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Demon Duelist Legacy Chapter 8: Preparations (Part 1)
Daniel banged his head against the front door of his house again. "Somebody...open...the...door!" He couldn't believe that he had forgotten his house key. ("Please let Rebecca be here.")
After what seemed like hours later, the door finally opened and his sister smiled cheerfully to him from inside the entryway of the house. "Hey there big brother, how was the tournament? Did you win?"
Daniel considered yelling at her as a way to relieve the stress of losing, but one look into her cheerful blue eyes and he sighed dejectedly. ("It would be like yelling a dog for greeting me at the door.") He gently shoved past her and trudged into the house, forcing himself to make the walk up the stairs. When he got to his room he slammed the door, dropped his backpack and duel disk on the ground, and collapsed in his bed.
Rebecca, who was still downstairs in the entry, blinked in confusion. "So you didn't win?" She yelled up after him.
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Daniel was standing on a dock. The sea crashed around him and he was looking out at the ocean. He was wearing a strange black and silver bodysuit that glimmered in the light of the slowly rising sun off in the distance.
"You're here," a familiar female voice said from behind him.
He spun around to find himself face to face with a tall and beautiful brown haired woman. She was wearing a red sweater and a pair of grey sweat pants. Even through the loose clothes she was wearing Daniel could tell that she was an athlete. She walked up to him slowly and she smiled.
("What's going on?") Daniel wanted to scratch the back of his head, but he wasn't in control of his body at the moment. "Of course I am. I could never turn down a request from my mate," Daniel's body said.
Truth be told that when it came to love Daniel was not just clueless, but he was also deathly afraid of women. ("So why did I just call a complete stranger my mate!?") He tried will all of his might to force himself to run from this terrifying (for him) situation, but his body wouldn't respond to his commands.
The woman smiled and drew Daniel's body into a tight hug, nearly crushing the breath out of him. "I'm so glad."
He could feel her figure press against his body and whoever was in control of his body seemed unaffected by the close contact with the woman, though if Daniel had been in control of his body he would have thought now would be a nice time to pass out.
She lifted her head up a little and brought him into a deep kiss. Daniel felt like his head was going to explode. He couldn't control his body but he could feel the kiss and that was enough for his brain to overload.
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("I'd advise you to wake up. Your sister is about to spill coffee all over you.")
Daniel's eyes snapped open just in time to see his sister upend the contents of a scalding hot cup of coffee over his face. He leapt up from his bed and screamed at the sudden burning heat on his skin. "What was that for!?"
Rebecca looked at him innocently. "You were tossing and turning so much it looked like you were having a nightmare. Then your cheeks turned bright red and your nose started to bleed. I thought that maybe you were having some kind of heart attack. I needed to wake you up."
Daniel screamed, "YOU COULD HAVE WOKEN ME UP SOME OTHER WAY BESIDES BURNING ME!!!"
She shrugged, her blond streaked brown hair bouncing slightly. "I was just trying to help you bro."
Daniel took a deep breath and reminded him that he was the responsible adult in the house while his father was gone on his business trip. He coughed slightly and tried to gather himself up enough to look dignified, though the fact he was now tinted brown from the coffee made him look too funny to take seriously. "Very well sister. I'll forgive you this time. Next time though think before you act." He walked out of the room and headed for the shower, muttering curses to the gods for giving him a sister who could physically injure him and get away with it.
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As he rubbed some shampoo into his hair, Daniel's thoughts wandered back into what had happened during his dream. It had seemed so real. Yet he knew for a fact that if he had been in control of his body that woman wouldn't have had a chance to kiss him. He'd be out cold by just from the hug she had given him. ("So that means someone else was in control of my body, but whom though?")
("Do you always overanalyze everything?")
Eyes closed, Daniel sighed as he felt the hot water wash his hair clean of the coffee that had dried it into knotted clumps. "I was wondering when you would return," he said out loud to the voice in his head that had appeared during the tournament yesterday.
("Did you think I'd disappear?")
Daniel's eyes snapped open. "You just responded to me. You mean you could hear me this whole time yesterday?"
("Of course I could.")
Daniel decided that if he was going to be crazy, he may as well get to know the voice in his head. "Then why didn't you ever answer me before when I addressed you?"
("I didn't wish to foolish boy. Are you so spoiled as to think that I have to answer when you speak to me?")
Growling quietly, Daniel wished he had the power to throttle the snide voice at the moment. "So you make me think that I am losing my mind, and then when you finally start talking to me you insult me by calling me spoiled?"
("Am I lying?")
Daniel growled much louder now, very much wishing the owner of the voice was right in front of him. ".........."
("Like I thought. You have no control over your temper.")
Daniel slammed his fist into the tiled wall, wincing in pain as his knuckles started to throb. "Stop judging me! Go away!"
("Very well then you big baby. Farewell.")
The voice faded and left Daniel standing the shower with a throbbing hand and a lot of questions on his mind now.
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"Are you sure you are okay Daniel? I heard you yelling at someone in the shower." Rebecca poked her eggs with her fork absent-mindedly. Ever since her brother had woken up in the morning he had seemed upset about something.
"I told that I was just talking to myself. I've got a lot of things on my mind right now and I needed to vent." He took a sip of his glass of milk and smiled sadly. "I'll handle my own problems Rebecca. You don't need to worry about me."
Rebecca pouted and stood up out of her chair, tugging his ear sharply. "Oh no you don't! You're not going to sulk today. Remember that you promised you would take me to the mall?"
Daniel slipped out of her tug and rubbed his ear gingerly. "Fine. Go get ready and we'll go." He went up to his room and snatched up his duel disk from the pile of clothes he had dropped it in. Stuffing the device into his backpack, he threw it on and went down in the entryway to wait for her.
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Daniel stumbled, barely managing to stop himself from dropping the newest bag of clothing his sister had given him to hold. So far he now had bags draped all over his body, and from the way his sister kept going into new stores, he knew he would be carrying a lot more bags soon. ("Why did I even bother to come? I'm just her pack mule today.")
"Come on Daniel hurry up!" Rebecca had already gone into a new store and he swore he could see smoke coming off of her credit card.
Sighing, Daniel collapsed in a heap on a bench and shrugged off all of the bags. ("I'm done. I need a nap.") He closed his eyes and tried to get some much-needed rest.
His sister's scream of anger brought him back to consciousness. Standing and shouldering all of the bags again, he ran a little ways down the mall and then charged into the store he had heard the scream from. It was a game shop.
Daniel ran in to see his sister glaring at a tall man in a white coat who was holding a pack of cards in his hand out of her reach.
"For the last time kid, this is my pack of cards not yours." He narrowed his blue eyes at Rebecca and stepped back when she took a swing at his head with her fist.
Daniel sighed and tossed all of the bags off to the side. "Rebecca why are you bothering random people in the shops?" Something about the man she was bothering disturbed Daniel though. He had seen this man from somewhere, but he wasn't sure where.
Rebecca screeched, "That's the last pack from the Angel's Fury set this store has! I was looking at it and this jerk just grabbed it out of my hands. I was gonna buy it too!"
The man smiled coldly and brushed his brown bangs back. "I'll make you a deal little girl. We'll have a duel and the winner of it gets the rights to the pack?"
Rebecca nodded and walked over to Daniel. "Give me your duel disk."
Daniel rolled his eyes and unzipped his backpack. He took out his disk, removed his deck from it and then handed it to her. "Don't break it. I'm going to need it in a couple of weeks."
She ignored her brother's comment and pulled her deck out of her pocket, inserting it into the disk and sliding the device onto her arm. It clicked into place and she nodded at the man. "Let's duel."
The man shook his head condescendingly at her and his duel disk clicked into place. "You're going to regret this little girl. Let's take our game outside." She nodded and the two of them marched outside the store and took their position from each other in front of the store.
Daniel meanwhile scratched at his chin and observed the man his sister was about to duel. ("Where have I seen you before?")
Rebecca drew her five cards and then her sixth. "Ladies first. I summon Warrior of Zera (1600/1600) in attack mode." A green-helmeted man appeared on her field and readied his sword. "I'll set two cards face-down on my field and end my turn."
The man casually drew his five cards and then his sixth. "First I'll play Heavy Storm to blow all magic and traps off the field." A strong wind hit the field and Rebecca's face-down cards were destroyed. "Now I'll summon Kaiser Seahorse (1700/1650) in attack mode." A blue armored monster with a staff appeared on the man's field. "Now Kaiser Seahorse attack her Warrior of Zera." The Kaiser flew across the field and cut Rebecca's monster down instantly.
Rebecca- 7900
Man- 8000
The man chuckled mirthlessly at the angry expression on Rebecca's face. "Don't take it too hard. I set two cards face-down and I end my turn."
Rebecca drew and smiled slightly. "I'll avenge my lost monster by playing Monster Reborn to revive it from the graveyard. Then I will sacrifice Warrior of Zera to summon the Agent of Judgment, Saturn! (2400/0)" A beautiful purple-skinned angel appeared on the field and snapped her wings out to her sides. She bowed to Rebecca, and then turned to stare down the man. He didn't look impressed.
"That's it? How sad. I'll save you the trouble of getting your hopes up by triggering my Ring of Destruction trap card right now. That will destroy your monster and drain its attack points from both of our life-points." His cold smile got even colder. "Well it would except for the fact that I trigger my other face-down card Barrel behind the Door, which deals effect damage that I would take to you this turn."
A metal ring with grenades on it appeared on the field around Saturn's neck and exploded. Then as the smoke cleared an ancient golden gun appeared and fired a blast at Rebecca. Both blasts had enough force behind them to send her to her knees.
Rebecca- 3100
Man- 8000
Rebecca slowly came to her feet. "End...turn."
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Daniel growled from his spot at the front of the gathered crowd. He knew that the duel disks were meant to make people feel pain, but the way his sister was stumbling now made him frown. ("This guy must have the pain infliction system of his duel disk turned up. But how could he do that?")
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The man drew and chuckled. "Do us all a favor and surrender. You're a waste of my time girl." He didn't wait for her response. "I use the special ability of my Kaiser Seahorse to treat it as two tributes when sacrificed for a light attribute monster. So now I shall summon forth my ultimate beast...."
Daniel's blood ran cold. He just realized who this guy was. "Rebecca surrender the duel right now!"
Rebecca ignored him, watching her opponent intently.
The man slapped his new monster down on his disk. "I summon forth the Blue eyes White Dragon!" (3000/2500) An enormous white scaled dragon appeared and roared at Rebecca, its teeth inches from her face. The sheer force of its scream has her covering her ears in pain.
Daniel was doing the same thing as Rebecca was, but he was trying to figure out why someone as powerful and important as Seto Kaiba was here in the first place. ("Why would he come all the way from Japan to America? It couldn't just be to get a pack of cards.")
Rebecca stumbled back as the Blue eyes White Dragon roared at her again. Kaiba waved at her gently. "Farewell annoyance. Blue-eyes White Dragon attack with Burst Stream!"
The Dragon built up a huge blast of energy in its jaws and unleashed it. It engulfed Rebecca and shook the entire mall, the windows of every building shattering instantly and spraying glass everywhere.
Rebecca- 100
Kaiba- 8000
As the smoke from the Dragon's Burst Stream attack cleared it showed that Rebecca had been knocked unconscious from the sheer force of the blast.
Kaiba chuckled. "I guess since she can't duel I win, correct?" He had directed the question at Daniel, mostly because he knew that the red-haired boy and this annoyance of a girl were related somehow.
Daniel didn't hear him. He was too busy thinking of ways to kill Kaiba slowly and painfully for hurting his sister. "You....you...." A cold rage built up within him, and he walked over to Rebecca's prone form. Picking her up and laying her down off to the side of the playing field, he took the disk off of her arm. Sliding it on, he walked over slowly and stood where she had been standing before. He reached down and picked up her scattered hand of cards, eyes unblinking.
"I will finish the duel for her Seto Kaiba." Daniel said each word with venom, his stance strangely calm considering his sister could have been killed from the force of that direct attack. His brown eyes stared into Kaiba's own blue ones, and he could see the cold mind of the demon that was Seto Kaiba at work. Those eyes showed that Kaiba was as ruthless as his dragon when it came to getting what he wanted. It didn't matter who was in his way. ("Normally I wouldn't have a problem with it, but my sister was one of the people you ran over. Now I have to make you pay.")
Kaiba shrugged casually. "As you wish. If you really want to feel pain then who am I to stop you? By the way, I end my turn."
Daniel- 100
Kaiba- 8000
Daniel drew from his sister's deck and looked at the four cards he was holding. "I set one monster in face-down defense mode and two cards face-down on the field, end turn."
Kaiba drew lazily and slid a card into his disk. "I summon Vorse Raider (1900/1200) in attack mode." A horrible looking monster wielding a cruel sword appeared and roared, licking his fangs at Daniel.
Daniel licked his lips right back at it. "I'm not going to fall for any scare tactics Kaiba."
Kaiba narrowed his eyes, going from relaxed to focused instantly. "Then let me show you that I have been holding back! I trigger the magic card Nobleman of Crossout to remove your face-down monster from the game." A man in silver armor appeared over Daniel's monster and in one slash Daniel had no monsters defending him.
Daniel narrowed his eyes, almost mirroring Kaiba. "Don't take me lightly. I'm not as easy to beat as you think."
Kaiba snorted and pointed at Daniel. "We shall see. Blue-eyes White Dragon attack with your Burst Stream!" The enormous dragon roared again and powered up its blast. "Now die you insolent fool!" The dragon released its attack in one lump of energy, the explosion even bigger than before. This time the very structure around the dueling area was cracked and damaged because of the blast.
To be continued...
Next Chapter: Preparation (Part 2)
Author's notes: Yes I know that I used the Blue-eyes White Dragon's Japanese attack name, but I dislike White Lightning. Burst Stream sounds cooler. Once again, if you got a character in mind who is a duelist, let me know about them so I can put them in the Shadow Tournament.