It had been six hours since the Duelist Kingdom Tournament began and
already 100 duelists were already shipping off. But there were plenty more
left, but they were dropping by the minute.
A very familiar scene happened while Yugi and his friends were on the island. They were walking through a path in the forest then a loud roar bellowed around them.
"What was that?" Michael asked looking around.
Yugi and Michael looked around then heard the roaring coming from Joey' stomach.
"Uh it's my stomach," Joey said. "Just like last time, how could we forget food like last time?"
Joey began looking around for anything to eat then went running over to a clearing where a beautiful ocean view was and a duel was taking place.
Michael and Yugi caught up with Joey and they were watching a duel between Rex Raptor and Mako Tsunami. The field looked like an ocean to a wasteland, indicating both the duelists had played Field Magic cards, powering up their respective cards. Mako had The Legendary Fisherman (1850/1600) out and High Tide Gyojin (1650/1300) out. While Rex only had Two-Headed King Rex (1600/1200) and one face down card and the life point count was at:
Mako: 600
Rex: 1900
"And I'll first attack your Two-Headed King Rex with High Tide Gyojin!" Mako told Rex as the fish warrior flew out of the water and ripped through the two-headed dinosaur making Rex lose fifty life points. "And I'll finish you off with the remainder of your life points with my Legendary Fisherman!" As the fisherman hurled his harpoon into Rex, his life points began to drop
"Hold it!" Rex said flipping his face down card before his life points reached zero, "I'll activate my trap card, Attack and Receive. When I lose life points, you will too. 700 to be exact and that would make this duel a draw."
Mako: 0
Rex: 0
Joey was watching the duel the duel and even though he missed most of it, he liked what he saw.
As the platforms dropped, Rex and Mako shook hands and began to walk away but noticed Joey and Yugi.
"Ah, hello Yugi and Joey!" greeted Mako.
"Hey Muto, hey Wheeler," Rex said.
"So none of you get kicked out of the tournament?" asked Yugi.
"Nope, looks like we'll have to duel each other another time," said Rex.
"Yes, that duel took forever, we were down to our last cards," Mako added.
"The Japanese Regional Champions," Michael said noticing them. "Rex Raptor and Mako Tsunami, you two have been in the regionals for years, I'm surprised you haven't moved on to the World Championships."
The two of them looked at each other and laughed.
"We're not that good," Mako said laughing.
"Yeah we got our asses handed to us on our first matches," said Rex also laughing.
"Say do you guys know where some food might be?" asked Joey.
"There's a vending machine right behind you," Rex said pointing to two vending machines holding soda and snacks.
"Wow!" said Joey running over to the vending machines, ogling at the junk food.
"Well I should get going," said Mako. "I still need eight star chips until I can qualify."
"Me too," said Rex. "I thought if I beat Fish-boy, I'd be the first finalist."
"Well you thought wrong Dino-Breath," remarked Mako. "Farewell Yugi, and you too Joey."
"Yeah, see ya," said Rex. "Hope to see ya in the finals Wheeler."
As the Ocean duelist and the Dinosaur duelist went their separate ways, Yugi and Michael turned to Joey, trying to break open a vending machine, but the metal bars surrounding it prevented that. After a few more tries at breaking the metal, Joey gave up.
"Why!?" shouted Joey. "Why must I suffer???"
"Calm down Joey," said Michael pulling out some money. "I brought money, it's on the house."
"Really? All RIGHT!" Joey said as Michael gave him and Yugi plenty of money for snacks.
Joey had bought five bags of potato chips, a bag of peanuts, two boxes of animal crackers, four chocolate bars, and two cans of soda. Yugi just had one candy bar, and a can of soda.
"Joey," Michael said looking at his almost-empty wallet. "I think you're taking advantage of my generous offer."
"I'll pay ya back," Joey said opening up the bags of potato chips. "I swear."
Michael then helped himself to the vending machines and after 15 minutes, they had finished.
"That hit the spot," Joey said patting his full stomach.
"Yeah," agreed Yugi. "By the way, Michael. Did you meet Ryan Stone before the World Championships?"
"Yeah, I did," he said. "We both were in the Nationals and dueled each other several times, but he was ruthless in duels, never giving anyone a chance in a duel..."
~Meanwhile...~
Ryan was on a mountain plateau and sighed. He had ten star chips and only needed five more to qualify. However, all his duels were challenges made by other people and he defeated them all without a real challenge.
"You! Ryan Stone!" shouted a young voice behind him.
Ryan turned around to see a really young girl, probably 10 or 12 years old. She had blonde hair in pigtails, and had a Teddy-Bear backpack along with a teddy bear in her arms and her green eyes were filled with anger at Ryan.
"Oh hello Rebecca," he answered.
"Don't 'hello' me!" Rebecca Hawkins, the former American champion answered. "You know exactly why I'm here! I'm here to challenge you to a duel and knock you out of the tournament!"
"You're still mad over the Nationals, huh?" he asked.
"You cheated!" she shouted. "That stupid Limiter Removal is your finisher for everything, so I challenge you to duel with out it. I wager all three of my star chips!"
"Just three?" he asked. "So much for the 'child prodigy,' you said you'd have won all fifteen by now."
"I've had some setbacks!" she answered. "I should've been the National Champion! My deck was unbeatable!"
"YOUR deck? That 'deck' was made by your grandpa," Michael said. "It has a bunch of older cards, they can't compete with the new cards."
"That's why I improved it!" Rebecca said. "It's unbeatable now, isn't it Teddy?"
"Oh yes Rebecca! That victory was all a fluke for him!" Teddy said but it was really Rebecca throwing her voice. "He could never do it again!"
"That's why I challenge you right here, right now! Winner take all!" Rebecca said taking out her duel disc from her backpack.
"As you wish," Ryan said standing up, brushing off his Duel Disk on his right arm, indicating he was left-handed. Ryan took out the two Limiter Removals from his deck and into a case in his backpack.
Then on the plateau, an arena rose up from the floor and the platforms elevated down and both the duelists walked on their sides and it rose up to the arena.
"So winner take all?" asked Ryan shuffling his deck. "My ten star chips for your three."
"I'll show you, this how the real American Tournament should have ended!" Rebecca said.
"Let's duel!" they both said as their life point meters went up to 8000.
"Losers first," Rebecca said picking up five cards.
"Fine," Ryan replied picking up five cards, and an additional card. "I'll play Master Kyonshee (1750/1000) in attack mode and I'll end my turn." A dead body rose from the ground and wielding a curved, double-edged sword and a piece of parchment covered his face.
Rebecca's turn-
"Now you'll lose one quarter of your life points in one turn!" Rebecca said drawing her card. "I play Cannon Soldier (1400/1300) in attack mode and I'll play Scapegoat!" As the mechanical soldier with a mounted cannon appeared, so did four different colored sheep. "I'll first sacrifice each sheep token to deal a total of 2000 damage!" As each sheep's energy was drained from its body and given to Cannon Soldier, it fired four blasts of energy directly at Ryan four times. "But I'm not done! I also play Rush Recklessly making my Cannon Soldier a 2100/1300 for one turn. Now Cannon Soldier! Attack his Master Kyonshee!" The cannon soldier charged its cannon and fired another blast destroying Ryan's Master Kyonshee completely. "Whee! That'll end my turn!"
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 8000
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card and said, "I play Thunder Nyan Nyan (1900/800) in attack mode and I'll attack your Cannon Soldier. Thunder Nyan Nyan! Thunder Shockwave!" The drummer woman slammed her drumsticks on the drums creating a visible wave of sound with electricity hitting Cannon Soldier, shattering it like glass. "I'll end my turn."
"Oh No! My precious Cannon Soldier!" Rebecca said as she saw her monster fall and her life points drop.
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 7500
Rebecca's turn-
Rebecca drew her card and said, "Look what card we drew Teddy! I play Monster Reborn reviving my Cannon Soldier, and I'll sacrifice it to bring out Millennium Shield (0/3000)," as the Cannon Soldier appeared on the field, it vanished once more and an enormous shield of red on the inside and solid gold on the outside with the millennium symbol in the center. "But that's not all, I'll equip it with Horn of Light increasing its defense even further to 3800!" Right above the millennium symbol an illuminating horn appeared. "And I'll end my turn!"
Ryan's turn-
"I'll draw and I'll play Sapphire Dragon (1900/1600) in attack mode ending my turn," Ryan said as the sapphire blue dragon appeared.
Rebecca's turn-
Rebecca drew her card and said, "I play Ring of Magnetism lowering my Millennium Shield's defense to 3300, but it's worth it, and I also play one card face down in defense mode ending my turn."
Ryan's turn-
"I'm well aware what Ring of Magnetism does," Ryan said drawing his card. "I also know what you're going to do, you're trying to bring out your Shadow Ghoul with a great amount of power like last time. But unlike you, I improved my deck, and here's one of my new cards, I'll sacrifice Thunder Nyan Nyan to bring out Blowback Dragon (2300/1200)."
A machine dragon, resembling Barrel Dragon appeared, but this dragon only had one cannon, mounted on its head. As it appeared, Ryan pulled out a quarter. "I'm using his effect I flip a coin three times, if I get 2 out of 3 heads, it can destroy one card on the field. Including magic or trap cards."
Ryan then flipped the coin three times and they landed on heads, tails, and... heads. Then Blowback Dragon charged its cannon. "I'll have him attack your Millennium Shield. Attack!" The dragon fired a blue blast of energy, shattering the shield to shards.
"No!! My impenetrable shield!" Rebecca cried. "My strategy gone down the drain!"
"That strategy was biding your time only to discard your monster cards," Ryan said. "Now I'll damage you some more by hitting you with my Sapphire Dragon, Attack!" Luster Dragon breathed out a river of blue flames frying Rebecca's face down card and leaving her open for an attack. "Now Blowback Dragon, attack her directly." The mechanical dragon fired a blast of energy directly at Rebecca.
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 5200
Rebecca's turn-
Rebecca began to panic as she drew her card, "I play another card facedown in defense mode."
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card and said, "Rebecca, I'll be blunt. I'm pretty sure I can wipe out the rest of your life points in this turn."
"What?" she said. "There's no way will you win. I'm a child prodigy and this duel end once I..."
"Seriously," Ryan interrupted. "This duel will probably end in once I use Blowback Dragon's effect.
"Fine use your stupid theory," Rebecca said.
"Okay," Ryan sighed. "I play Mechanical Chaser (1850/800)," then he pulled out his quarter again and flipped it and the first two results were heads, and Blowback Dragon fired another charged blast destroying it. "Now I'll attack you with all three of my monsters, dealing 6050 direct damage.
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 0
"Oh no!" Rebecca cried at her defeat then as her platform dropped and she ran away not giving her star chips.
Ryan only shrugged, knowing she'd get caught because she bet all her star chips and lost so security would be after her. But he didn't seem to care, he stayed on the plateau knowing he could get some more.
~Meanwhile back where Yugi, Joey and Michael were...~
Everyone had finished eating and they were in talk over Ryan.
"So Ryan's a ruthless duelist without a care for anyone?" asked Joey.
"Yeah," Michael said. "You should've seen his other tournaments."
"He's really someone we should watch out for," Yugi said.
"Well, it's 3:00 PM right now how about we catch in some duels?" asked Michael.
"Sure," said Yugi standing up.
"Why not?" Joey asked getting up and stretching.
The three of them watched some intense and not-so-intense duels and pretty soon, the sun was beginning to set.
~Salazar's Castle, 5:43 PM~
"This is it my eliminators," Salazar said to five men, one had already left. "As the sun drops, you shall weed out the weaker duelists. I do not tolerate failure, Mr. Underwood is an example of that. You were all given 10 star chips, I expect you to come back with both dueling gloves full to a total of sixty. It will be a long night for you all, show no mercy and never let your guard down for a second. Now go to your designated spots, the sun sets completely in a half hour."
The eliminators nodded in agreement and went off to their areas of duelist kingdom, but Salazar stopped one of them.
"Wait you," Salazar said to him. "I have a special mission for you, you're going to wait by the docks."
The eliminator knew what he was talking about and began laughing and set out towards the docks.
~Duelist Kingdom Forest, 6:10~
"So should we sleep here tonight?" asked Michael leaning against a tree.
"We did that last time," Yugi said.
"Yeah, hardly got any sleep though," Joey said. "Besides, it's a bit early."
"I guess we'll make due," Michael said. "Say Joey, how about a quick duel, for fun?"
"Okay sure," Joey said, taking out his deck.
Suddenly, the sun had disappeared awfully fast and the night sky and the full moon were all that showed already.
"That was freaky," said Joey.
"That can't be good," Yugi said as he looked to where the sun once was.
"Maybe we should duel another time," Michael said.
~30 miles northwest of Duelist Kingdom~
"I maybe late," Kaiba said to himself, flying a Kaiba Corp helicopter. "But I'm sure I could have won enough star chips in an hour or so. But Salazar will pay for what he's done to my company."
After a few more minutes of flying, Kaiba noticed how fast the sun had set but he could see Duelist Kingdom already and he saw the docks. He landed the helicopter in the center and got out, taking his Duel Disk with him.
As he walked to leave the docks, a dark figure in a robe was standing in his way.
"You're Seto Kaiba I presume," he said.
"What of it?" Kaiba said.
"I'm here to welcome you to Duelist Kingdom again," the man said. "And to take you out of the duel right here and now."
"Get lost," Kaiba said. "I'm not dueling any of Salazar's goons, he'll have to duel me face to face."
"I'm so sorry you feel that way," the man said pulling out a remote from the dark robe he wore and pressed a red button on it, and Kaiba's helicopter exploded greatly and the man was left cackling...
A very familiar scene happened while Yugi and his friends were on the island. They were walking through a path in the forest then a loud roar bellowed around them.
"What was that?" Michael asked looking around.
Yugi and Michael looked around then heard the roaring coming from Joey' stomach.
"Uh it's my stomach," Joey said. "Just like last time, how could we forget food like last time?"
Joey began looking around for anything to eat then went running over to a clearing where a beautiful ocean view was and a duel was taking place.
Michael and Yugi caught up with Joey and they were watching a duel between Rex Raptor and Mako Tsunami. The field looked like an ocean to a wasteland, indicating both the duelists had played Field Magic cards, powering up their respective cards. Mako had The Legendary Fisherman (1850/1600) out and High Tide Gyojin (1650/1300) out. While Rex only had Two-Headed King Rex (1600/1200) and one face down card and the life point count was at:
Mako: 600
Rex: 1900
"And I'll first attack your Two-Headed King Rex with High Tide Gyojin!" Mako told Rex as the fish warrior flew out of the water and ripped through the two-headed dinosaur making Rex lose fifty life points. "And I'll finish you off with the remainder of your life points with my Legendary Fisherman!" As the fisherman hurled his harpoon into Rex, his life points began to drop
"Hold it!" Rex said flipping his face down card before his life points reached zero, "I'll activate my trap card, Attack and Receive. When I lose life points, you will too. 700 to be exact and that would make this duel a draw."
Mako: 0
Rex: 0
Joey was watching the duel the duel and even though he missed most of it, he liked what he saw.
As the platforms dropped, Rex and Mako shook hands and began to walk away but noticed Joey and Yugi.
"Ah, hello Yugi and Joey!" greeted Mako.
"Hey Muto, hey Wheeler," Rex said.
"So none of you get kicked out of the tournament?" asked Yugi.
"Nope, looks like we'll have to duel each other another time," said Rex.
"Yes, that duel took forever, we were down to our last cards," Mako added.
"The Japanese Regional Champions," Michael said noticing them. "Rex Raptor and Mako Tsunami, you two have been in the regionals for years, I'm surprised you haven't moved on to the World Championships."
The two of them looked at each other and laughed.
"We're not that good," Mako said laughing.
"Yeah we got our asses handed to us on our first matches," said Rex also laughing.
"Say do you guys know where some food might be?" asked Joey.
"There's a vending machine right behind you," Rex said pointing to two vending machines holding soda and snacks.
"Wow!" said Joey running over to the vending machines, ogling at the junk food.
"Well I should get going," said Mako. "I still need eight star chips until I can qualify."
"Me too," said Rex. "I thought if I beat Fish-boy, I'd be the first finalist."
"Well you thought wrong Dino-Breath," remarked Mako. "Farewell Yugi, and you too Joey."
"Yeah, see ya," said Rex. "Hope to see ya in the finals Wheeler."
As the Ocean duelist and the Dinosaur duelist went their separate ways, Yugi and Michael turned to Joey, trying to break open a vending machine, but the metal bars surrounding it prevented that. After a few more tries at breaking the metal, Joey gave up.
"Why!?" shouted Joey. "Why must I suffer???"
"Calm down Joey," said Michael pulling out some money. "I brought money, it's on the house."
"Really? All RIGHT!" Joey said as Michael gave him and Yugi plenty of money for snacks.
Joey had bought five bags of potato chips, a bag of peanuts, two boxes of animal crackers, four chocolate bars, and two cans of soda. Yugi just had one candy bar, and a can of soda.
"Joey," Michael said looking at his almost-empty wallet. "I think you're taking advantage of my generous offer."
"I'll pay ya back," Joey said opening up the bags of potato chips. "I swear."
Michael then helped himself to the vending machines and after 15 minutes, they had finished.
"That hit the spot," Joey said patting his full stomach.
"Yeah," agreed Yugi. "By the way, Michael. Did you meet Ryan Stone before the World Championships?"
"Yeah, I did," he said. "We both were in the Nationals and dueled each other several times, but he was ruthless in duels, never giving anyone a chance in a duel..."
~Meanwhile...~
Ryan was on a mountain plateau and sighed. He had ten star chips and only needed five more to qualify. However, all his duels were challenges made by other people and he defeated them all without a real challenge.
"You! Ryan Stone!" shouted a young voice behind him.
Ryan turned around to see a really young girl, probably 10 or 12 years old. She had blonde hair in pigtails, and had a Teddy-Bear backpack along with a teddy bear in her arms and her green eyes were filled with anger at Ryan.
"Oh hello Rebecca," he answered.
"Don't 'hello' me!" Rebecca Hawkins, the former American champion answered. "You know exactly why I'm here! I'm here to challenge you to a duel and knock you out of the tournament!"
"You're still mad over the Nationals, huh?" he asked.
"You cheated!" she shouted. "That stupid Limiter Removal is your finisher for everything, so I challenge you to duel with out it. I wager all three of my star chips!"
"Just three?" he asked. "So much for the 'child prodigy,' you said you'd have won all fifteen by now."
"I've had some setbacks!" she answered. "I should've been the National Champion! My deck was unbeatable!"
"YOUR deck? That 'deck' was made by your grandpa," Michael said. "It has a bunch of older cards, they can't compete with the new cards."
"That's why I improved it!" Rebecca said. "It's unbeatable now, isn't it Teddy?"
"Oh yes Rebecca! That victory was all a fluke for him!" Teddy said but it was really Rebecca throwing her voice. "He could never do it again!"
"That's why I challenge you right here, right now! Winner take all!" Rebecca said taking out her duel disc from her backpack.
"As you wish," Ryan said standing up, brushing off his Duel Disk on his right arm, indicating he was left-handed. Ryan took out the two Limiter Removals from his deck and into a case in his backpack.
Then on the plateau, an arena rose up from the floor and the platforms elevated down and both the duelists walked on their sides and it rose up to the arena.
"So winner take all?" asked Ryan shuffling his deck. "My ten star chips for your three."
"I'll show you, this how the real American Tournament should have ended!" Rebecca said.
"Let's duel!" they both said as their life point meters went up to 8000.
"Losers first," Rebecca said picking up five cards.
"Fine," Ryan replied picking up five cards, and an additional card. "I'll play Master Kyonshee (1750/1000) in attack mode and I'll end my turn." A dead body rose from the ground and wielding a curved, double-edged sword and a piece of parchment covered his face.
Rebecca's turn-
"Now you'll lose one quarter of your life points in one turn!" Rebecca said drawing her card. "I play Cannon Soldier (1400/1300) in attack mode and I'll play Scapegoat!" As the mechanical soldier with a mounted cannon appeared, so did four different colored sheep. "I'll first sacrifice each sheep token to deal a total of 2000 damage!" As each sheep's energy was drained from its body and given to Cannon Soldier, it fired four blasts of energy directly at Ryan four times. "But I'm not done! I also play Rush Recklessly making my Cannon Soldier a 2100/1300 for one turn. Now Cannon Soldier! Attack his Master Kyonshee!" The cannon soldier charged its cannon and fired another blast destroying Ryan's Master Kyonshee completely. "Whee! That'll end my turn!"
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 8000
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card and said, "I play Thunder Nyan Nyan (1900/800) in attack mode and I'll attack your Cannon Soldier. Thunder Nyan Nyan! Thunder Shockwave!" The drummer woman slammed her drumsticks on the drums creating a visible wave of sound with electricity hitting Cannon Soldier, shattering it like glass. "I'll end my turn."
"Oh No! My precious Cannon Soldier!" Rebecca said as she saw her monster fall and her life points drop.
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 7500
Rebecca's turn-
Rebecca drew her card and said, "Look what card we drew Teddy! I play Monster Reborn reviving my Cannon Soldier, and I'll sacrifice it to bring out Millennium Shield (0/3000)," as the Cannon Soldier appeared on the field, it vanished once more and an enormous shield of red on the inside and solid gold on the outside with the millennium symbol in the center. "But that's not all, I'll equip it with Horn of Light increasing its defense even further to 3800!" Right above the millennium symbol an illuminating horn appeared. "And I'll end my turn!"
Ryan's turn-
"I'll draw and I'll play Sapphire Dragon (1900/1600) in attack mode ending my turn," Ryan said as the sapphire blue dragon appeared.
Rebecca's turn-
Rebecca drew her card and said, "I play Ring of Magnetism lowering my Millennium Shield's defense to 3300, but it's worth it, and I also play one card face down in defense mode ending my turn."
Ryan's turn-
"I'm well aware what Ring of Magnetism does," Ryan said drawing his card. "I also know what you're going to do, you're trying to bring out your Shadow Ghoul with a great amount of power like last time. But unlike you, I improved my deck, and here's one of my new cards, I'll sacrifice Thunder Nyan Nyan to bring out Blowback Dragon (2300/1200)."
A machine dragon, resembling Barrel Dragon appeared, but this dragon only had one cannon, mounted on its head. As it appeared, Ryan pulled out a quarter. "I'm using his effect I flip a coin three times, if I get 2 out of 3 heads, it can destroy one card on the field. Including magic or trap cards."
Ryan then flipped the coin three times and they landed on heads, tails, and... heads. Then Blowback Dragon charged its cannon. "I'll have him attack your Millennium Shield. Attack!" The dragon fired a blue blast of energy, shattering the shield to shards.
"No!! My impenetrable shield!" Rebecca cried. "My strategy gone down the drain!"
"That strategy was biding your time only to discard your monster cards," Ryan said. "Now I'll damage you some more by hitting you with my Sapphire Dragon, Attack!" Luster Dragon breathed out a river of blue flames frying Rebecca's face down card and leaving her open for an attack. "Now Blowback Dragon, attack her directly." The mechanical dragon fired a blast of energy directly at Rebecca.
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 5200
Rebecca's turn-
Rebecca began to panic as she drew her card, "I play another card facedown in defense mode."
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card and said, "Rebecca, I'll be blunt. I'm pretty sure I can wipe out the rest of your life points in this turn."
"What?" she said. "There's no way will you win. I'm a child prodigy and this duel end once I..."
"Seriously," Ryan interrupted. "This duel will probably end in once I use Blowback Dragon's effect.
"Fine use your stupid theory," Rebecca said.
"Okay," Ryan sighed. "I play Mechanical Chaser (1850/800)," then he pulled out his quarter again and flipped it and the first two results were heads, and Blowback Dragon fired another charged blast destroying it. "Now I'll attack you with all three of my monsters, dealing 6050 direct damage.
Ryan: 5650
Rebecca: 0
"Oh no!" Rebecca cried at her defeat then as her platform dropped and she ran away not giving her star chips.
Ryan only shrugged, knowing she'd get caught because she bet all her star chips and lost so security would be after her. But he didn't seem to care, he stayed on the plateau knowing he could get some more.
~Meanwhile back where Yugi, Joey and Michael were...~
Everyone had finished eating and they were in talk over Ryan.
"So Ryan's a ruthless duelist without a care for anyone?" asked Joey.
"Yeah," Michael said. "You should've seen his other tournaments."
"He's really someone we should watch out for," Yugi said.
"Well, it's 3:00 PM right now how about we catch in some duels?" asked Michael.
"Sure," said Yugi standing up.
"Why not?" Joey asked getting up and stretching.
The three of them watched some intense and not-so-intense duels and pretty soon, the sun was beginning to set.
~Salazar's Castle, 5:43 PM~
"This is it my eliminators," Salazar said to five men, one had already left. "As the sun drops, you shall weed out the weaker duelists. I do not tolerate failure, Mr. Underwood is an example of that. You were all given 10 star chips, I expect you to come back with both dueling gloves full to a total of sixty. It will be a long night for you all, show no mercy and never let your guard down for a second. Now go to your designated spots, the sun sets completely in a half hour."
The eliminators nodded in agreement and went off to their areas of duelist kingdom, but Salazar stopped one of them.
"Wait you," Salazar said to him. "I have a special mission for you, you're going to wait by the docks."
The eliminator knew what he was talking about and began laughing and set out towards the docks.
~Duelist Kingdom Forest, 6:10~
"So should we sleep here tonight?" asked Michael leaning against a tree.
"We did that last time," Yugi said.
"Yeah, hardly got any sleep though," Joey said. "Besides, it's a bit early."
"I guess we'll make due," Michael said. "Say Joey, how about a quick duel, for fun?"
"Okay sure," Joey said, taking out his deck.
Suddenly, the sun had disappeared awfully fast and the night sky and the full moon were all that showed already.
"That was freaky," said Joey.
"That can't be good," Yugi said as he looked to where the sun once was.
"Maybe we should duel another time," Michael said.
~30 miles northwest of Duelist Kingdom~
"I maybe late," Kaiba said to himself, flying a Kaiba Corp helicopter. "But I'm sure I could have won enough star chips in an hour or so. But Salazar will pay for what he's done to my company."
After a few more minutes of flying, Kaiba noticed how fast the sun had set but he could see Duelist Kingdom already and he saw the docks. He landed the helicopter in the center and got out, taking his Duel Disk with him.
As he walked to leave the docks, a dark figure in a robe was standing in his way.
"You're Seto Kaiba I presume," he said.
"What of it?" Kaiba said.
"I'm here to welcome you to Duelist Kingdom again," the man said. "And to take you out of the duel right here and now."
"Get lost," Kaiba said. "I'm not dueling any of Salazar's goons, he'll have to duel me face to face."
"I'm so sorry you feel that way," the man said pulling out a remote from the dark robe he wore and pressed a red button on it, and Kaiba's helicopter exploded greatly and the man was left cackling...