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Imagine a place, parallel to a dimension.
The sort of place you might find a weird mirror or a spooky door.
My friend, you have just entered...
The stoner's realm...
(Intro scenes)
(Explosions!)
(Duels)
(A cook juggling with two knives)
(The Winged Dragon Of Ra, and Slyther the sky dragon flying together towards a boat.)
(Kaiba pointing at Obelisk the Tormentor in amazement)
(Big Explosion)
YUGIOH,
ENTER THE STONER'S REALM
(The next day, somewhere in the forest)
Mokuba and Yugi stepped into the clearing, leaning up against a duellist-kingdom style duel arena, was a French mime, in a black and white striped jumper, white gloves, black trousers, white makeup and a black beret. The mime opened its mouth to speak.
"You are Kaiba's brother correct?"
He had a flawless English accent;
"I am John, like the duelling arena? I found it ten minutes after we arrived on the island, I've already won 2 duels here."
"Well you won't win another, I challenge you to a duel!"
"Hah, okay, but since you challenged me, I go first."
John rode the lift up the side of the arena and assumed his podium.
"Come on Japanese boy, give it your best shot."
Mokuba quickly took the lift up the red side.
"Yugi, no help during the duel remember!"
Mokuba shouted, they'd spent the last day training, and though they'd now missed duelling most of the newbies, Yugi had thought it was worth it.
Mokuba's got a good deck, and some powerful strategies, hopefully he'll be able to knock this guy out of the main tournament.
Each duellist strapped on their gasmasks and put their deck on the designated zone.
"Ok, I will first of all, lay one monster and two trap cards face down."
Shouted the Frenchman.
"End Turn."
Mokuba drew
"I summon Avatar of the Pot and sacrifice pot of greed to draw 3 cards, and then I place one card face down on the field, your turn."
The Frenchman drew, then burst out laughing;
"Well my friend you have the misfortune to be facing one of my most powerful combos, there is very little chance that you can win once the ball gets rolling, and the two cards I placed earlier will stop anything that hopes to oppose me."
John held a card up in the air.
"I summon Maji-Gire Panda to the field!"
He slammed the card down onto the field. And a giant panda crawled out of its card sleepily and sat up, then batted its ear comicallly;
Maji-Gire Panda:
Attk; 1000
Def; 1000
Mokuba looked on in amusement; "That creature only has 1000 attack points, my monster has 200 more attack points than it!"
"But that's not all I flip Rescue Cat into attack mode then activate its special effect!"
The Cat dived into his duel disc and pulled out two cards, laying them out on the field, as the hologrammatic projectors summoned the new creatures to the field it dived into John's graveyard.
The two cards shimmered into being, out of one stepped a hyena, a smile on its doglike face, from the other stepped a mouse with a black Mohawk hair style on top of its head.
"Now my Hyena attack his monster!"
Mokuba set a determined scowl as the hyena leapt towards his Avatar of the pot, to his amazement the avatar dodged the hyena's furious attack and punched it in the face, the hyena exploded in a cloud of coloured shards.
John: 7800
Mokuba: 8000
Mokuba laughed; "Ha, is that all you can throw at me?"
The older man smiled; "Boy I ain't even started."
Another Hyena materialized on the field.
"What?"
Yugi and Mokuba both exclaimed at the same time.
"I've spent years developing this strategy, there's no way you can defeat it, every time a hyena monster is destroyed in battle another one comes to avenge it. Now attack his pot avatar my monster."
Again the hyena leapt towards Mokuba's genie, which sidestepped and casually backhanded the creature across the face.
John: 7600
Mokuba: 8000
"Why are you doing this, you're just wasting monsters!" Shouted Mokuba.
At this point Yugi noticed the other duellist's panda, now not so sleepy or funny anymore, sitting seething with rage, rocking back and forth on its haunches.
"I'm sure he has his reasons."
John smiled seeing the realization dawn on the rich-kid's friend as he sent his third and final hyena to be destroyed
Mokuba grinned cockily; "Oh I get it, you've realised you can't win so you might as well sacrifice your monsters so as to look like you're giving the little kid a chance, but it looks like you've run out of hyenas to send at me, so anytime you wwant to end your turn will be fine by me."
"Little boy, I don't know who else you've faced but I don't hold back on anyone, I've got no illusions when it comes to your duelling skill and certainly none where it comes to mine and you will not be able to defeat me, now Chu-Ske the Mouse Fighter, suicide attack his avatar of the pot!"
The mouse boxer dived towards Mokuba's spirit and punched it square in the pot. The pot chattered with the force of the punch and the spirit started shrinking to the void where it used to be, just before it's arm withered out of existence, it grabbed onto the mouse, dragging it to the graveyard with it.
"Well that's just peachy, looks like you've got no monsters on your side of the field, now my panda can directly attack your life points."
Mokuba smiled; "Even so its attack is only 1000, you almost took that much off your own lifepoints, once I take my next turn I'll wipe it out and take out most of your life points in one volley."
Mokuba played with his Gradius and Option's cards, 4 monsters in one turn, each with over a thousand attack points would reduce the stranger's life points substantially next turn. If only I had my limiter removal in my hand, with that I'd have 3 options with 4 times the strength that they'll be when I summon them, ah well I should trust in the heart of the cards.
Yugi cringed, if only Mokuba would remember what I just taught him, and he'll get mad if I try and remind him now, he said that when he was duelling he wanted no help, that he wouldn't be allowed any in the finals, so he needed to practice that way. If only Yami was here, he could get into his mind and remind him subtly. DAMN!
John smiled; "Kid, look at my panda now, did you really think I wasted my precious beasts? Every animal is important, and now let me introduce to you the ability of my Maji-Gire Panda, every time one of my beasts or beast warriors are destroyed, it gains 500 attack points, permanently. This far in the game every move is done for a reason lad, you may have got this far through luck and a few powerful cards, but in this game you need strategy and you have to realise that your opponent needs the same thing."
Mokuba looked at the panda, in his eyevisor the information popped up;
Maji-Gire Panda,
Current attack points; 3500,
Current defence points; 800
As he read the readout he couldn't believe he hadn't noticed it before, it had grown to over 3 times its original size.
"Now my black and white friend, attack his life points directly!"
The panda rolled to its feet, swaying a second it fixed its angry gaze at Mokuba and charged, as it slammed its houlder into him, Mokuba staggered back across the platform;
"Mokuba noooo!"
Yugi ran around the back of the duelling field as the younger duellist stepped over the edge into empty space. Mokuba fell back, then felt something stop his fall. The hose of the gasmask had extended to its full length and prevented his fall. Mokuba reached up and pulled himself back onto the podium, his eyes watering from the smoke.
John: 7400
Mokuba: 6500
"That's more powerful than my brother's blue eyes… If it keeps gaining power…… there's nothing I can do…"
He looked dejected…
Yugi was fed up; he had to say something;
"Mokuba, you can defeat it, remember what Rebecca gave you, just trust in your deck to give you the cards you need!"
John smiled and placed a spell card on the field;
"Oh and I activate Spell Absorption, your move."
Mokuba looked at his hand, all he had was his Gradius combo and a useless magic card.. wait… he looked closer… not entirely useless, he could use it to protect his gradius and defend his life points, suddenly Mokuba realised what Yugi was talking about; If only I get that card next… I might be able to pull off a victory.
He closed his eyes and reached towards his deck. For some reason in his mind he imagined seeing Rebecca standing right where his deck was, he slowly reached out and took hold of her hand, it felt roughly oblong and as thin as a piece of card, Mokuba quickly opened his eyes and stared out through his smoky gasmask, he quickly stopped himself from crushing the card and held it up to the rest of his hand; It was it! At that moment he could have hugged her. Even kissed her in joy.
"Haha, John, you'll never be able to get past my defences, I summon my powerful attack ship Gradius in defence mode. Next I launch my 3 Gradius's Option's, which each get the same power as my gradius, next I activate heart of clear water on gradius, preventing it from destruction, next I activate Ring of Magnetism."
As Mokuba placed the card on the field, he felt Rebecca's hand on his own for the smallest part of a second. And from that feeling on his hand, a new spark of determination rose up through his body. Rebecca, I'll face you in the semi-finals and prove to you that I'm smart by defeating you in a duel. Your card has saved me. Thank you.
"This means that Gradius can not be destroyed and you have to attack it. And while it's in defence mode I take no damage! Your move."
John: 8400
Mokuba: 6500
"True but now I have more life points than when we started this duel, and my panda can defeat any monster in your deck. But just to make sure, I summon black cat with white tail!"
A black cat stalked out of its card, sporting a white tail with a pink bow tied around it.
"You see, I have several cards which can provide your gradius of its defences or destroy it outright by not designating it by name, so instead of wasting cards trying to get around your combo, I'm going to power up my panda so that when I do get the cards I need, I can wipe out your life points in one attack. Black Cat with a white tail, attack his Gradius!"
The cat leapt towards Mokuba's fighter jet and scratched at its outer hull, within the blink of an eye, the force field protecting the craft fried the cat.
"And since my black Cat had the same attack as your gradius' defense, I lose no life points! Your move"
Maji-Gire Panda,
Attk: 4000
Def: 0800
Yugi started to fret, Mokuba had no monster powerful enough to take down the Panda directly and if he summoned a monster this turn he wouldn't be able to employ one of his man-eater bugs against it. He's surely doomed, all he can do is defend until John goes in for the final blow, those 2 face down cards of John's must be a row of defences for his panda. I don't like this, Mokuba just doesn't have the cards. If only he had a harpies feather duster or a giant trunade or some such card.
Mokuba felt a blue aura surround him, Am I going crazy? He looked at John and Yugi, Neither of them have reacted, maybe only I can see it, maybe its just a hallucination brought on by the weed. He looked across and saw that the aura was coming from the top card in his deck; even the black vortex was blue. He heard his brother's voice in his ear; Mokuba, use the power of the gods! This is my gift to you for the tournament, now prove me you deserve it and use it!
The aura faded, but the blue tinge on the card remained. Mokuba suddenly realised what his stoned subconscious was trying to tell him.
He drew the card. He was right, there was only one possible way he could do this if he'd learnt right from Seto, he needed to summon one more monster first;
"I summon Kuriboh in defence mode!"
What the hell's he doing? He's just filled his monster card zones with a monster that's useless on the field!
Both Yugi and John thought the same thing, unknown to each other, then Mokuba winked at Yugi and turned to John; "Your move."
"Huh, I summon another black cat with white tail. Then I activate the magic card pack revival, if I have 3 monsters with the same name in my graveyard, they are all summoned to the field, so say hello to my entire hyena pack, now black cat with white tail attack Mokuba's Gradius again. Then my hyenas, attack each other!"
Another cat went to fry itself on the grounded fighter's force-fields and the panda grew angrier. Then 2 of the hyenas jumped on the third and a cloud of dust grew up around the fighting cat/dogs. When the dust cleared, all 3 lay dead, blood spewing out of their throats, the dead monsters disappeared into hologrammatic shards.
Maji-Gire Panda,
Attk: 6000
Def: 0800
"Next turn kid, you're out. Your move, lets see if you can save yourself."
Mokuba drew and added his new card to the one already in his hand.
"I AM NOT A KID! And to prove it, I won't even let you have one more turn, you made a mistake pal, and that was underestimating a Kaiba…"
Yugi's eyes widened in shock, how Mokuba could defeat that monster, surely he hadn't forgotten about the Frenchman's 2 trap cards!
"Many people have stupidly considered me a chink in my brother's armour, a weakness in his impenetrability, but you are all wrong, I am just as strong as he is, and united we are even stronger. You have stupidly allowed me to summon 5 monsters to the field, this gives me 5 tributes…"
John cut in; "You stupid kid, having 5 monsters gives you no advantage, you can only summon one monster a turn, and there is none powerful enough to require 5 sacrifices! Next turn you'll lose, then I'll take one of your cards and go on to beat your brother in the finals!"
Mokuba fixed him with his harshest glare from behind the gasmask, John felt the gaze of a thousand generations of the boy's family behind that glare. "NEVER INTERUPT A KAIBA IN THE MIDDLE OF A RANT! For that without any further introduction I sacrifice my 3 Gradius' options to summon my brother's gift to me!"
John smirked, he'd been waiting for an attempt to destroy his panda, monster é monster, and activated a trap card.
"Not so fast kid."
He said as the hologrammatic shards of the 3 monsters swarmed together.
"My trap card torrential tribute will destroy your new monster and your Gradius and your stupid kuriboh leaving you open to attack from me next turn! And I sacrifice my purple kuriboh from my hand to stop my trap hurting my poor endangered panda!"
A wave of water crashed onto the field smashing into the colomn of light where the broken shards of Mokuba's machines were forming together, knocking it to the ground, the water level rose as the wave smashed over Mokuba's Gradius and Kuriboh, dragging them a little way before the water level rose over the top, filling up the duelling arena. All that could be seen was a panda hanging onto a purple furry life preserver.
"Nothing could have survived that kid, not even my panda if it hadn't had its kuriboh float."
Mokuba collapsed into giggles. "You think a measly tidal wave can destroy my brother's monster? You are sadly mistaken my friend, you over-estimate your duelling skill or underestimate what you're facing severely!" The water drained away exposing an enormous blue rocky figure, shielding a fighter jet and a, now drenched, furball.
"You face Obelisk the Tormentor! One of the 3 Egyptian god cards! Obelisk I sacrifice my other monsters to you! Charge your Soul Energy Max, then destroy that panda!"
The purple float evaporated into nothing as Obelisk picked up the bedraggled Kuriboh and the water-logged fighter jet in each hand, then crushed them and roared, as it grew and their souls filled up its body with new strength.
"One card does take 5 sacrifices to summon John, and that's obelisk at soul energy max!
The god's power rose to infinity.
It drew back a fist and sent a wave of energy at the panda, John's remaining face down card flew off the hologrammatic field, and smashed into the podium, the panda went flying into John, sending an enormous cloud of smoke into the air as John flew back off the podium into a tree, snapping the gasmask's hose. His entire side of the field exploded showering the grass with sparks.
Mokuba heard a scream as the tree fell down.
Mokuba: 6500
John !#?
He grabbed his deck, pulled his gasmask off and jumped off his podium and rushed towards the tree, ignoring his eyepiece as it recorded the win.
"I thought you'd sealed the cards!" Mokuba yelled at Yugi as they both ran to help John and the unlucky pedestrian.
(The other side of the tree line)
Joey watched in terror as the tree fell, everything seemed to slow down around him as it crashed down, breaking branches against the other elms that occupied the forest, he felt his legs go numb, his entire body was paralyzed, he could not move. He felt his heart beat against his ribcage as he took what he thought was going to be his final breath. He watched an enormous pointed branch fall towards him. Having seen his life flash before his eyes so many times before, Joey skipped through the boring bits and watched with fascination every second he'd been with Mai, even recalling the different perfumes she'd used on each card in her deck when they'd first met.
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