DSlifer: The tournament starts! Today there's going to be lots of dueling and meeting a few new characters. And wow summer is so boring. This chapter begins about a week from the last chapter. Oh and the duels, will be about Yan unless Yan goes and sees someone else duel.
Chapter 5: Tournament Preliminaries 1
Yan woke up early in the morning, more early than he ever had. He woke up not because today was the day the Duelist Legacy Tournament begins, but because he's stomach was growling in hunger. After he dressed and eaten a breakfast well enough to satisfy his hunger, he decided on taking a walk outside to freshen up his mind for the incoming Preliminary Matches.
Leaving after he grabbed his deck and washed the dishes, Yan wandered peacefully around the city. He walked around the block, until he noticed his friend Astana Kaiba. Astana was a cute girl his age, if not younger, and is among the few he would call a friend. She's the daughter of Seto Kaiba, and the heir to Kaiba Corp. Her mom and dad divorced and lives separately now, but Astana is still rich since her father sends them money and still wants her to inherit Kaiba Corp. Astana is one of the best duelists in their school, using an Oijia Water Deck, combining the power of Instant Win and the high attack power of Water monsters. Astana was also entering the Duelist Legacy Tournament.
"Hi Astana," greeted Yan. "What are you doing out so early in the morning?"
"Good Morning," replied Astana. "You know, I should be asking you the exact same question. You usually don't wake up till after 10. This must be a new record for you."
Yan blushed a little at the comment. Truth was, he had a crush on Astana since the first time he met her. "Uh… Well I woke up early today, and wanted some fresh air for the Preliminary Matches."
Astana always suspected Yan had a crush on her, noticed him blushing, and decided to tease him a little. "Are you sure that's what you are doing? You sure you aren't some kind of Peeping Tom, trying to spy on me?"
Yan's face became really red after that last comment. "No, of course not, I would never ever do something like that."
Astana giggled when she saw Yan's face and heard his reply. She knew he would never do anything like that. Since out of all her friends, Yan was her closest and best friend. "Don't worry. I know you wouldn't do anything. You're too innocent, though it'll be hard to trust you with your face so red."
Seeing Yan's face grow redder, Astana finally laughed and said she was joking. She challenged him to a duel as a warm up for the Preliminaries.
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Yan drew his cards slowly. He remembered that every time he duels Astana, he always lost to her. This time he decided to really impress her.
As the challenged, he went first and set a monster and 1 card facedown on the field. "Your turn."
Astana set 2 cards facedown and activated A Legendary Ocean. Next she summoned out Terror King Salmon (2400/1000) in attack mode and attacked the defense monster.
"You attacked my Heaven's Barrier (0/2800). So you take 200 damage," Yan said as he tried to calm down. He just had his best defense monster nearly destroyed on the first turn.
"Doesn't matter, it won't make that much of a difference, once I activate that card." Astana ended her turn after pointing at the card she talked about.
Yan now had a hard choice ahead. Not sure if she was bluffing, he knew he had to destroy the card. But if she was bluffing, then he would waste a good card. Fearing that it was her Oijia Board, he activated his Dust Tornado on Astana's facedown card.
"You took my bluff! You destroyed my Butterfly Dagger Elma. Not only do you waste a good card, but I also get this card back because of it's effect."
Yan was nervous now and set 2 cards facedown along with another monster.
"I'll set a monster facedown mode and have my Salmon attack your facedown monster."
"You attacked my Old Vindictive Magician (450/600)! Now I destroy your salmon."
Astana ended her turn after setting one more card facedown.
Yan activates Pot of Greed and drew Vorse Raider (1900/1200) and Premature Burial. "I summon Vorse Raider and attack your facedown monster."
"You attacked one of my signature cards! My Well Kept Tortoise now has a defense of 7400 because of your attack."
"No! This can't be!" He looked at their Life Points and felt kind of discouraged.
(Yan: 2500 Life Points/Astana: 7800 Life Points)
Astana drew her card, and summoned out her Giga Gagagigo (2450/1500). "I'll have my monster attack your Vorse Raider."
"I activate my Trap Card, Gods and Demons Treaty." Yan rolled a dice and got a 2. "Now I won't take any damage for 2 turns."
Yan draws and summons out his Forgiving Maiden (850/2000) in attack mode.
Astana sets a facedown card and summons her Gagagigo (1850/1000) in attack mode. She attacks Yan's Heavan's Barrier.
"Wait! I tribute my Forgiving Maiden to get back the Heaven's Barrier you destroyed." Yan draws and after removing 1 Dark and 1 Light Monster from his graveyard out of play, special summons his Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning (3000/2500) in attack mode. Then he sets a monster facedown and equipped his Black Luster Soldier with United We Stand. Now he attacks Gagagigo and Giga Gagagigo. "You lost 2500 Life Points."
"2500 Life Points doesn't' matter because I activate my Oijia Board."
(Yan: 2500 Life Points/Astana: 5300 Life Points)
Astana draws and than summons out her Levia-Dragon Daedulus (2600/1500). "Now even without using Oijia Board I can win."
"Not true, since I activate my facedown card, Trap Hole. It destroyed your monster and now your, defenseless."
"I activate Monster Reborn to get back my Levia-Dragon Daedulus."
"I activate my other facedown card, Chaos Storm, It destroyed all our magic and trap cards. Now your Levia-Dragon is useless."
"Then I'll activate Water Destruction and end my turn."
Yan draws and smiles. "I play my Ditto (0/0) card. This monster can copy any monster that was ever used. And I pick your Levia-Dragon Daedulus." Yan has his Black Luster Soldier attack Levia-Dragon Daedulus and attack again, than have Levia-Dragon Daedulus attack directly. "You just lost 6000 Life Points."
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Yan smiled happily as he realized that he won against her for the first time. "Thanks for the warm up. Now I know I can get past the Preliminary Matches."
Astana, happy for her friend, wishes him luck during the matches. She than takes out a card and said it was a gift for winning her for the first time. What she didn't mention was that she had ordered this card especially for him.
Yan thanked her and looked at the card, Sacred Temple of Light. He was surprised that she would give such a good card to him for free.
"Well, that card is a Light card and I have a water card so…"
Yan understanding her, thanked her over and over again.
"You should get ready for the Tournament Announcements. It's in an hour. I'll see you at the Meeting Place. Bye." Astana went back home, and Yan walked the block back to his house to add the card he just received into his deck.
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An Hour Later, Yan was waiting at the Meeting Place for the Tournament. He hears someone yelling his name, and saw Astana running up to him.
"Wow Yan, you really are a loner aren't you? There are so many people here yet you're by your self all the time," said Astana.
"I just didn't want to make a lot of friends in a tournament," Yan replied.
"Why not?" asks Astana curiously.
"The more friends I make, then the more friends I'll have to go against in the Tournament."
Astana laughs a little. "Yan, you have such a weird way of seeing things."
"You two lovebirds are here flirting already?" asks someone as he walked up to Yan and Astana.
Yan and Astana both grew red in the face and saw that it was their friend Mike Ishtar. Mike was also around Yan's age and is also known as the best duelist in the school. He is of Japanese and Egyptian descent, and has a very outgoing and humorous nature. He has a Gate Guardian deck and like Astana, have lots of extremely rare cards.
Mike laughed as he saw his 2 friend's embarrassed faces. "You shouldn't take what I say so seriously. I was just kidding"
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"Attention all Duelists! I have the host for this tournament, and my name is Magnum Pegasus. I have chosen the tournament to be held in this city, because this city is well known for good duelists. My tournament will not only have participants from the local residents, but also anyone who have the wish to be crowned the King of Games," announced a 25 year old man. "Any questions?"
"How many duelists are participating?" asks a random participant. "Also what will the prize be besides the title King of Games? And if we lose in the Preliminaries, do we still lose our 2 rarest cards?"
"About 1000 duelists have registered. Because of the large number of participants we'll have 2 Preliminary Matches. This would reduce the number of duelists to 250." The crowd gasped at the big difference. "Also if you are the runner-up in my tournament, you will be known as Prince of Games, and receive 3 rare cards of your choice that my company has created. If you are the lucky person that became the King of Games, you shall receive 5 rare cards of your choice that our company has created. Also, you are given the right to challenge me to a duel. If you win, you shall receive 1 Million dollars." The crowd cheers at the amount of money. "And yes, you still lose your 2 rarest cards if you lose in the preliminaries, but not your counters. You can keep the counters as a souvenir of this tournament. Any more questions? NO? Then let the Matches Begin!"
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Yan, Astana, and Mike were all dueling different opponents at the same time. Mike was facing a person with a Beatdown Deck. Astana was facing against someone who also had a water deck. And lastly, Yan was facing someone with a Direct Damage deck.
Yan activates his Dueling Recorder and faced his opponent. "You may go first."
Yan's opponent, Nero, laughed and said, "Once I win, I'll be able to get your Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning (3000/2500) and your Sacred Temple of Light."
"How did you know I had those cards?"
"You idiot! It tells you in your Dueling Recorder."
Yan looks at his opponent's info and saw that the cards he'll win are Third Destruction and Demon's Law.
Nero draws and activates 2 Tremendous Fires. Then he summons out Jinzo #7 (500/400) along with a card facedown.
Yan draws and summons out La Jinn (1800/1000). He attacks Jinzo #7.
"I activate my trap card, Gravity Bind!" La Jinn was stopped by the Trap Card." Nero summons out another Jinzo #7. "Now both my monster attack!"
Yan took the pain given by the monsters and smiled as he saw what card he drew out. He activates Sacred Temple of Light. "Now your monster cannot attack my Life Points!" He ends his turn.
Nero growls in frustration, and activates his rarest card… Third Destruction. "I destroy all magic cards." Now both players magic cards are all sent to the graveyard except for the Sacred Temple of Light. "Why isn't your Temple destroyed?"
"My temple cannot be destroyed by Magic and Trap cards."
"I set one monster facedown and end my turn."
"I draw and end my turn."
Nero flips over his Magician of Faith (300/400). He got back Third Destruction. "I activate Third Destruction, to destroy all Monster cards!"
After all monster cards are destroyed, Yan laughed. "You are so stupid! You just destroyed your only chance of winning!"
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Do not know the effects of my Sacred Temple of Light? It has 1 other effect! It summons out a 3500 attack monster named Haven (3500/4500) any time I want on the third turn after I activated the card. Now that it's my turn, I special summon Haven!"
"So what? You still can't attack!"
"I activate my trap card on the field… Chaos Storm. It destroys all magic and trap cards on the field. And since my Temple can't be destroyed by magic and trap cards, only your Gravity Bind is destroyed. Now Haven Attack!"
Nero screams, as the 3500 damage is dealt.
(Yan: 5000 Life Points/Nero: 3500 Life Points)
Nero angrily sets down 3 Trap Cards and ends his turn. "Just incase you wanted to know my trap card could take out your Life Points too."
Yan draws and sets 2 cards face down and has Haven Attack. It was stopped by Wabaku.
Nero draws and ended his turn.
"It's all over; there is nothing you can do now! My facedown trap card Mime will copy my Chaos Storm card and destroys all our facedown cards. Now attack Nero!"
(Yan: 6000 Life Points/ Nero: 0 Life Points)
"No! I was one turn away from winning!"
"What do your mean?"
"My facedown card was also a Mime!" yelled Nero. I could have activated that card on my turn and destroy all our trap cards. Then when it's your turn and you can't draw, I would I have won!"
"Well, thanks for the strategy." Yan takes the 2 cards and fixed his deck while waiting for his friends to finish.
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A girl came up to Yan while he was waiting. "Your name's Yan right?"
"Yes, do I know you?" asked Yan.
"No, but I was watching you duel. You were the second fastest person to finish the First Preliminary Matches. The way you won your opponent was cool. You humiliated him pretty well."
"Um, thanks, I think. Anyway who was the first to win?"
"Me! My name's Katrina Bakura." The girl was about a year younger than him, and had he recognized him as someone from the high school about 4 blocks away from his. "I won in 3 minutes."
"3 Minutes! How did you do that?" asked Yan. He was surprised at her record.
Katrina activated her Dueling Recorder and showed him. Yan watched amazed as Katrina went first and activated Card of Safe Return. Next she used Graceful Charity and discarded Manticore of Darkness (2300/1500) and another card. Next she ended her turn and discarded her Manticore of Darkness from her hand to special summon her other Manticore of Darkness from the darkness. After drawing her card because of Card of Safe Return's effect. Next she discarded her Manticore of Darkness from the field into the graveyard to get back her other Manticore. After drawing a card, she repeated the cycle over and over again until she had all the pieces of Exodia the Forbidden One in her hand.
"I call that my 1 Turn Kill!" Katrina said proudly.
"You are good. So you have a Beast Warrior and Exodia Deck?"
Katrina shook her head. "No, just a Fiend and Exodia Deck. I just put in my Manticore's because their easy to search out and they could give me an instant win like you just saw." She saw 2 people waving at her direction. "Are those your friends?"
Yan looked and nodded. "I'll see you later. It's nice to meet you Katrina." Yan gets up to leave.
"Wait Yan! It was nice meeting you so I want to give you this card. I won it in that match before and I don't need it." She gives him the card Extended Reach.
"Thank you. You have a fiend deck so here. I know this card isn't as rare as the card you gave me but I hope you'll accept this gift. It's good for Fiends." He gave her the card Goblin King. (0/0)
She thanked him and told him to go to his friends and don't keep them waiting.
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Astana and Mike asked him who that girl he was talking to was. Yan explained who she was and her awesome 1 turn kill. Astana asked him how he did in his match.
"I would have lost if it wasn't for the card you gave me, Astana. Sacred Shrine of Light saved me. And I won 2 really good cards too. How did you 2 do?"
Astana laughed and said that her opponent's water deck was very badly made and lost once she used her Levia-Dragon Daedalus.
Mike too was laughing and said that the game was basically over for his opponent once he got out his Gate Guardian. That Beatdown Deck couldn't beat down a Gate Guardian (3750/3400).
"Now let's get ready for the 2nd Preliminary Matches," said Yan.
Cards Played/Mentioned:
A Legendary Ocean
Field Magic Card
All water monsters on the field and hand lowers it's level by 1. Increase all water monsters Attack and Defense by 200. This card is treated as Umi, as long as this card is face up.
Terrorking Salmon
2400/1000
Heaven's Barrier
0/2800
Oijia Board
Continuous Trap Card
At the end of each of your opponent's turns, place 1 Spirit Message card from your hand or your deck face-up to the field. If it is from your Deck, then shuffle your deck. If Spirit Message cards 'I', 'N', 'A', and 'L' are all on the field in their proper order, you are declared the winner. If any of the cards are destroyed or removed from the field while constructing the message, they are all sent to your Graveyard immediately.
Dust Tornado
Normal Trap Card
Destroy 1 magic and trap on your opponent's side of the field. Then you may set 1 magic or trap card from your hand to the field.
Butterfly Dagger Elma
Equip Magic Card
Equipped creature gains 300 Attack and Defense Points. If this card goes from the field to the graveyard put this card back into your hand.
Old Vindictive Magician
450/600
Effect: Destroy 1 monster on the field.
Vorse Raider
1900/1200
Pot of Greed
Normal Magic Card
Draw 2 cards
Premature Burial
Equip Magic Card
Pay 800 Life Points. Equip this card to one monster in your graveyard then special summon the monster onto the field in face up attack position. When this card is destroyed so is the monster.
Well Kept Tortoise
0/3700
Effect: This card's Defense Points is doubled when flipped face up.
Giga Gagagigo
2450/1500
'Gods and Demon's Treaty'
Continuous Trap Card
Effect: Roll a 6 sided die. Depending on the number rolled, either player can't take damage to their Life Points for the number of turns on the die.
The Forgiving Maiden
850/2000
Effect: Offer this face up card as a tribute to put 1 monster destroyed by battle back into your hand.
Gagagigo
1850/1000
Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning
3000/2500
Effect: This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster in your Graveyard from play. Once during each of your turns, you can select and activate 1 of the following effects:
Remove 1 monster on the field from play. If you activate this effect, this card cannot attack during this turn.
If this card destroyed your opponent's monster as a result of battle, it can attack once again in a row.
United We Stand
Equip Magic Card
Equipped monster gets 800 Attack and Defense Points for every monster on your side of the field.
Levia-Dragon Daedalus
2600/1500
Effect: Send Umi from your side of the field to the graveyard to destroy all cards on the field except for this one.
Trap Hole
Normal Trap Card
When your opponent summons a monster with 1000 or more Attack Points destroy that monster, excluding Special Summons.
Monster Reborn
Normal Magic Card
Select 1 Monster Card from either your opponent's or your own graveyard and place it on the field under your control in Attack or Defense Position (Face-up). This is considered a special summon.
Chaos Storm
Normal Trap Card
Destroy all magic and trap cards on the field.
'Water Destruction'
Field Magic Card
Effect: All monsters that are not Water attributes will be destroyed on the second turn that the monster is summoned.
Ditto
0/0
Effect: Copy 1 card that has been used.
Sacred Temple of Light
Continuous Magic Card
This card cannot be destroyed by magic and trap cards. You do not take direct damage as long as thing card remains face up on the field. After 3 turns you may Special Summon 'Haven'
Third Destruction
Normal Magic Card
Choose Monster, Magic, or Trap. Destroy all cards in both player's deck, field, and hand of the selected category.
Demon's Law
Continuous Magic Card
Choose Monster, Magic, or Trap. Cards that are of that category can no longer be played as long as this card is on the field. If Magic is chosen all magic cards excluding this card is prohibited.
Tremendous Fire
Normal Magic Card
You opponent takes 1000 damage while you take 500.
Jinzo #7
500/400
Effect: This monster may attack your opponents directly.
La Jinn
1800/1000
Gravity Bind
Continuous Trap Card
All monsters whose level is 4 or higher can not attack.
Magician of Faith
300/400
Effect:
Flip: Send 1 magic card from your graveyard back to your hand.
Haven
3500/4500
Effects:
1st Effect-'Haven' can only be special summoned out through 'Sacred Temple of Light'.
2nd Effect-'Haven' can not be destroyed by battle. Damage Calculations still occur. The Damage taken is doubled.
3rd Effect-'Haven' can not be destroyed by magic and trap cards as long as 'Sacred Temple of Light is on the field.
4th Effect-Increase your Life points by 500 during every Standby Phase.
5th Effect-This card can attack all your opponents' monsters for 500 Life Points x the number of monsters.
6th Effect-You may summon monsters from your graveyard as if they were from your hand for 1000 Life Points for every monster. Only 1 monster can be summoned during your turn. This includes the hand.
Wabaku
Normal Trap Card
All damage done by your opponent's monsters is reduced to 0.
Mime
Normal Trap Card
Copy one card that has been used.
Card of Safe Return
Continuous Magic Card
When a monster is special summoned onto the field, draw a card.
Graceful Charity
Normal Magic Card
Draw 3 cards then discard 2 cards.
Manticore of Darkness
2300/1000
Effect: During the End Phase of the turn this card is sent to the Graveyard, send 1 Beast, Beast-Warrior or Winged Beast-Type Monster Card from your hand or your side of the field to the Graveyard to Special Summon this card from the Graveyard.
Exodia the Forbidden One
1000/1000
Effect: An automatic victory can be declared by the person who's hand contains this card together with the Left Leg of the Forbidden One, the Left Arm of the Forbidden One, the Right Leg of the Forbidden One, and the Right Arm of the Forbidden One.
Extended Reach
Continuous Magic Card
The owner of this card may play magic and trap cards in their monster zones or monster cards in their magic and trap card zones.
Goblin King
0/0
Effect: If there is another Fiend type on the field, this card cannot be attacked. This card gains 1000 attack points for every Fiend monster on the field.
Gate Guardian
3750/3400
Effect: This card can only be special summoned out by combining Kazejin, Suijin, and Sanga of Thunder. This card can change all battle damage inflicted to it to 0. This effect can only be activated once per turn.
DSlifer: the tournament is finally beginning. Also note that I'm not sure if I got the Gate Guardian effect right from the anime version. Tell me if I'm wrong. Also yes, Mike is the descendent of Malik and Katrina is the descendent of Bakura. Also don't think I'm just favoring Yan, all the other duelists has extremely rare and powerful cards. The next chapter will feature a special character, Matthew from Mystic Avenger's Champion Duelists story.