"To
the Great and all powerful Gods we sing our praise, for they are good
and they are wise. They guide and protect us in our darkest hours,
for when our time comes, it is the Gods who judge us..."
-After
Noon Prayer
On the other
side of Domino city three boys wearing the same dark blue school
uniform walked down a street in the dark, they had just come out of
an arcade.
The shortest of the three laughed as he listened to
his friends talk about the new video game they had just finished
playing. They had spent too much money on it and were now moaning
about being broke.
The three were Joey Wheeler, Tristan
Taylor, and Yugi motou.
All three of
them went to the same school, and were the best of friends, which is
why Tristan and Joey had dragged Yugi to the arcade with them.
Luckily they had run out of money, it was growing late, forcing the
three to retreat home for the night.
"I can't believe I came
that close to beating the last boss! Stupid machine!"
"What are
you talking about, Joey? You were having your butt royally kicked."
Tristan stated as Joey glared at him,
"I'll show you who's
having who's butt kicked!" Joey shouted loudly making a lung at
Tristan. The two fell to the ground in a heap.
"Hey Yug, what's with the face?" Joey said drawing Tristan's attention to Yugi, who turns smiling widely at them,
"Oh, I'm just thinking of the tournament. I can't wait! I think it sounds exciting."
"Yea. It's a good thing you and Joey entered. Today was the last day to it."
"I'm gonna
show the whole world who is number one!" Joey proclaimed shoving a
fist into the air, "No offence Yug, but I'm going to beat you in
the finals this time!""Come off it, Joey..." Tristan
rolled his eyes as Yugi only smiled at his friends.
"No,
Tristan. I'm going to beat everyone. Including that jerk Kaiba."
"What makes
you think Kaiba's even going to enter this tournament?"
"Tristan.
It's Kaiba we're talk'n about here." Joey said as if it was the
most obvious thing in the world. Tristan sighed shoving Joey away
from him.
"Hey!" Joey shouted looking hurt before breaking
in a fit of insane laugher, getting strange looks from the
passers-by.
"Er...Joey, could you keep it down?" Tristan
mumbled grinning in embarrassment to some old couple who looked
appalled by the sight of Joey's actions. Yugi just continued to
watch two of his best friends as Tristan tried to get Joey to calm
down, with little to no progress.
"I can't wait the one
extra day until the tournament starts! I want to duel now!"
"Don't
be too hasty, that's how you loose."
"Nothing like a
little faith in your friends, huh, Tristan?"
Tristan gave
out a frustrated sigh turning away from Joey who had returned to
declaring that he would beat out Kaiba and duel Yugi in the finals.
Yugi grinned up and watched his friend parade around in a
circle.
"Joey, all you need is a pink dress and you could
wear that to the tournament."
"Waddya
mean!?" Joey said turning serious and glaring at a now smirking
Tristan
"I mean your acting like a fairy."
"Fairy!?
I'll show you who's the fairy!" he shouted swinging to punch
Tristan, but Tristan, having seen it coming, managed to dodge the hit
causing Joey to loose his balance and fall out onto the street and
land in a large dirty puddle of water. He sat there looking up at
Tristan and Yugi, who were both laughing their heads off.
"That's
what the great duellist gets!" Tristan said between
laughs.
Suddenly finding this very un-amusing Joey leapt to
his feet, splashing the other two with water and glaring daggers at
them both.
"It's not funny! this' dry clean only!"
"That's
why it's so funny!" Yugi snickered, getting a dark look from
Joey.
"That's it! Your both gonna get it now!"
"Run for
it!" Tristan yelled as He and Yugi dashed off with Joey chasing
after them looking like some sort of Frankenstein monster. Both Yugi
and Tristan were laughing the whole time they ran from Joey, who was
yelling at them for being unsupportive friends and that they should
stop running so he could show them what he thought of them at the
moment.
Across the street stood a woman with long blonde hair.
She shook her head as she watched the three run out of sight, and
gave a sigh pulling her arms around herself, looking up at the still
darkening night sky. "Another tournament, where I get to kick some
kids butt..." turning away from the street she walked into a small
cafe, it had gotten cold very fast, which was odd, especially after
the heat wave they had been having.