he set it on the field in reversed position.
"I set one monster and end my turn." He said after swallowing a lump in his throat.
Jounouchi drew and glanced at his card only briefly. "I like this card. I got it a while ago." Jounouchi set it into the Magic zone and pressed the button that would activate it. "I send this card from my hand to the cemetery to destroy one of your monsters. Tribute to the Doomed is great ain't it?" Jounouchi laughed as the robed man's monster was swallowed by mummy bandages and squeezed to death. "Now I summon Baby Dragon (1200/800) in attack mode!" The tiny yellow dragon burst onto the field and growled. "Both of my monsters are attacking you directly!"
The dragon and the android both leapt at the man, and as he watched in fear, the monsters slammed into him, and he fell to the ground, his chest heaving. More then half of his life points were gone. He had almost lost a full seven eighths.
J: 5300, RM: 1300
"A lucky move, boy. I will win this match though." The robed man drew from his deck and burst into a grin. "I activate Raise Dead on my Injection Angel Lily! The pink-haired nurse re-appeared and winked at the dumbfounded Jounouchi.
"You don't even have the Life Points to pay! What a jackass move that was!" Jounouchi laughed and just kept on laughing.
"I don't have the Life Points yet. I now activate God's Grace. This Magic card increases my Life Points by 2000, is it a jackass move now? You should really wait until people finish up before you jump to conclusions like that. I'm not done either. I now activate Thunder Bolt! This all-mighty (A/N: For once that's true. Hah!) Magic card will annihilate all of your monsters!"
From the sky, a black cloud appeared, and two bolts of lightning struck Baby Dragon and Android Psycho Shocker, both burst into red flames and disappeared. Jounouchi was in shock. He had no hand or anything on the field.
"Now I'll pay my 2000 Life points and raise my Angel's attack points by another 3000!"
J: 5300, RM: 1300
The needle she was straddling grew in size, and launched at Jounouchi. It struck him right in the chest, and he fell to a knee. He looked at his Life Point read-out and saw his Life Points fall to 1900.
J: 1900, RM: 1300
"Another move like that and you'll have no Life Points left. This duel is in the bag." The robed man laughed as Jounouchi drew his card.
"I play the Magic card, Scapegoat." Four goat tokens appeared on the field.
"A small reprieve from damage." The robed man drew his card and ordered his attack. One goat was wiped out by the red-haired angel.
Jounouchi drew his card and set it into the magic/trap zone. He then ended his turn.
"No snappy quips? Nothing at all?" The robed man laughed and drew. He ordered his attack again, and the angelic nurse crushed another goat.
Jounouchi drew. "Wow… All that grand-standing and you failed to even keep yourself defended? You're an idiot! I play Alligator Sword in attack mode (1500/1200) and now I'll activate Graverobber, I'll activate your Thunder Bolt magic card!"
The pink-skinned tomb thief grabbed the green-backed card and set it loose on the robed man's monster. In a dazzling display of lightning and thunder, the Injection Angel Lily was wiped out in the same way that Baby Dragon and Android Psycho Shocker had been.
"Now, take out the rest of his Life Points!" The green, leathery-skinned, armoured reptile leapt at the robed man and slashed him right down the chest. He screamed out and fell on his back. His Life Points were gone, and Jounouchi had won his entire deck.
The holograms disappeared, and Jounouchi stepped towards the sprawled out man, from his Duel Disk, he snatched his cards. With a muttered thanks, Jounouchi gathered his things and continued on towards the train station. His sister was waiting for him. Jounouchi glanced down at his watch, and realized he was fifteen minutes late, he took off down the road, and was gone. The robed man propped himself up on his elbows. His cohorts were also just getting their breath back.
"Master Laevenne will not be pleased about this, Ronald." The shortest of the three said.
"I know." Ronald said through gritted teeth.
Seto strode down a long, sterile hall. His dark coat was trailing behind him. The R&D Division of KaibaCorp was one the tall young mans favorite places to be. He was putting through development the same Duel Disk that the elder Mutou had used. Seto clenched his fists and gritted his teeth at the memory. He had lost, horribly. His time in America had rusted his skills. That would change. Seto had steeled himself to revenge. A shorter man with brown hair and a white coat strode over to Seto.
"Welcome, Mr. Kaiba." The man said with a short bow.
"Drop the pleasantries, Doppler. How is the production going?" Seto continued walking, and Doppler began walking to keep up.
"The testing phase has been determined to be inconclusive. The manufacturing of the Disks themselves has proceeded on schedule, but the software behind them is glitchy." Doppler explained.
"Glitchy, how?" Seto asked in an aggravated tone.
"The solidification program has been acting up, and sending electric shocks through the user. It amazes me that the Mutou boy didn't experience this problem." Doppler said.
"You're easily amazed, Doppler. I hand-crafted the technology myself on that one. Your reverse engineers are poor. If they fail one more time on the programming, they're fired. Consider this their first and only warning, I expect you to deliver the message." Seto spat at the smaller man.
"Of course." Doppler said quietly.
Seto continued on down the hall, his coat billowing out behind him. Doppler glared, and flipped the brown-haired young man the bird.
Jounouchi walked into the station, and found his younger sister near the back, and the security guards room. She was timid, and scared easily. It had seemed like she'd changed in Battle City, but she had friends with her then, now, she was alone. Jounouchi sauntered over.
"Hey, Shizuka." He said, spreading his arms for her.
"Katsuya, what took so long?" Shizuka asked, obviously relieved now.
"I ran into a little unexpected trouble, but I dealt with it." Jounouchi beamed.
"That's my brother." Shizuka said proudly.
Jounouchi led the way from the station with his younger sister following. She had some cooking to do. Jou felt a little bad for making her cook, but, who was Jou kidding. He couldn't cook. As they were leaving the station, the three robed men were back.
"You guys just don't give up do you?" Jounouchi asked incredulously.
"We have a job to do, and we won't let you have us disappoint our Master." The one from before said.
"Get lost. I beat you losers already." Jounouchi said. He was getting mad.
Behind the robed men, came Yuuhi and Ryou. Yuuhi looked up and saw Jounouchi and his sister.
"Hey, Jou." Yuuhi called up.
The robed men looked back, and glared at Yuuhi and Ryou. Ryou took a step back, and Yuuhi just looked curiously at the men before him. He pointed at them.
"What's with these guys?" Yuuhi asked.
"There are three now, let's back off." The large one said.
The three dark-robed hoodlums took off into the busy streets, and left the four scratching their heads. Jounouchi looked down at Yuuhi and Ryou, he was lucky they'd come along. He knew Ryou was too timid to fight, but the spirit of the ring would protect him if he had to, and Jou wasn't sure about Yuuhi's ability to fight. Had it come to it, Jou knew he could've counted on them. He looked to his sister, who still looked very frightened. Yuuhi and Ryou climbed the stairs and stopped two steps down from Jou and Shizuka.
"What was that all about?" Yuuhi asked.
"Those assholes picked a fight earlier, ended up turning into a duel. Fucking sore loser, I tell you. That's why I was late, Shizuka." Jou turned to his sister.
"You couldn't just walk away?" She asked.
"They would have followed me, look what just happened!" Jou argued.
"Where're you two going?" Ryou asked quietly.
"Katsuya invited me over for dinner, also so I could see his new place." Shizuka answered.
"Is it far from here?" Yuuhi asked.
"Not really." Jou answered. "If you wanna be a big man and walk with me, be my guest, but I don't need help protecting my sister."
"I'm just trying to be helpful, Jou. There's no need to get all fussy." Yuuhi muttered as Jou and Shizuka descended the stairs, and turned into the street, and out of sight.
Yuuhi and Ryou left and continued on their way. Yuuhi had thought it odd that Ryou wanted to be friends. Originally, he had seemed sceptical, almost frightened of Yuuhi. Yuuhi had put that aside now, and was just walking around with his new friend, both eagerly searching for something to do with their time. As they walked down the crowded streets, they eventually came to an arcade. They went inside and found hordes of people surrounding someone at a fighting game machine. One guy moaned in agony. He then started talking, as the winner boasted.
"Any new challengers?" He asked to the room as Ryou and Yuuhi passed. They found another fighting game and input their money and started playing.
Ryou, what are you doing?Bakura asked his more timid hikari.
Playing a game, Bakura.Ryou answered quietly.
Have you noticed anything like what happened last time we saw this boy?Bakura asked.
No, I'm not as attuned to the magic of the Ring as you.Ryou answered.
You think I don't know that?!Bakura spat. Your only task is to look for any oddities, and you can't even do it, I should just take over and find out for myself.
No!
Excuse me? You want to die?Bakura threatened.
Ryou silenced himself, and surrendered control to Bakura. The light brown of Ryou's eyes glazed over, and were replaced with the harsh crimson of Bakura's. Yuuhi had finished the game during the change.
"So, Ryou, what do you want to do now?" Yuuhi asked. "Whooping your butt at a fighting game is good entertainment for a while, but, I'm bored of it now." Yuuhi laughed.
What would Ryou say to this, Bakura asked himself. "I actually think we should just keep walking around." That was lame.
"I've seen enough of the city today, I think. I'd actually like to go home. I'm a little tired." Yuuhi replied with a light yawn.
"No!" Bakura snapped. "I mean, come on, the night is young." Bakura replied, trying his best to look non-threatening after his lapse into his own personality.
"That's true, but…" Yuuhi said.
"No buts, we'll find something to do." Bakura ordered as the two marched out of the arcade, and back onto the street.
As the two entered the streets, they turned and came face-to-face with the same robed men from before, or so it would seem. The robes made appearances ambiguous and deceiving. They conversed silently for a moment, and then darted behind the two to block their escape.
"Bakura Ryou, we challenge you to a duel." One said.
Bakura's eyes narrowed at this, these fools did not know the horrors they were setting upon themselves…
Across town, Yuugi was walking home with his hands shoved into his pockets. He thought back to what Anzu had said about helping him with his nightmares. It was then that he realized she had borrowed one of his books that he'd need for his homework that night. He ran to catch up with her, she was running also, and her long dancer's legs would make it hard for Yuugi to catch her, but he would certainly try. It wasn't long before he turned into the park she had to pass through to get to her house, when Yuugi heard a familiar scream. Yami quickly took over Yuugi's body and ran as fast as he could. He soon found Anzu being surrounded by three robed men.
"Stop right there!" Yami roared at the men.
They turned, and their eyes met with Yami's. His eyes were like ice, cold, and hard. They spoke quietly to each other, then two of them grabbed Anzu and held her away, as the third moved in on Yami.
"Mutou Yuugi, leave now." He ordered.
"I don't think so." He replied icily. "Unhand Anzu and be on your way."
"I'm afraid it is my turn to decline, Pharaoh." The robed man cast his hood back. He had died green hair, and a ring through his left nostril. His eyes were sunken, making his features seem more ghoulish, and pronounced. "Let's settle this with a duel."
"Very well." Yami dug through Yuugi's backpack and pulled his Duel Disk. Yuugi and Jou often played during lunch hour on the roof. He pulled his deck out, and soon found the Life Points had changed from 4000 to 8000. A rule change.
"If I win, you surrender the Millennium Puzzle, and the girl is hours. If you win, she goes free."
"Why keep the girl?" Yami asked as he shuffled his deck.
"We're lonely men, Pharaoh." He leered back at Anzu. Yami looked helplessly at the situation.
"I agree to your terms. I will not lose!" Yami set his deck into his Duel Disk.
End of Chapter 6
Wow, I ought to have a barrel full of fun writing two duels at once sarcasm. Why would I do this to myself, you ask? I thought it was odd that I had not written Yami a duel yet, and since Bakura kicks arse, he deserved one too. Please R&R!