~Three days before the tournament on a Wednesday morning, Joey stormed into
the game store and showed Yugi a letter~
"YUGE! You'll never guess what!!!" Joey shouted excitedly. "I got an invitation to the tourney!"
"Good job Joey," Yugi said but now he felt unsure since his best friend was now in danger what with Salazar's menacing threats.
"Uhh, Yuge?" Joey said. "Somethin' wrong?"
"I'll tell you later when we're on the boat," Yugi told him.
"Okay, but now that I got invited on such short notice, I only have three days to prepare my deck," Joey told Yugi. "Which is why I brought my money with me however, it isn't fifteen bucks to buy that nice Luster Dragon but I can buy four boosters I'll buy a different series of each, I gotta get somethin' good from one."
"Okay then," appeared Grandpa behind the counter, giving Joey and Yugi a startle. "So Joey which series would you like?"
"Uhh... that one, that one, that one and... that one," said Joey pointing to different series of cards.
He handed his money over to Grandpa and he gave him the four different booster packs.
Joey quickly ripped them open and looked for the rare cards in them.
"Oh yeah! This is great!" Joey showed his new card, the rare magic card called 'Question.'
"Whoa, that's a great card Joey," Yugi told him.
"That ain't all, here are the other great cards I got," Joey showed him United We Stand, Sixth Sense and Blast with Chain.
"Wow Joey, with those cards, you're gonna give those duelists a run for their cards." Yugi said. "I'm going to need to get some booster packs to compete with that."
"Heh thanks Yuge," Joey said and took his other new cards and walked out the door. "Sorry gotta run, need to put my deck together, I'll see you later Yugi."
"Bye, Joey!" Yugi waved and with that, Yugi bought some booster packs and began to rebuild his deck.
On the day before the tournament everyone was still in preparation for the big tournament tomorrow.
~Yugi's house, 12:00 AM~
Yugi was in his bedroom putting the finishing touches on his deck and off to the side, he had yet to put his Egyptian god card in.
"...and then I think I'll replace Horn Imp for... Neo the Magic Swordsman and Gaia the Fierce Knight for its effect counterpart, Swift Gaia, another Thousand Knives wouldn't hurt either, to add to my deck I'll put in Saint Dragon God of Osiris."
Yugi looked at his god card and slipped it in the middle of his deck and shuffled it when he drew his first five cards, one of them was Osiris, he shuffled again and there it was again. It was as if the card wanted to be played...
~Joey's apartment, 12:15 AM~
"Heh heh," laughed Joey as he was practicing looking at his hand and playing cards. "I'll first play Panther Warrior then I'll play Scapegoat and skyrocket his power with United We Stand! Take that Kaiba, 6000 attack just to pay for one lost scapegoat! What's that, gonna use Raigeki? Well I'll give up Breaker the Magical Warrior's magic counter to stop your little thunderstorm! HA-HA-HA!"
Joey continued practicing different combos with his old and new cards until he put himself to sleep, three minutes later.
~ Kaiba Corp, 1:30 AM, Kaiba was in a metallic room and he had his duel disc system on and was facing a dueling robot that looked a lot like Salazar and the duel began and Kaiba had placed his old deck with the Salazar robot, even with the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in it~
The Salazar robot first placed one card facedown in defense mode ending its turn and played two magic or trap cards facedown.
Kaiba played Foolish Burial and placed Lord of D. from his deck and into his graveyard, the shuffled his deck. Then he played Monster Reborn reviving his Lord of D. then played the flute of Summoning Dragon special summoning two Twin-Headed Behemoths then sacrificing them all to bring out The God of Obelisk and the two Twin-Headed Behemoths were brought back to the field in a weaker state, ending his turn.
The Salazar robot flipped his face down card The Flute of Summoning Dragon, since the card could still work for the opposing player and special summoned Two Blue-Eyes White Dragons, but placed them in defense mode since they couldn't attack because they were special summoned.
Kaiba sacrificed both the behemoths to use Obelisk's destructive ability and destroyed the facedown card and the Salazar robot had exploded from the force and blew its head clear off its shoulders which made Kaiba laughed.
"I'm ready!" he shouted triumphantly as he walked up and stomped on the robot head crushing it. After his victory he turned in knowing that the other two god cards would be there at the tournament and it would only be a matter of time until he owned them.
~Duelist Kingdom, 5:00 AM~
"Hmm," Salazar said to himself while contemplating. "I gave Yugi Osiris and Obelisk to Seto Kaiba, but who to give The Winged Dragon of Ra?"
He pressed a button on his desk which turned on a numerous amount of TVs, showing were many different people, two of which were Michael Laskow and Ryan Stone, the top two duelists in the world.
"Those two... but I wonder," said Salazar. "Will they be willing to duel? Or maybe I could one them to use it. Well that'd be the fun part, them figuring it all out. Yes, I know who to give it to now."
Salazar pressed a button and two suits came in wearing dark glasses came in. "Get these letters delivered to the addresses on this piece of paper," he handed one of them the paper and gave the other suit the letters. "Make sure you give it to that person and by the way, you have 24 hours to get it to him."
The two suits didn't waste any time, they ran out of the room and quickly sealed the card safely and traveled by helicopter and car and it was delivered to the puzzled duelist and the two men left as strangely as they came.
"I might as well hold on to this card," he said to himself, looking at Ra. "But I might need to use my translator on how to use it."
The day of the tournament came and Yugi awoke at 5:00 AM and got dressed in his normal attire, grabbed his deck and placed the Millennium Puzzle around his neck and walked out the door and he was greeted by Joey who was dressed in a white T-Shirt, blue jeans and a green jacket, exactly like the clothes when he entered Duelist Kingdom. They both walked down the street and took a subway train towards Tokyo Docks where the ships were docked at which took several hours to get to and since they were early, they spent some time looking at the sites but at 7:00 PM they set for the docks and were there in a half hour. Then they were at the docks seeing a huge crowd of duelists.
"Well, Yugi," Joey told his best friend as they saw the five large ships at the docks. "You ready?"
"Yeah..." Yugi told him but his mind was elsewhere.
"Hey Yuge, what's wrong?" Joey asked him. "You've been acting really weird lately, what's up?"
"Well, you see..." Yugi explained to him about Salazar, Shadi, and about how Salazar got a hold of the Egyptian God Cards.
"What? He's got that damn Millennium Rod!?" shouted Joey just to get his mouth covered by Yugi.
"Joey, quiet," Yugi told him. "We don't know who could be listening to us."
"Okay, but I'll be damned if he takes control of me, I'm nobody's slave." Joey said quietly.
"Alright, then just watch out for anything suspicious Joey," Yugi said.
And with that, the two of them walked down to the docks on the cold misty morning...
"YUGE! You'll never guess what!!!" Joey shouted excitedly. "I got an invitation to the tourney!"
"Good job Joey," Yugi said but now he felt unsure since his best friend was now in danger what with Salazar's menacing threats.
"Uhh, Yuge?" Joey said. "Somethin' wrong?"
"I'll tell you later when we're on the boat," Yugi told him.
"Okay, but now that I got invited on such short notice, I only have three days to prepare my deck," Joey told Yugi. "Which is why I brought my money with me however, it isn't fifteen bucks to buy that nice Luster Dragon but I can buy four boosters I'll buy a different series of each, I gotta get somethin' good from one."
"Okay then," appeared Grandpa behind the counter, giving Joey and Yugi a startle. "So Joey which series would you like?"
"Uhh... that one, that one, that one and... that one," said Joey pointing to different series of cards.
He handed his money over to Grandpa and he gave him the four different booster packs.
Joey quickly ripped them open and looked for the rare cards in them.
"Oh yeah! This is great!" Joey showed his new card, the rare magic card called 'Question.'
"Whoa, that's a great card Joey," Yugi told him.
"That ain't all, here are the other great cards I got," Joey showed him United We Stand, Sixth Sense and Blast with Chain.
"Wow Joey, with those cards, you're gonna give those duelists a run for their cards." Yugi said. "I'm going to need to get some booster packs to compete with that."
"Heh thanks Yuge," Joey said and took his other new cards and walked out the door. "Sorry gotta run, need to put my deck together, I'll see you later Yugi."
"Bye, Joey!" Yugi waved and with that, Yugi bought some booster packs and began to rebuild his deck.
On the day before the tournament everyone was still in preparation for the big tournament tomorrow.
~Yugi's house, 12:00 AM~
Yugi was in his bedroom putting the finishing touches on his deck and off to the side, he had yet to put his Egyptian god card in.
"...and then I think I'll replace Horn Imp for... Neo the Magic Swordsman and Gaia the Fierce Knight for its effect counterpart, Swift Gaia, another Thousand Knives wouldn't hurt either, to add to my deck I'll put in Saint Dragon God of Osiris."
Yugi looked at his god card and slipped it in the middle of his deck and shuffled it when he drew his first five cards, one of them was Osiris, he shuffled again and there it was again. It was as if the card wanted to be played...
~Joey's apartment, 12:15 AM~
"Heh heh," laughed Joey as he was practicing looking at his hand and playing cards. "I'll first play Panther Warrior then I'll play Scapegoat and skyrocket his power with United We Stand! Take that Kaiba, 6000 attack just to pay for one lost scapegoat! What's that, gonna use Raigeki? Well I'll give up Breaker the Magical Warrior's magic counter to stop your little thunderstorm! HA-HA-HA!"
Joey continued practicing different combos with his old and new cards until he put himself to sleep, three minutes later.
~ Kaiba Corp, 1:30 AM, Kaiba was in a metallic room and he had his duel disc system on and was facing a dueling robot that looked a lot like Salazar and the duel began and Kaiba had placed his old deck with the Salazar robot, even with the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons in it~
The Salazar robot first placed one card facedown in defense mode ending its turn and played two magic or trap cards facedown.
Kaiba played Foolish Burial and placed Lord of D. from his deck and into his graveyard, the shuffled his deck. Then he played Monster Reborn reviving his Lord of D. then played the flute of Summoning Dragon special summoning two Twin-Headed Behemoths then sacrificing them all to bring out The God of Obelisk and the two Twin-Headed Behemoths were brought back to the field in a weaker state, ending his turn.
The Salazar robot flipped his face down card The Flute of Summoning Dragon, since the card could still work for the opposing player and special summoned Two Blue-Eyes White Dragons, but placed them in defense mode since they couldn't attack because they were special summoned.
Kaiba sacrificed both the behemoths to use Obelisk's destructive ability and destroyed the facedown card and the Salazar robot had exploded from the force and blew its head clear off its shoulders which made Kaiba laughed.
"I'm ready!" he shouted triumphantly as he walked up and stomped on the robot head crushing it. After his victory he turned in knowing that the other two god cards would be there at the tournament and it would only be a matter of time until he owned them.
~Duelist Kingdom, 5:00 AM~
"Hmm," Salazar said to himself while contemplating. "I gave Yugi Osiris and Obelisk to Seto Kaiba, but who to give The Winged Dragon of Ra?"
He pressed a button on his desk which turned on a numerous amount of TVs, showing were many different people, two of which were Michael Laskow and Ryan Stone, the top two duelists in the world.
"Those two... but I wonder," said Salazar. "Will they be willing to duel? Or maybe I could one them to use it. Well that'd be the fun part, them figuring it all out. Yes, I know who to give it to now."
Salazar pressed a button and two suits came in wearing dark glasses came in. "Get these letters delivered to the addresses on this piece of paper," he handed one of them the paper and gave the other suit the letters. "Make sure you give it to that person and by the way, you have 24 hours to get it to him."
The two suits didn't waste any time, they ran out of the room and quickly sealed the card safely and traveled by helicopter and car and it was delivered to the puzzled duelist and the two men left as strangely as they came.
"I might as well hold on to this card," he said to himself, looking at Ra. "But I might need to use my translator on how to use it."
The day of the tournament came and Yugi awoke at 5:00 AM and got dressed in his normal attire, grabbed his deck and placed the Millennium Puzzle around his neck and walked out the door and he was greeted by Joey who was dressed in a white T-Shirt, blue jeans and a green jacket, exactly like the clothes when he entered Duelist Kingdom. They both walked down the street and took a subway train towards Tokyo Docks where the ships were docked at which took several hours to get to and since they were early, they spent some time looking at the sites but at 7:00 PM they set for the docks and were there in a half hour. Then they were at the docks seeing a huge crowd of duelists.
"Well, Yugi," Joey told his best friend as they saw the five large ships at the docks. "You ready?"
"Yeah..." Yugi told him but his mind was elsewhere.
"Hey Yuge, what's wrong?" Joey asked him. "You've been acting really weird lately, what's up?"
"Well, you see..." Yugi explained to him about Salazar, Shadi, and about how Salazar got a hold of the Egyptian God Cards.
"What? He's got that damn Millennium Rod!?" shouted Joey just to get his mouth covered by Yugi.
"Joey, quiet," Yugi told him. "We don't know who could be listening to us."
"Okay, but I'll be damned if he takes control of me, I'm nobody's slave." Joey said quietly.
"Alright, then just watch out for anything suspicious Joey," Yugi said.
And with that, the two of them walked down to the docks on the cold misty morning...