Strong Enough
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Kari and Kura finally arrive at the duelist kingdom, what surprises will await them?
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Note: I'm only gonna do short summaries of HiKari's duels, and tell you the results of the rest.
~HiKari~
The boat suddenly came to a stop, and as it did, I ran out to the deck of the ship. I didn't want to have to say goodbye to Mai. If I did, I don't think I could stand staying with Yugi and his friends. I met them all on the deck, and saw that all the duelists had to go past armored guards as they were exiting the ship. Yes! I thought to myself, Now those idiot friends who snuck on will get what they paid for. As we walked past the guards, one of them stopped Tristan. I was happy that the idiot was going to get caught, but the guard just told Tristan to lighten up. That stupid guard! How could he NOT see that Tristan and Tea weren't real duelists?
I sighed and looked at the ground.
Yugi came up to me and said, "I know you miss Kura, but let's have a great time while we're here and forget about her for just a little bit."
"Yeah, you and Kura seem a bit too… close." Tristan added, "You need to get away for awhile, do stuff on your own."
"Yeah," Joey said, "It seems like your whole life's centered on her, kinda like she's controllin' ya. Hang with some real friends like us."
Then Tea bounced up, "Yeah, so let's make a super-secret-ultra-cool-friendship-pact! Everybody, put your hands together, and I'll mark us with a special sign!"
Unfortunately, there's no way to make a friendship sign on five people's hands, so I pulled mine out.
They made their "special sign" then headed up to Pegasus's castle. As I walked up, lagging behind them, I was thinking about what they said about Makura. Were they right? Did she just control me? Were we too close? Was that the reason I could never make any friends? A thousand questions swarmed in my head like a bunch of angry bees, and they made so much buzzing I couldn't tell the truth from the lies.
I looked up and saw that we were at the entrance to the castle. I looked up at the balcony where Pegasus was standing. He was standing there, telling everyone about the rules and such. Then, at the end he added, "And there is one more thing at stake. The life of the princess of the duelist kingdom."
I looked away when he said this. That idiot. Not all duelists were men, and he shouldn't be risking a person's life just for a stupid duel.
"Whoever can beat me, the king of the duelist kingdom will save the beautiful princess and become the king of duelists, and get my money as well."
Then suddenly I heard a voice, a voice I knew all too well. "HiKari!" Yelled the voice of my sister.
I looked up to see that the "princess" Pegasus had mentioned earlier had jumped from the balcony, but she was attached to something inside the castle by a chain attached to her wrist.
No one should be treated like that I thought to myself as I ran to help the girl. As I got closer and closer, the more familiar the face got, but just before I could distinguish who it was, she was lifted back up into the castle and taken away.
"Well," Pegasus said, frowning, "I beg your pardon for that little disruption, but let the games begin!"
Fireworks shot into the air, but I was looking around. Now that the distraction of the girl jumping was gone, I could search for Kura. I knew the voice I heard was hers, but as I followed Yugi and his friends away, I could tell she was nowhere in sight. Had I just imagined it?
Suddenly, Yugi walked up and asked me, "HiKari, did you hear your sister, back there?"
Joey sighed, "That'd be like her, following you to an unknown island to a duel that she wasn't even invited to, just to keep an eye on you. I mean, Makura kinda acts like a stalker sometimes."
That was it. I couldn't take him saying things like that about Makura anymore. "She's not a stalker, and she doesn't control me! We're just sisters and friends, and I know she'd never do anything to hurt me! She's just loyal, she's loyal, and she's a heck of a better friend then you are, Joseph Killigan Wheeler!"
Everyone but Joey started to laugh.
"It's not funny!" I shouted.
"No," Yugi explained through tears of laughter, "It's not that, it's… his name. Killigan"
I started to laugh too. I could just imagine Joey wearing a kilt and playing bagpipes.
"Stop laughin' " Joey said.
"I'll only stop laughing if you put on a kilt and do a bagpipe dance." I said as I laughed.
"Fine!" He yelled as he walked into the nearby forest, then came out minutes later dressed in a kilt and playing a bagpipe.
Everyone suddenly went quiet.
"Joey, I was joking." I said, "I didn't really think that you'd do it."
"Oh," Joey said blushing, then running into the woods and coming out again dressed in his normal clothes and no longer wearing the bagpipe.
Just as Joey came out, three different duelists came up to us.
The one who threw Exodia overboard (His name was Weevil) challenged Yugi in the forest area, Mai challenged Joey (and whispered to me as she was walking by that she'd beat him for me) and a kid named Ryuki challenged me.
He had the advantage in the first part of the match, he managed to send out a summoned skull and a Kuriboh in his fourth turn, and I only had one defense monster, which he killed. I had a Black Luster Soldier and Black luster Ritual card in my hand, but I only had a Gemini elf card, which only had four star points. I had to draw a monster that had at least four star points this turn, or I'd lose for sure. I put my whole mind to "trusting the heart of the cards" and drew. I looked and saw, to my dismay, that it was a magic card. I sighed. Stupid heart of the cards. I never believed in… then I looked again. It was the change of heart. I smiled Makura really was looking out for me, even now. I used Change of heart to get Summoned skull, then Summoned my own Black Luster Soldier to attack Kuriboh, winning the match.
Star chips:
Winners # duels won
HiKari: 4 - 1
Yugi: 3 - 1
Mai: 5 - 2
Losers Status:
Joey - Gone
Weevil - Gone
Ryuki - Gone
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~Makura~
As soon as I got there I was pushed out of the jet and into a room and told to put on the dress that was hanging in the room or I'd never see HiKari again. I quickly did, and then was ushered into a room where they put on makeup and bracelets and all sorts of other things. Then they ran me out to the balcony where Pegasus was making his speech, but then put one more thing around my wrist. I assumed at the time that it was just another bracelet, but I should have known by the weight that it was really a chain. When Pegasus said "the life of the princess of the duelist kingdom" I was pushed out onto the balcony. I stared out into the crowd and immediately spotted HiKari. I couldn't stand to be away from her for another second.
"HiKari" I yelled before jumping down to go see her. The next thing I knew, I was dangling from the balcony by the chain attached to my wrist. It felt like my hand would be ripped off and I'd fall to the ground. Then I saw HiKari running towards me! I stretched out my hand to her. If I could just touch her, be sure she was okay for just one second, then it would be fine. I could go through anything so long as I got to see her up close, to tell her I was okay. She got closer and closer, and got almost close enough to reach out and touch my hand, but just she stretched out her hand to reach mine, I was pulled up and into the castle again. One of the guards came up to me and took off the chain and led me away to a room equipped with anything I'd ever need. I turned and stared at the guard. "I'm not a princess, I'm a prisoner!" I said angrily, "Take me someplace a prisoner would belong!" He obliged, but not before I went in and got my picture of HiKari and my blanket. Then he took me to different places all through the castle, but even the worst of rooms was too classy for a prisoner. "Don't you have a dungeon?" I asked furiously, " This is a castle, isn't it?"
"We do have a tower for the prisoner but…" He began.
"Take me there!" I demanded. "Take me there or I'll go beat the shit out of Pegasus and take over this place myself."
"Yes, of course," He said before leading me up a long winding staircase to a small room that was freezing because of a large window with no shutters that seemed to be the main feature of the room.
"Does this please you, miss?" the guard asked
"Yes," I said before he shut the door and sat down right outside to guard it. "And It's Makura, Not miss!" I yelled as I wrapped the blanket around me to sheild out the surrounding cold.
Suddenly I noticed something moving. Mokuba bounded out of nowhere and hugged me, "HiKari! I figured out a way to get us out of here!"
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What is Mokuba talking about?
When will HiKari realize that Makura is really there in the Duelist Kingdom?
All this awnsered in the next chapter ^-^
HiKari, You're the best sister anyone could ever ask for
Love ya!
-Kura