"Oh?" Ryan asked with disbelief. "Let's see it."
"Here it comes," Michael said. "I'll play Blade Knight (1600/1000) in attack mode. And from his effect, if have one or fewer cards in my hand, his attack will rise to 2000." On Michael's side of the field appeared a knight in silver armor wielding a curved broadsword aimed directly at Ryan. "Now Blade Knight, attack Ryan's life points directly with Silver Blade Slash!"
As the silver-armored knight leaped towards Ryan to slash him down, Ryan flipped his face down card.
"I activate Mystical Space Typhoon, destroying Different Dimension Gate!" Ryan said as a powerful force of wind came, ripping the futuristic machine to scrap metal releasing Nin-Ken Dog (1800/1000) and Kaiser Glider (2400/2200) and back to the field.
Nin-Ken Dog jumped up to defend Ryan but was slashed down and sent to the graveyard.
"Very clever," Michael said. "But you forget Kaiser Glider is still under the effect of Change of Heart so he's still on my side of the field and you are open for a direct attack. Attack Kaiser Glider, Hyper Wing Attack!"
The controlled armored dragon flew passed Ryan and came back doing a loop and colliding right into him doing a barrel spin with his wings.
"Damn it," Ryan said as his life points fell to less than 1000.
"I'm not finished," Michael said. "I'll play The Shallow Grave. Now we each take a monster card from our graveyard and place it on the field face down in defense mode."
Michael and Ryan each pulled out their monster cards in the graveyard slot on their Duel Disks, picked one monster and placed it face down on the field.
"That'll end my turn," Michael said smugly.
"Ouch," Joey remarked. "That had to hurt."
"Yeah, Ryan just lost a lot of life points," Yugi said. "One more attack like that and Ryan might not be able to recover."
Ryan: 900
Michael: 3650
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card and thought for about a minute before making a move, "I play Makyura the Destructor (1600/1200) in attack mode and I'll have him attack your face down card, Phantom Claw!"
The dark warrior rose up his two triple-bladed claws and ran swiftly towards the face down card. The card flipped face up revealing Michael's Morphing Jar again. Makyura slashed the one-eyed being that dwelled in the jar and was sent back to the graveyard.
"Once again we shall discard our hands and draw five cards in our hands." Michael said adding five cards to his once-empty hand.
"Well there's one downside to Morphing Jar's effect," Ryan said as he sent his only card to the graveyard and drew five more cards.
"And what would that be?" Michael asked skeptically.
"You have five cards in your hand," Ryan said. "That sends your Blade Knight back to 1600 attack power."
"Oh crap," Michael said. "Forgot about that."
"First, I'll play two cards face down. And now, Kaiser Glider, attack Blade Knight, Hyper Wing Attack!" Ryan proclaimed and his dragon shattered the silver-armored knight with a barrel spin, then Ryan flipped over one of his face down cards. "I activate the quickplay magic card, Sebek's Blessing. I can only activate it when I deal Battle Damage to you. And I gain life points equal to what you lost."
"That would make him at 1700 life points," Yugi said.
"That's not bad," Joey commented. "Maybe Ryan's still in this."
"Your turn," Ryan said.
Ryan: 1700
Michael: 2850
Michael's turn-
"You're beginning to annoy me," Michael said drawing his card. "I'll summon Different Dimension Dragon (1200/1500) in attack mode."
Suddenly, a reflective sphere appeared in the center of the field and grew in size. When it stopped growing around fifteen feet in diameter, it opened up releasing a green, four-winged dragon with a long tail. It flew towards Michael and defended him, letting out a roar towards Ryan.
"Another Dimension card," Yugi said to himself. "Obviously they're Michael's favorite cards to use."
"And I'll equip my dragon with Mage Power and United We Stand, altogether increasing his attack power to 3000." Michael said as his monster had began glowing red from Mage Power, and gold from United We Stand, demonstrating its increased power.
"Different Dimension Dragon destroy Makyura the Destructor, Dimensional Cannon!" Michael shouted with what seemed to be, triumph.
The green dragon opened its mouth gathering gold and red bits of energy around his mouth. It formed a sphere of red and gold moving around all about. It grew as big as an average-sized wrecking ball until it finally stopped. The dragon then fired the sphere and changed from a large sphere to a big blast of energy shaped like thick javelin.
As it was about to hit Makyura, Ryan flipped his other face down card.
"Go Waboku!" Ryan shouted as several robed priestesses appeared chanting a prayer saving Makyura's life.
Michael growled at his monster's nullified attack, "I'll play one card face down and end my turn then."
Ryan's turn-
Ryan was about to draw his card but he first said to Michael, "Laskow, I gotta know. Why would the World Champion risk losing his title doing something like this?"
Michael was silent and refused to answer Ryan's question.
"Tell me," Ryan said. "Why would you do something like this?"
Michael still remained silent, but then said, "You're wasting time. We only have 15 minutes left. Hurry up so I can win."
"I'm not drawing my card until you talk," Ryan said folding his arms.
Ryan and Michael stared off at each other waiting for someone to say or do something.
One minute had passed and their faces never changed.
At the second minute, they remained the same, but Joey broke the silence.
"Come on this is a duel!" he shouted. "Ryan make your move!"
"Sorry, but I need to know why this excuse of a champion would stoop so low," Ryan told Joey.
At the fourth minute, Michael began getting nervous and worrying.
But at the fifth minute, he snapped.
"Okay!" he shouted. "You want to know what happened? You should know, you were asked too."
Yugi and his friends were confused by what Michael said.
"'Asked?'" Yugi questioned.
"Yeah that's right," Michael said. "Salazar asked both of us to enter his tournament as eliminators to defeat Yugi for a lot of money."
Yugi and the others either gasped or widened when they heard this.
"Well, Stone didn't want to duel like that but to me money is money," Michael said to everyone else. "Salazar said he'd give me a bunch of good cards. Cards that no one could comprehend or defeat. He never did give them. But one of my jobs was to trick Yugi into being his friend and secretly dueled as the eliminator Nightmare to steal his Millennium Puzzle. However I was defeated by Muto and I am now waiting for what's to become of me. Now will you start your turn already? There's only about ten minutes until the finals are over."
"Sure," Ryan said as he finally drew his card. "I'll offer Makyura the Destructor to bring out Blowback Dragon (2300/1200)."
As the dark warrior faded from the field, a mechanical dragon with a large gun barrel rested on its head.
"First from Makyura's effect, I can play a trap card from my hand," Ryan said slipping a card into an empty Magic/Trap slot. "I play Dust Tornado destroying your face down card."
As the card appeared on the field, a gray tornado appeared and arrived to the face down card, sucking it in. Then the tornado shot the card out of itself and off into the card graveyard.
"Crap," Michael said placing his trap into the graveyard slot. "My Jar of Greed."
"But that isn't all," Ryan said pulling out his quarter. "I'm using my dragon's effect. If I flip a coin and it lands on heads two out of three times, it can destroy a card on your side of the field."
Ryan then flipped the quarter and it flew high in the air. When it landed in his hand, the first result was heads.
"One down, one to go," Ryan said and his mechanical claws on his feet latched on the ground gripping tightly. Then the machine monster leaned forward extending its tail out perfectly straight and its front claws latched onto the ground as well. The dragon then raised up its head pointing the gun barrel directly towards Michael.
Ryan flipped his quarter a second time and like before it landed in his palm. But it landed on tails.
"Well I still have one more chance," Ryan said flipping his coin again.
As the coin flew up and landed in his closed palm. He opened up his palm to look at the coin, revealing to be another tails.
"Damn," Ryan said to his failed attack.
Since the attack was a dud, Blowback Dragon reverted to its original form and roared at Michael.
"Well," Michael said. "Looks like your luck ran out."
"Yeah, yeah," Ryan said. "I'll end my turn playing one card face down ending my turn."
Michael's turn-
"I never thought of you playing a combo that didn't damage someone's life points," Michael said drawing his card. "Well I'll play one card face down in defense mode and I'll have Different Dimension Dragon attack your Blowback Dragon. Dimensional Cannon!"
Michael's four-winged dragon flew up and gathered gold energy from United We Stand and red energy from Mage Power and fired another devastating attack wiping out Ryan's machine monster leaving behind shards of metal.
"I'll also play one card face down," Michael said placing the card in an empty slot. "Your turn."
"That dragon Michael's got is really annoying," Joey said looking off it at glowing red and gold.
"You don't know the half of it," Yugi said to Joey. "Different Dimension Dragon can't be destroyed by magic and trap cards that target more than one monster like Raigeki, Mirror Force or Dark Hole. We'll see if Ryan can do anything now."
Ryan: 1000
Michael: 2850
Ryan's turn-
"Well I hope you enjoyed this duel," Ryan said looking at the card he drew. "I'll play one card face down ending my turn."
"Does Ryan mean he has a card that can win the duel for him?" Joey asked Yugi.
"Please," Kaiba answered Joey. "He's bluffing. That Dragon is practically unstoppable to the strongest of magic and trap cards. What card could he possess?"
"I think I know," Yugi said really sure. "And it could win the duel for Ryan."
Joey was puzzled by what card it could be and looked on at the rivals duel.
Michael's turn-
Right when Michael drew his card, Ryan flipped his face down card.
"I activate Last Turn," Ryan said and he sent all his cards in his hand and field except Kaiser Glider. "Are you familiar with this card? I think it works especially well on your Dimension deck. So wipe your field clean and bring out your strongest monster."
Michael was worried now. He sent his entire hand and cards on the field to the graveyard.
"I bring out my D.D. Warrior Lady (1500/1600)," Michael sighed. "And since last turn was activated, I have to have her attack. Go D.D. Warrior Lady, attack Kaiser Glider."
The Female dimensional warrior charged at the dragon and slashed at the Dragon's neck.
Kaiser Glider was too fast and easily dodged the attack by flying above the attack.
D.D. Warrior Lady landed back onto the ground but turned around to face the dragon.
Kaiser Glider did a tailspin towards the ground the flew directly towards the female warrior.
D.D. Warrior Lady raised up her blade to strike Kaiser Glider down but it was too late. Kaiser Glider had done its spinning attack, knocking the D.D. Warrior Lady's blade out of her hand and sending her high into the sky only to be brought down to the ground. She then faded from the field and into the graveyard.
"I won," Ryan said as his Kaiser Glider roared in triumph at Michael.
The duel had ended. Kaiser Glider vanished from the field.
Michael sighed deeply and he cringed his teeth in defeat and anger.
"Take your star chips," Michael said taking out five of his star chips on his dueling glove and threw them at Ryan.
Michael stormed through Yugi and Joey and walked down the stone stairs and to the docks.
Yugi, Joey and Mai gathered around Ryan to congratulate him.
"Nice card," Joey said.
"Great strategy," Mai said.
"You sure showed Michael," Yugi said. "You beat him with about five minutes to spare.
"I only used that card because Michael used a card for a one-turn win," Ryan said putting in his star chips. "I was just returning the favor. Next time we duel someone's life points will be lost."
Ryan then walked passed the three duelists and towards the large metal gates of the castle.
"What's his problem?" Joey asked.
"He's probably used to be alone," Mai said. "I kind of understand how he feels."
"He'll be a worthy opponent to duel," Kaiba said. "He'll give me a challenge."
Then, the metal doors opened up for Ryan and he walked through and the doors closed with a loud clang as they closed against each other.
"Well let's get in," Yugi said and the four finalists walked to the metal doors.
The metal doors were even bigger up close. They were probably about six inches thick of solid steel. Off to the side of the doors was a numerical panel with several other devices.
Yugi walked up to the panel and a slot opened up with fifteen star-shaped holes carved into the slot.
"I guess you put the star chips in here," Yugi said placing in his fifteen star chips and immediately as Yugi placed the last of his star chips in, the slot closed in.
A few seconds later, the large metal doors opened up.
Just as Yugi walked through the door, it closed as immediately as he was through the doorway.
"What the?" Yugi looked behind him seeing his friends didn't have a chance to get through.
Yugi banged on the metal doors to try and open them but to no avail.
A few seconds after Yugi started banging on the doors, they opened up again and Kaiba walked through. As soon as Kaiba was through the doorway, it closed again.
"Kaiba?" Yugi asked him. "What happened?"
"Apparently Salazar's made his security extra tight," Kaiba told him. "So only one duelist can get through the door at a time.
A few seconds passed and Mai walked through. After Mai soon came Joey.
"Well I guess everyone's here," Yugi said.
"Look how many finalists there are," Kaiba looked over at the corridor where many duelists were conversing with one another. "Too many."
Kaiba stayed away from the crowd while Yugi, Joey and Mai walked down the corridor to see who the other duelists were...
"Here it comes," Michael said. "I'll play Blade Knight (1600/1000) in attack mode. And from his effect, if have one or fewer cards in my hand, his attack will rise to 2000." On Michael's side of the field appeared a knight in silver armor wielding a curved broadsword aimed directly at Ryan. "Now Blade Knight, attack Ryan's life points directly with Silver Blade Slash!"
As the silver-armored knight leaped towards Ryan to slash him down, Ryan flipped his face down card.
"I activate Mystical Space Typhoon, destroying Different Dimension Gate!" Ryan said as a powerful force of wind came, ripping the futuristic machine to scrap metal releasing Nin-Ken Dog (1800/1000) and Kaiser Glider (2400/2200) and back to the field.
Nin-Ken Dog jumped up to defend Ryan but was slashed down and sent to the graveyard.
"Very clever," Michael said. "But you forget Kaiser Glider is still under the effect of Change of Heart so he's still on my side of the field and you are open for a direct attack. Attack Kaiser Glider, Hyper Wing Attack!"
The controlled armored dragon flew passed Ryan and came back doing a loop and colliding right into him doing a barrel spin with his wings.
"Damn it," Ryan said as his life points fell to less than 1000.
"I'm not finished," Michael said. "I'll play The Shallow Grave. Now we each take a monster card from our graveyard and place it on the field face down in defense mode."
Michael and Ryan each pulled out their monster cards in the graveyard slot on their Duel Disks, picked one monster and placed it face down on the field.
"That'll end my turn," Michael said smugly.
"Ouch," Joey remarked. "That had to hurt."
"Yeah, Ryan just lost a lot of life points," Yugi said. "One more attack like that and Ryan might not be able to recover."
Ryan: 900
Michael: 3650
Ryan's turn-
Ryan drew his card and thought for about a minute before making a move, "I play Makyura the Destructor (1600/1200) in attack mode and I'll have him attack your face down card, Phantom Claw!"
The dark warrior rose up his two triple-bladed claws and ran swiftly towards the face down card. The card flipped face up revealing Michael's Morphing Jar again. Makyura slashed the one-eyed being that dwelled in the jar and was sent back to the graveyard.
"Once again we shall discard our hands and draw five cards in our hands." Michael said adding five cards to his once-empty hand.
"Well there's one downside to Morphing Jar's effect," Ryan said as he sent his only card to the graveyard and drew five more cards.
"And what would that be?" Michael asked skeptically.
"You have five cards in your hand," Ryan said. "That sends your Blade Knight back to 1600 attack power."
"Oh crap," Michael said. "Forgot about that."
"First, I'll play two cards face down. And now, Kaiser Glider, attack Blade Knight, Hyper Wing Attack!" Ryan proclaimed and his dragon shattered the silver-armored knight with a barrel spin, then Ryan flipped over one of his face down cards. "I activate the quickplay magic card, Sebek's Blessing. I can only activate it when I deal Battle Damage to you. And I gain life points equal to what you lost."
"That would make him at 1700 life points," Yugi said.
"That's not bad," Joey commented. "Maybe Ryan's still in this."
"Your turn," Ryan said.
Ryan: 1700
Michael: 2850
Michael's turn-
"You're beginning to annoy me," Michael said drawing his card. "I'll summon Different Dimension Dragon (1200/1500) in attack mode."
Suddenly, a reflective sphere appeared in the center of the field and grew in size. When it stopped growing around fifteen feet in diameter, it opened up releasing a green, four-winged dragon with a long tail. It flew towards Michael and defended him, letting out a roar towards Ryan.
"Another Dimension card," Yugi said to himself. "Obviously they're Michael's favorite cards to use."
"And I'll equip my dragon with Mage Power and United We Stand, altogether increasing his attack power to 3000." Michael said as his monster had began glowing red from Mage Power, and gold from United We Stand, demonstrating its increased power.
"Different Dimension Dragon destroy Makyura the Destructor, Dimensional Cannon!" Michael shouted with what seemed to be, triumph.
The green dragon opened its mouth gathering gold and red bits of energy around his mouth. It formed a sphere of red and gold moving around all about. It grew as big as an average-sized wrecking ball until it finally stopped. The dragon then fired the sphere and changed from a large sphere to a big blast of energy shaped like thick javelin.
As it was about to hit Makyura, Ryan flipped his other face down card.
"Go Waboku!" Ryan shouted as several robed priestesses appeared chanting a prayer saving Makyura's life.
Michael growled at his monster's nullified attack, "I'll play one card face down and end my turn then."
Ryan's turn-
Ryan was about to draw his card but he first said to Michael, "Laskow, I gotta know. Why would the World Champion risk losing his title doing something like this?"
Michael was silent and refused to answer Ryan's question.
"Tell me," Ryan said. "Why would you do something like this?"
Michael still remained silent, but then said, "You're wasting time. We only have 15 minutes left. Hurry up so I can win."
"I'm not drawing my card until you talk," Ryan said folding his arms.
Ryan and Michael stared off at each other waiting for someone to say or do something.
One minute had passed and their faces never changed.
At the second minute, they remained the same, but Joey broke the silence.
"Come on this is a duel!" he shouted. "Ryan make your move!"
"Sorry, but I need to know why this excuse of a champion would stoop so low," Ryan told Joey.
At the fourth minute, Michael began getting nervous and worrying.
But at the fifth minute, he snapped.
"Okay!" he shouted. "You want to know what happened? You should know, you were asked too."
Yugi and his friends were confused by what Michael said.
"'Asked?'" Yugi questioned.
"Yeah that's right," Michael said. "Salazar asked both of us to enter his tournament as eliminators to defeat Yugi for a lot of money."
Yugi and the others either gasped or widened when they heard this.
"Well, Stone didn't want to duel like that but to me money is money," Michael said to everyone else. "Salazar said he'd give me a bunch of good cards. Cards that no one could comprehend or defeat. He never did give them. But one of my jobs was to trick Yugi into being his friend and secretly dueled as the eliminator Nightmare to steal his Millennium Puzzle. However I was defeated by Muto and I am now waiting for what's to become of me. Now will you start your turn already? There's only about ten minutes until the finals are over."
"Sure," Ryan said as he finally drew his card. "I'll offer Makyura the Destructor to bring out Blowback Dragon (2300/1200)."
As the dark warrior faded from the field, a mechanical dragon with a large gun barrel rested on its head.
"First from Makyura's effect, I can play a trap card from my hand," Ryan said slipping a card into an empty Magic/Trap slot. "I play Dust Tornado destroying your face down card."
As the card appeared on the field, a gray tornado appeared and arrived to the face down card, sucking it in. Then the tornado shot the card out of itself and off into the card graveyard.
"Crap," Michael said placing his trap into the graveyard slot. "My Jar of Greed."
"But that isn't all," Ryan said pulling out his quarter. "I'm using my dragon's effect. If I flip a coin and it lands on heads two out of three times, it can destroy a card on your side of the field."
Ryan then flipped the quarter and it flew high in the air. When it landed in his hand, the first result was heads.
"One down, one to go," Ryan said and his mechanical claws on his feet latched on the ground gripping tightly. Then the machine monster leaned forward extending its tail out perfectly straight and its front claws latched onto the ground as well. The dragon then raised up its head pointing the gun barrel directly towards Michael.
Ryan flipped his quarter a second time and like before it landed in his palm. But it landed on tails.
"Well I still have one more chance," Ryan said flipping his coin again.
As the coin flew up and landed in his closed palm. He opened up his palm to look at the coin, revealing to be another tails.
"Damn," Ryan said to his failed attack.
Since the attack was a dud, Blowback Dragon reverted to its original form and roared at Michael.
"Well," Michael said. "Looks like your luck ran out."
"Yeah, yeah," Ryan said. "I'll end my turn playing one card face down ending my turn."
Michael's turn-
"I never thought of you playing a combo that didn't damage someone's life points," Michael said drawing his card. "Well I'll play one card face down in defense mode and I'll have Different Dimension Dragon attack your Blowback Dragon. Dimensional Cannon!"
Michael's four-winged dragon flew up and gathered gold energy from United We Stand and red energy from Mage Power and fired another devastating attack wiping out Ryan's machine monster leaving behind shards of metal.
"I'll also play one card face down," Michael said placing the card in an empty slot. "Your turn."
"That dragon Michael's got is really annoying," Joey said looking off it at glowing red and gold.
"You don't know the half of it," Yugi said to Joey. "Different Dimension Dragon can't be destroyed by magic and trap cards that target more than one monster like Raigeki, Mirror Force or Dark Hole. We'll see if Ryan can do anything now."
Ryan: 1000
Michael: 2850
Ryan's turn-
"Well I hope you enjoyed this duel," Ryan said looking at the card he drew. "I'll play one card face down ending my turn."
"Does Ryan mean he has a card that can win the duel for him?" Joey asked Yugi.
"Please," Kaiba answered Joey. "He's bluffing. That Dragon is practically unstoppable to the strongest of magic and trap cards. What card could he possess?"
"I think I know," Yugi said really sure. "And it could win the duel for Ryan."
Joey was puzzled by what card it could be and looked on at the rivals duel.
Michael's turn-
Right when Michael drew his card, Ryan flipped his face down card.
"I activate Last Turn," Ryan said and he sent all his cards in his hand and field except Kaiser Glider. "Are you familiar with this card? I think it works especially well on your Dimension deck. So wipe your field clean and bring out your strongest monster."
Michael was worried now. He sent his entire hand and cards on the field to the graveyard.
"I bring out my D.D. Warrior Lady (1500/1600)," Michael sighed. "And since last turn was activated, I have to have her attack. Go D.D. Warrior Lady, attack Kaiser Glider."
The Female dimensional warrior charged at the dragon and slashed at the Dragon's neck.
Kaiser Glider was too fast and easily dodged the attack by flying above the attack.
D.D. Warrior Lady landed back onto the ground but turned around to face the dragon.
Kaiser Glider did a tailspin towards the ground the flew directly towards the female warrior.
D.D. Warrior Lady raised up her blade to strike Kaiser Glider down but it was too late. Kaiser Glider had done its spinning attack, knocking the D.D. Warrior Lady's blade out of her hand and sending her high into the sky only to be brought down to the ground. She then faded from the field and into the graveyard.
"I won," Ryan said as his Kaiser Glider roared in triumph at Michael.
The duel had ended. Kaiser Glider vanished from the field.
Michael sighed deeply and he cringed his teeth in defeat and anger.
"Take your star chips," Michael said taking out five of his star chips on his dueling glove and threw them at Ryan.
Michael stormed through Yugi and Joey and walked down the stone stairs and to the docks.
Yugi, Joey and Mai gathered around Ryan to congratulate him.
"Nice card," Joey said.
"Great strategy," Mai said.
"You sure showed Michael," Yugi said. "You beat him with about five minutes to spare.
"I only used that card because Michael used a card for a one-turn win," Ryan said putting in his star chips. "I was just returning the favor. Next time we duel someone's life points will be lost."
Ryan then walked passed the three duelists and towards the large metal gates of the castle.
"What's his problem?" Joey asked.
"He's probably used to be alone," Mai said. "I kind of understand how he feels."
"He'll be a worthy opponent to duel," Kaiba said. "He'll give me a challenge."
Then, the metal doors opened up for Ryan and he walked through and the doors closed with a loud clang as they closed against each other.
"Well let's get in," Yugi said and the four finalists walked to the metal doors.
The metal doors were even bigger up close. They were probably about six inches thick of solid steel. Off to the side of the doors was a numerical panel with several other devices.
Yugi walked up to the panel and a slot opened up with fifteen star-shaped holes carved into the slot.
"I guess you put the star chips in here," Yugi said placing in his fifteen star chips and immediately as Yugi placed the last of his star chips in, the slot closed in.
A few seconds later, the large metal doors opened up.
Just as Yugi walked through the door, it closed as immediately as he was through the doorway.
"What the?" Yugi looked behind him seeing his friends didn't have a chance to get through.
Yugi banged on the metal doors to try and open them but to no avail.
A few seconds after Yugi started banging on the doors, they opened up again and Kaiba walked through. As soon as Kaiba was through the doorway, it closed again.
"Kaiba?" Yugi asked him. "What happened?"
"Apparently Salazar's made his security extra tight," Kaiba told him. "So only one duelist can get through the door at a time.
A few seconds passed and Mai walked through. After Mai soon came Joey.
"Well I guess everyone's here," Yugi said.
"Look how many finalists there are," Kaiba looked over at the corridor where many duelists were conversing with one another. "Too many."
Kaiba stayed away from the crowd while Yugi, Joey and Mai walked down the corridor to see who the other duelists were...