Yugi looked at Duelist Kingdom from the ship and remembered all the duels
he had there, from Weevil Underwood, Mako Tsunami, the fake ghost of Kaiba,
Panik the Eliminator, the Paradox Brothers, Seto Kaiba himself, Mai, Joey
and Pegasus and none of the duels were easily won.
"Something wrong, Yugi?" Michael asked him.
"Oh no," Yugi answered him. "Just remembering some past memories here."
Michael sighed and added, "I'm sure you'll have even more great duels."
Yugi nodded and with that, Mai came out of the inside of the ship, yawning.
"Oh hey Mai," Yugi greeted. "Sleep well?"
"Sure did, some big shot from Germany thought he could get in my mouth if he'd win our duel but he was no threat and long story short: he slept in a hallway," Mai told Yugi then noticed who was right by him, "Yugi? Do you know you're right by Michael Laskow?"
"Yeah, he's a great guy, he let me sleep in his extra room," Yugi explained.
"Well if Yugi says you're okay, you can't be so bad," Mai told Michael.
"Uh, thanks," he said.
The ships began to dock into the harbor, it was greatly rebuilt from last time Yugi saw it, the docks were made entirely of cement and was fit to dock ten ships as big as the one they're on. As the first ship parked in place, several wooden bridges were placed across the port side of the ship and the duelists were getting off as quick as they could. When Yugi's ship got into place, several sides of the ship slid open and wooden bridges were placed across them. Eventually Yugi, Mai, and Michael got off the ship and were looking around to find Joey.
"Hey Yuge!" shouted a familiar voice to Yugi and came running towards the three of them. "Wait is that Michael Laskow?"
"Hey Joey," Yugi said and pointed towards Michael. "This is Michael. Joey, Michael. Michael, Joey."
Joey and Michael shook hands and then Mai brought up, "Uh guys? Where exactly do we go from here?"
A man in a suit wearing dark glasses at the end of the docks answered Mai and many others' questions said on a loudspeaker, "Attention duelists! Before the duels shall begin, you must know the rules. If you remember, you were given a dueling glove and two star chips, those are what keep you on this island, if you have no star chips you will be taking the next boat off the island. To get more star chips you must duel other duelists and ante up an equal amount of star chips from both sides, also you have to ante at least one rare card of the winning duelist's choice. When you have filled all fifteen empty slots with star chips, you qualify for the Duelist Kingdom finals and the winner of that takes on Vincent Salazar and whoever defeats him gains the choice of whatever they desire that's in Mr. Salazar's power. Now proceed to the castle for some words of wisdom from Vincent Salazar himself."
The huge crowd of duelists went over to the castle and looking up high from the center balcony emerged Vincent Salazar and said, "Welcome Duelists. I am Vincent Salazar and I look forward to see the strong and weak are weeded out because by tomorrow, the hundreds of you invited shall whittle to a small amount and shall duel in ways you never imagined. The duels are a little a different from the ones you're used to seeing, you shall find out when you duel, I big you all Good Luck and Duel to your heart's content!"
With that, Salazar walked away and entered the castle and addressed seven different men, "Eliminators, night shall fall and you'll all emerge then too weed out all the weaklings."
They all nodded got ready to duel however, one of the duelists snuck out of the castle and Salazar went into an enormous room and was served a glass of wine and pressed a button a movie screen and he began watching TV, luxuriously.
The duelists had scattered from the castle to start dueling. Yugi, Joey, Mai and Michael went towards the forest to look for someone to duel but they didn't see anyone dueling yet.
"Well excuse me boys, but I like to do my dueling alone, nothing personal," with that, Mai walked off into the forest and was gone.
"Seems like Mai still has trouble showing she's got friends," Joey said.
"Well sorry to change the subject but are we going to duel ourselves or something?" asked Michael.
"We'll run into someone," Yugi said. "Don't worry."
Just then, Yugi DID run into someone, literally. A Duelist was running and ran right into Yugi knocking them both to ground.
"Ow..." Yugi groaned as he was helped up by Yugi.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, sir." The duelist said, with his English accent. "I'll be out of your way then."
The Duelist ran like a deer away from the three of them and Yugi said, "He's sure in a hurry now."
"Yeah wonder what's up with him," Joey said but then saw something on the ground and made a huge smile. "Hey! A free star chip!"
Joey bent down and picked it up, and Yugi suddenly looked at his dueling glove to find it empty.
"Joey that's mine," Yugi said and Joey sadly handed it back to Yugi but then. "Wait a minute I had another," Yugi gasped. "That kid! He's stole one of my star chips!"
The three of them ran after the duelist and they left the clearing to be in a thicket of trees.
"Damn that kid sure is fast," commented Michael as he narrowly missed tripping over a stump.
After a few minutes of running through the trees and they looked up and saw small mountain summit where that kid was waiting at.
They climbed up the small mountain and reached the summit and the Spirit of the puzzle awoken and shouted, "Give back my star chip now!"
"Sorry I believe it's mine now," said the duelist as he placed it in his dueling glove and he had five altogether.
"You've stolen all those star chips, haven't you?" said Yami Yugi.
"So what if I have?" he asked. "No one was really fast enough to catch me but I hoped you did, I have a score to settle with you, Muto!"
"What did I do?" Yami Yugi asked.
"You threw my older brother off the boat before he had a chance to duel," said the duelist.
"Your brother? Ah yes, James Masters was it? He was stealing other duelist's star chips, he got what he deserved," Yami Yugi said. "And you seem to be no different from your brother."
"Shut up!" he shouted. "We're going to duel now and I'm knocking you out of the tournament!"
The rocky ground slid open and a huge arena with a number 23 painted on the sides opened up one side was painted red, the other was blue. The English duelist pulled out his duel disk and placed it on his left arm. Then got onto the red side and stood on a platform which rose up but what was different from these arenas from the old ones were that on the platform there was nothing to keep you from falling off and as Yugi got out his duel disk went to the blue side but was stopped by Michael.
"Hold it," Michael said as he took out his two star chips. "Use my star chips, you can still keep the spoils just give back mine."
"Mine too," Joey said as he took out his two. "With our chips altogether, we can knock this crook outta the tournament."
"I thank both of you," Yami Yugi said as he took out his one star and stood on the platform which arose when Yugi stepped on it.
"We'll wager five star chips each then," said the English duelist. "But I won't lose."
"Let's Duel!" Both the duelists said and the life points went up on their dueling panels and the two duelists placed the pure white card they were given with their invitations and placed it on the bottom of their deck and the new battle system was in play and on the corners of the arena for everyone to see that the life point count stopped at 8000.
English Duelist: 8000
Yami Yugi: 8000
"8000 life points, eh?" Joey said, "Well there's one of the new rules already."
"I'll start," said the English duelist. I play 3 magic or trap cards face down and play White Magical Hat (1000/700) in attack mode." As he ended his turn three large cards appeared face down on the arena and a man in a blue suit wearing a white cape and white top hat appeared in front of the large cards.
Yami Yugi's turn-
"Okay then I draw and I play one magic or trap card face down and I bring out Neo the Magic Swordsman (1700/1000)." A large card appeared face down on the field and a blonde-haired man in armor wielding a sword in his right hand and the tips of his fingers were shimmering blue appeared but suddenly the ground he was standing on gave out and he fell into a dark abyss.
"Oh, too bad," said the English duelist. "But this trap card known as Trap Hole destroys any monster normal summoned on the field with 1000 attack points or more is automatically destroyed leaving open your field for a direct assault."
English Duelist's turn-
"I flip my face down card which is Robbin' Goblin," behind White Magical Hat appeared a hideous green goblin with sack over his shoulder and knife in his right hand. "I also flip my other face down card, Gravekeeper's Servant," a small winged fiend appeared on the field and it was holding a sickle perfect for its size. "Plus I play Don Zaloog (1400/1500) in attack mode as well," a silver-haired man with eye patch wielding a dagger and a sword appeared next to White Magical Hat. "I also play one magic or trap card face down and send my two monsters to attack you directly." White Magical Hat jumped up high and Don Zaloog ran towards Yugi but before any of them could hit Yugi his face down card on the field flipped face up.
"Go Mirror Force!" shouted Yugi and from the card shot blinding lights all around stopping the two human-like cards and shielding their eyes but to no avail but the English duelist countered with a card of his own.
"A good thief always knows what he's up against and how to overcome it," the English Duelist said as he flipped his facedown card. "Seven Tools of the Bandit negates and destroys your Mirror Force at the mere cost of 1000 life points." The lights of Mirror Force faded and Don Zaloog and White Magical Hat stopped shielding their eyes and pursued Yugi, White Magical Hat threw a punch at Yugi and looked incredibly real and Don Zaloog threw his dagger at Yugi and pulled it out and slashed Yugi across the belly and both the cards went back to their side of the field.
English Duelist: 7000
Yami Yugi: 5600
"Now here's the real kicker, Yugi," the English duelist told him. "Since I dealt damage to you from both of my cards, their effects work, first from White Magical Hat, I randomly discard once card from your hand and I choose the one on your right," Yugi discarded the card, Monster Reborn to the graveyard, "and from Don Zaloog I can either discard the top two cards from your deck to the graveyard or one randomly from your hand, I choose to discard one from your hand, and I choose the center one," Yugi discarded Curse of Dragon to the graveyard. "Plus, from Robbin' Goblin's effect, I get to discard one card randomly from your hand to the graveyard for each monster that deal damage to your life points, and that would give you no cards in your hand." The goblin ran up to Yugi and sliced at his two remaining cards, Gazelle, the King of Mythical Beasts and Mystical Elf
"Damn!" Michael said. "That's a painful combo of cards, he's got Yugi in the palm of his hands right now."
"Hey shut up!" Joey told him. "Yugi needs our support more than ever right now."
"Okay but it might be hard for Yugi to recover from this," Michael said. "After all, James Masters and this guy must be his younger brother, Cain Masters, they were two of the top four duelists in England. I never dueled them but they were known to have won their duels probably like this."
"Well Yugi's beaten world class strategies before and I know he can do it this time, too." Joey said.
Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his card and gave a smile, "I believe this duel will go on for longer than you think, I play one card face down in defense mode and end my turn." On Yugi's side of the field a piece of the floor was flashing indicating there was a monster there.
Cain's turn-
"Well I play one card in face down in defense mode and I play one magic or trap card face down," a large card appeared behind the two monsters and right next to Don Zaloog the floor was glowing indicating a monster was there.
Yami Yugi's turn-
"Well then I play one magic or trap cards face down and end my turn."
Cain's turn-
"What a useless turn!" remarked Cain as he drew his card. "I play Cliff the Trap Remover (1200/900) and flip my face down card, Gravity Bind." A ball of energy appeared in the center of the field and went into the floor and Don Zaloog seemed to be the only one effected by the card as he fell to one knee being weighed down. "Gravity Bind makes any monsters with levels 4 or higher unable to attack and I end my turn."
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw and I play Beta the Magnet Warrior (1700/1500) in attack mode," as Beta appeared on the field, it was brought to the ground with a slam due to Gravity Bind. "And I end my turn."
Cain's turn-
Cain drew his card and said, "I play one monster card face down in defense mode and I end my turn."
"COME ON! SOMEONE ATTACK!" shouted Joey.
"Patience loud one," Cain said to him.
"LOUD ONE?!" shouted Joey as he went over to the arena to clobber him and tear him a new "A."
"Calm down, Joey," Michael said pulling him back by the tail of his jacket.
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I play Gamma the Magnet Warrior (1500/1800) in attack mode and I end my turn," the winged magnet warrior appeared on the field by Beta and was also brought down to the ground.
Cain's turn-
"Well here's my Destructive Combo," said Cain as he drew his card. "I flip my face down card Needle worm," a large purple worm dressed with spikes on its face, sides, and tail appeared on the field and five spikes at Yugi. "And from its effect, you have to discard the top five cards from your deck to the graveyard. But that isn't all, I play Morphing Jar and we all have to discard our hands and draw five new cards and I also play Card Destruction making us discard our hands and draw five new cards and I end my turn sacrificing my Needle Worm to bring out Catapult Turtle (1000/2000) in attack mode and I end my turn."
"Uh-oh," said Michael. "Next turn he's going to destroy Yugi's hand again and take a huge chunk out of his life points."
"Hey what'd I just tell you?" Joey asked. "I said Yugi may be down right now, but he'll pull through!"
Yami Yugi's turn-
"Well the only thing that your monsters are safe by right now is nothing because I bring out Alpha the Magnet Warrior (1400/1700) and I sacrifice them all to bring out Valkyrion the Magna Warrior (3500/3850)!" But even worse for you is that I play Mystical Space Typhoon and destroy your Gravity Bind."
"Oh yeah! I knew Yugi was gonna make a comeback!" Joey said to Michael.
Cain's turn-
Cain began to sweat profusely at the sight of the huge Valkyrion and there wasn't a card in his deck that could overpower it either. "I'll sacrifice my White Magical Hat, Cliff the Trap Remover, Morphing Jar and Don Zaloog to attack your life points directly." As each monster was mounted on the turtle's back, they were launched and shot right at Yugi four times, and Robbin' Goblin came back at Yugi and sliced at his cards leaving Yugi with no cards in his hand. "And I'll end my turn placing Catapult Turtle in defense mode."
Cain: 7000
Yami Yugi: 2200
Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi didn't seem stunned by that last attack and he drew his card, "Now you're the one who'll feel the pain. I sacrifice my face down defense monster to bring out the Summoned Skull (2500/1200)," the frightening Summoned Skull replaced the flashing floor and it roared as it powered up with electricity and Cain's face was in terror. "Go Summoned Skull, attack his Catapult Turtle, Lightning Strike!" The Summoned Skull's claws channeled its electrical energy and fired the blast at the turtle destroying it entirely in a cloud of smoke. "But that isn't all, Valkyrion! Attack his life points directly! Magna Sword Slash!" Valkyrion's sword illuminated with Magnetic energy as it jumped up high and came crashing down, cutting Cain's life points in half. Cain: 3500
Yami Yugi: 2200
Cain's turn-
Cain drew his card and sighed with relief, "I didn't think I'd have to use that card, I flip my facedown card, Solemn Wishes at the end of my turn I gain 500 life points. But when a good thief gets caught and is in a heap of trouble, they have a Scapegoat and I've got four." He played the card and four multi-colored sheep appeared on the field. "And I end my turn."
"Looks like thief-boy's running scared now," Joey said.
"Yeah," agreed Michael. "With those two powerhouses on Yugi's side, Cain's prolonging the inevitable."
Cain: 4000
Yami Yugi: 2200
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw and I play Celtic Guardian (1400/1200) in attack mode now I'll have my three monsters to wipe out all but one scapegoat on your side of the field. Now! Attack!" Celtic Guardian went first by charging and slicing one scapegoat in two, Summoned Skull gathered electrical energy and fired a blast of lightning turning a scapegoat into dust and Valkyrion jumped up and destroyed a Scapegoat with magnetic energy.
Cain's turn-
Cain sighed and played Hayabusa Knight (1000/700) in attack mode, "and I'll also play Secret Pass to the Treasures allowing him to attack your life points directly and with his effect, he can attack twice in the same turn." A small hole appeared below Hayabusa Knight and he jumped into it and popped out of a whole behind Yugi's monsters and jumped up and slashed Yugi twice and jumped into the hole again and popped up back on his side. "Then I'll end my turn playing one magic or trap card face down ending my turn." Cain had a sullen face knowing he was going to lose.
Cain: 4500
Yami Yugi: 200
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw...," Yugi looked at his card. "I first play one card face down and now my monsters! Attack!" As the monsters went to attack, a weird dimension absorbed their attacks. Cain had activated his face down card, Negate attack and sullen face was replaced with a smug smirk.
"You should've known I'd play a card to stop you from attacking, but my little display got you! HA, HA,HA!" he laughed.
"Actually, I did know you were going to play that, I've been tricked before in duels but not again I flip my face down card, Solemn Judgment, by paying half my life points I get to prevent Negate Attack from working, so now my monsters shall destroy your remaining life points." Celtic Guardian sliced the last scapegoat in two and Summoned Skull fried the Hayabusa Knight to look like a roasted chicken and Valkyrion finished off his remaining life points with a mighty magnetic sword slash.
Cain: 0
Yami Yugi: 200
And as the duel ended, the monsters faded from the field and the platforms dropped back to the ground and Yugi changed back but Cain jumped off the platform before it could land and went off running again, however Michael and Joey were expecting that and were standing their waiting for him.
Cain tried to run off to the side to get away from them but Michael tackled him to the ground and took out his five star chips and the duelist went off running again. Joey went to go chase after him but Michael placed his arm on his shoulder, signifying him don't.
"But shouldn't we stop him?" asked Joey.
"Why bother? There's data on the duels so even if he steals more star chips, they wouldn't count and security will find him and take him away," Michael said.
"Okay, then." Joey said as the two of them walked back to Yugi and gave him the star chips, making a total of ten.
"Well since you guys put up your star chips on the line to get back mine, here," Yugi said as he handed them three star chips each and placed in three of his own. "But what to do with the last one?"
"You should keep it, Yugi." Michael told him. "Because you should've had two to begin with, so technically you should have four."
Yugi then placed the fourth one in and the three friends walked away from the dueling field to find some other people to duel.
"Something wrong, Yugi?" Michael asked him.
"Oh no," Yugi answered him. "Just remembering some past memories here."
Michael sighed and added, "I'm sure you'll have even more great duels."
Yugi nodded and with that, Mai came out of the inside of the ship, yawning.
"Oh hey Mai," Yugi greeted. "Sleep well?"
"Sure did, some big shot from Germany thought he could get in my mouth if he'd win our duel but he was no threat and long story short: he slept in a hallway," Mai told Yugi then noticed who was right by him, "Yugi? Do you know you're right by Michael Laskow?"
"Yeah, he's a great guy, he let me sleep in his extra room," Yugi explained.
"Well if Yugi says you're okay, you can't be so bad," Mai told Michael.
"Uh, thanks," he said.
The ships began to dock into the harbor, it was greatly rebuilt from last time Yugi saw it, the docks were made entirely of cement and was fit to dock ten ships as big as the one they're on. As the first ship parked in place, several wooden bridges were placed across the port side of the ship and the duelists were getting off as quick as they could. When Yugi's ship got into place, several sides of the ship slid open and wooden bridges were placed across them. Eventually Yugi, Mai, and Michael got off the ship and were looking around to find Joey.
"Hey Yuge!" shouted a familiar voice to Yugi and came running towards the three of them. "Wait is that Michael Laskow?"
"Hey Joey," Yugi said and pointed towards Michael. "This is Michael. Joey, Michael. Michael, Joey."
Joey and Michael shook hands and then Mai brought up, "Uh guys? Where exactly do we go from here?"
A man in a suit wearing dark glasses at the end of the docks answered Mai and many others' questions said on a loudspeaker, "Attention duelists! Before the duels shall begin, you must know the rules. If you remember, you were given a dueling glove and two star chips, those are what keep you on this island, if you have no star chips you will be taking the next boat off the island. To get more star chips you must duel other duelists and ante up an equal amount of star chips from both sides, also you have to ante at least one rare card of the winning duelist's choice. When you have filled all fifteen empty slots with star chips, you qualify for the Duelist Kingdom finals and the winner of that takes on Vincent Salazar and whoever defeats him gains the choice of whatever they desire that's in Mr. Salazar's power. Now proceed to the castle for some words of wisdom from Vincent Salazar himself."
The huge crowd of duelists went over to the castle and looking up high from the center balcony emerged Vincent Salazar and said, "Welcome Duelists. I am Vincent Salazar and I look forward to see the strong and weak are weeded out because by tomorrow, the hundreds of you invited shall whittle to a small amount and shall duel in ways you never imagined. The duels are a little a different from the ones you're used to seeing, you shall find out when you duel, I big you all Good Luck and Duel to your heart's content!"
With that, Salazar walked away and entered the castle and addressed seven different men, "Eliminators, night shall fall and you'll all emerge then too weed out all the weaklings."
They all nodded got ready to duel however, one of the duelists snuck out of the castle and Salazar went into an enormous room and was served a glass of wine and pressed a button a movie screen and he began watching TV, luxuriously.
The duelists had scattered from the castle to start dueling. Yugi, Joey, Mai and Michael went towards the forest to look for someone to duel but they didn't see anyone dueling yet.
"Well excuse me boys, but I like to do my dueling alone, nothing personal," with that, Mai walked off into the forest and was gone.
"Seems like Mai still has trouble showing she's got friends," Joey said.
"Well sorry to change the subject but are we going to duel ourselves or something?" asked Michael.
"We'll run into someone," Yugi said. "Don't worry."
Just then, Yugi DID run into someone, literally. A Duelist was running and ran right into Yugi knocking them both to ground.
"Ow..." Yugi groaned as he was helped up by Yugi.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry, sir." The duelist said, with his English accent. "I'll be out of your way then."
The Duelist ran like a deer away from the three of them and Yugi said, "He's sure in a hurry now."
"Yeah wonder what's up with him," Joey said but then saw something on the ground and made a huge smile. "Hey! A free star chip!"
Joey bent down and picked it up, and Yugi suddenly looked at his dueling glove to find it empty.
"Joey that's mine," Yugi said and Joey sadly handed it back to Yugi but then. "Wait a minute I had another," Yugi gasped. "That kid! He's stole one of my star chips!"
The three of them ran after the duelist and they left the clearing to be in a thicket of trees.
"Damn that kid sure is fast," commented Michael as he narrowly missed tripping over a stump.
After a few minutes of running through the trees and they looked up and saw small mountain summit where that kid was waiting at.
They climbed up the small mountain and reached the summit and the Spirit of the puzzle awoken and shouted, "Give back my star chip now!"
"Sorry I believe it's mine now," said the duelist as he placed it in his dueling glove and he had five altogether.
"You've stolen all those star chips, haven't you?" said Yami Yugi.
"So what if I have?" he asked. "No one was really fast enough to catch me but I hoped you did, I have a score to settle with you, Muto!"
"What did I do?" Yami Yugi asked.
"You threw my older brother off the boat before he had a chance to duel," said the duelist.
"Your brother? Ah yes, James Masters was it? He was stealing other duelist's star chips, he got what he deserved," Yami Yugi said. "And you seem to be no different from your brother."
"Shut up!" he shouted. "We're going to duel now and I'm knocking you out of the tournament!"
The rocky ground slid open and a huge arena with a number 23 painted on the sides opened up one side was painted red, the other was blue. The English duelist pulled out his duel disk and placed it on his left arm. Then got onto the red side and stood on a platform which rose up but what was different from these arenas from the old ones were that on the platform there was nothing to keep you from falling off and as Yugi got out his duel disk went to the blue side but was stopped by Michael.
"Hold it," Michael said as he took out his two star chips. "Use my star chips, you can still keep the spoils just give back mine."
"Mine too," Joey said as he took out his two. "With our chips altogether, we can knock this crook outta the tournament."
"I thank both of you," Yami Yugi said as he took out his one star and stood on the platform which arose when Yugi stepped on it.
"We'll wager five star chips each then," said the English duelist. "But I won't lose."
"Let's Duel!" Both the duelists said and the life points went up on their dueling panels and the two duelists placed the pure white card they were given with their invitations and placed it on the bottom of their deck and the new battle system was in play and on the corners of the arena for everyone to see that the life point count stopped at 8000.
English Duelist: 8000
Yami Yugi: 8000
"8000 life points, eh?" Joey said, "Well there's one of the new rules already."
"I'll start," said the English duelist. I play 3 magic or trap cards face down and play White Magical Hat (1000/700) in attack mode." As he ended his turn three large cards appeared face down on the arena and a man in a blue suit wearing a white cape and white top hat appeared in front of the large cards.
Yami Yugi's turn-
"Okay then I draw and I play one magic or trap card face down and I bring out Neo the Magic Swordsman (1700/1000)." A large card appeared face down on the field and a blonde-haired man in armor wielding a sword in his right hand and the tips of his fingers were shimmering blue appeared but suddenly the ground he was standing on gave out and he fell into a dark abyss.
"Oh, too bad," said the English duelist. "But this trap card known as Trap Hole destroys any monster normal summoned on the field with 1000 attack points or more is automatically destroyed leaving open your field for a direct assault."
English Duelist's turn-
"I flip my face down card which is Robbin' Goblin," behind White Magical Hat appeared a hideous green goblin with sack over his shoulder and knife in his right hand. "I also flip my other face down card, Gravekeeper's Servant," a small winged fiend appeared on the field and it was holding a sickle perfect for its size. "Plus I play Don Zaloog (1400/1500) in attack mode as well," a silver-haired man with eye patch wielding a dagger and a sword appeared next to White Magical Hat. "I also play one magic or trap card face down and send my two monsters to attack you directly." White Magical Hat jumped up high and Don Zaloog ran towards Yugi but before any of them could hit Yugi his face down card on the field flipped face up.
"Go Mirror Force!" shouted Yugi and from the card shot blinding lights all around stopping the two human-like cards and shielding their eyes but to no avail but the English duelist countered with a card of his own.
"A good thief always knows what he's up against and how to overcome it," the English Duelist said as he flipped his facedown card. "Seven Tools of the Bandit negates and destroys your Mirror Force at the mere cost of 1000 life points." The lights of Mirror Force faded and Don Zaloog and White Magical Hat stopped shielding their eyes and pursued Yugi, White Magical Hat threw a punch at Yugi and looked incredibly real and Don Zaloog threw his dagger at Yugi and pulled it out and slashed Yugi across the belly and both the cards went back to their side of the field.
English Duelist: 7000
Yami Yugi: 5600
"Now here's the real kicker, Yugi," the English duelist told him. "Since I dealt damage to you from both of my cards, their effects work, first from White Magical Hat, I randomly discard once card from your hand and I choose the one on your right," Yugi discarded the card, Monster Reborn to the graveyard, "and from Don Zaloog I can either discard the top two cards from your deck to the graveyard or one randomly from your hand, I choose to discard one from your hand, and I choose the center one," Yugi discarded Curse of Dragon to the graveyard. "Plus, from Robbin' Goblin's effect, I get to discard one card randomly from your hand to the graveyard for each monster that deal damage to your life points, and that would give you no cards in your hand." The goblin ran up to Yugi and sliced at his two remaining cards, Gazelle, the King of Mythical Beasts and Mystical Elf
"Damn!" Michael said. "That's a painful combo of cards, he's got Yugi in the palm of his hands right now."
"Hey shut up!" Joey told him. "Yugi needs our support more than ever right now."
"Okay but it might be hard for Yugi to recover from this," Michael said. "After all, James Masters and this guy must be his younger brother, Cain Masters, they were two of the top four duelists in England. I never dueled them but they were known to have won their duels probably like this."
"Well Yugi's beaten world class strategies before and I know he can do it this time, too." Joey said.
Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi drew his card and gave a smile, "I believe this duel will go on for longer than you think, I play one card face down in defense mode and end my turn." On Yugi's side of the field a piece of the floor was flashing indicating there was a monster there.
Cain's turn-
"Well I play one card in face down in defense mode and I play one magic or trap card face down," a large card appeared behind the two monsters and right next to Don Zaloog the floor was glowing indicating a monster was there.
Yami Yugi's turn-
"Well then I play one magic or trap cards face down and end my turn."
Cain's turn-
"What a useless turn!" remarked Cain as he drew his card. "I play Cliff the Trap Remover (1200/900) and flip my face down card, Gravity Bind." A ball of energy appeared in the center of the field and went into the floor and Don Zaloog seemed to be the only one effected by the card as he fell to one knee being weighed down. "Gravity Bind makes any monsters with levels 4 or higher unable to attack and I end my turn."
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw and I play Beta the Magnet Warrior (1700/1500) in attack mode," as Beta appeared on the field, it was brought to the ground with a slam due to Gravity Bind. "And I end my turn."
Cain's turn-
Cain drew his card and said, "I play one monster card face down in defense mode and I end my turn."
"COME ON! SOMEONE ATTACK!" shouted Joey.
"Patience loud one," Cain said to him.
"LOUD ONE?!" shouted Joey as he went over to the arena to clobber him and tear him a new "A."
"Calm down, Joey," Michael said pulling him back by the tail of his jacket.
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I play Gamma the Magnet Warrior (1500/1800) in attack mode and I end my turn," the winged magnet warrior appeared on the field by Beta and was also brought down to the ground.
Cain's turn-
"Well here's my Destructive Combo," said Cain as he drew his card. "I flip my face down card Needle worm," a large purple worm dressed with spikes on its face, sides, and tail appeared on the field and five spikes at Yugi. "And from its effect, you have to discard the top five cards from your deck to the graveyard. But that isn't all, I play Morphing Jar and we all have to discard our hands and draw five new cards and I also play Card Destruction making us discard our hands and draw five new cards and I end my turn sacrificing my Needle Worm to bring out Catapult Turtle (1000/2000) in attack mode and I end my turn."
"Uh-oh," said Michael. "Next turn he's going to destroy Yugi's hand again and take a huge chunk out of his life points."
"Hey what'd I just tell you?" Joey asked. "I said Yugi may be down right now, but he'll pull through!"
Yami Yugi's turn-
"Well the only thing that your monsters are safe by right now is nothing because I bring out Alpha the Magnet Warrior (1400/1700) and I sacrifice them all to bring out Valkyrion the Magna Warrior (3500/3850)!" But even worse for you is that I play Mystical Space Typhoon and destroy your Gravity Bind."
"Oh yeah! I knew Yugi was gonna make a comeback!" Joey said to Michael.
Cain's turn-
Cain began to sweat profusely at the sight of the huge Valkyrion and there wasn't a card in his deck that could overpower it either. "I'll sacrifice my White Magical Hat, Cliff the Trap Remover, Morphing Jar and Don Zaloog to attack your life points directly." As each monster was mounted on the turtle's back, they were launched and shot right at Yugi four times, and Robbin' Goblin came back at Yugi and sliced at his cards leaving Yugi with no cards in his hand. "And I'll end my turn placing Catapult Turtle in defense mode."
Cain: 7000
Yami Yugi: 2200
Yami Yugi's turn-
Yugi didn't seem stunned by that last attack and he drew his card, "Now you're the one who'll feel the pain. I sacrifice my face down defense monster to bring out the Summoned Skull (2500/1200)," the frightening Summoned Skull replaced the flashing floor and it roared as it powered up with electricity and Cain's face was in terror. "Go Summoned Skull, attack his Catapult Turtle, Lightning Strike!" The Summoned Skull's claws channeled its electrical energy and fired the blast at the turtle destroying it entirely in a cloud of smoke. "But that isn't all, Valkyrion! Attack his life points directly! Magna Sword Slash!" Valkyrion's sword illuminated with Magnetic energy as it jumped up high and came crashing down, cutting Cain's life points in half. Cain: 3500
Yami Yugi: 2200
Cain's turn-
Cain drew his card and sighed with relief, "I didn't think I'd have to use that card, I flip my facedown card, Solemn Wishes at the end of my turn I gain 500 life points. But when a good thief gets caught and is in a heap of trouble, they have a Scapegoat and I've got four." He played the card and four multi-colored sheep appeared on the field. "And I end my turn."
"Looks like thief-boy's running scared now," Joey said.
"Yeah," agreed Michael. "With those two powerhouses on Yugi's side, Cain's prolonging the inevitable."
Cain: 4000
Yami Yugi: 2200
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw and I play Celtic Guardian (1400/1200) in attack mode now I'll have my three monsters to wipe out all but one scapegoat on your side of the field. Now! Attack!" Celtic Guardian went first by charging and slicing one scapegoat in two, Summoned Skull gathered electrical energy and fired a blast of lightning turning a scapegoat into dust and Valkyrion jumped up and destroyed a Scapegoat with magnetic energy.
Cain's turn-
Cain sighed and played Hayabusa Knight (1000/700) in attack mode, "and I'll also play Secret Pass to the Treasures allowing him to attack your life points directly and with his effect, he can attack twice in the same turn." A small hole appeared below Hayabusa Knight and he jumped into it and popped out of a whole behind Yugi's monsters and jumped up and slashed Yugi twice and jumped into the hole again and popped up back on his side. "Then I'll end my turn playing one magic or trap card face down ending my turn." Cain had a sullen face knowing he was going to lose.
Cain: 4500
Yami Yugi: 200
Yami Yugi's turn-
"I draw...," Yugi looked at his card. "I first play one card face down and now my monsters! Attack!" As the monsters went to attack, a weird dimension absorbed their attacks. Cain had activated his face down card, Negate attack and sullen face was replaced with a smug smirk.
"You should've known I'd play a card to stop you from attacking, but my little display got you! HA, HA,HA!" he laughed.
"Actually, I did know you were going to play that, I've been tricked before in duels but not again I flip my face down card, Solemn Judgment, by paying half my life points I get to prevent Negate Attack from working, so now my monsters shall destroy your remaining life points." Celtic Guardian sliced the last scapegoat in two and Summoned Skull fried the Hayabusa Knight to look like a roasted chicken and Valkyrion finished off his remaining life points with a mighty magnetic sword slash.
Cain: 0
Yami Yugi: 200
And as the duel ended, the monsters faded from the field and the platforms dropped back to the ground and Yugi changed back but Cain jumped off the platform before it could land and went off running again, however Michael and Joey were expecting that and were standing their waiting for him.
Cain tried to run off to the side to get away from them but Michael tackled him to the ground and took out his five star chips and the duelist went off running again. Joey went to go chase after him but Michael placed his arm on his shoulder, signifying him don't.
"But shouldn't we stop him?" asked Joey.
"Why bother? There's data on the duels so even if he steals more star chips, they wouldn't count and security will find him and take him away," Michael said.
"Okay, then." Joey said as the two of them walked back to Yugi and gave him the star chips, making a total of ten.
"Well since you guys put up your star chips on the line to get back mine, here," Yugi said as he handed them three star chips each and placed in three of his own. "But what to do with the last one?"
"You should keep it, Yugi." Michael told him. "Because you should've had two to begin with, so technically you should have four."
Yugi then placed the fourth one in and the three friends walked away from the dueling field to find some other people to duel.