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Chapter 41: It Doesn't run in the Family

Ryuko smiled slightly at the outcome of the previous match. 'Well, guess this means me and Kaiba rumble."' Ryuko smirked, anxious to win the Blue-Eyes White Dragons from Kaiba. Little did he know he wouldn't be facing the Kaiba who owned the Blue-Eyes cards…


Mokuba Kaiba looked out at the large audience and gulped. 'This is just like a school play, how does big brother do this all the time?" he thought, looking around at the audience nervously. Seto Kaiba hed requested a higher up seat to watch his brother duel, he had given Mokuba tips and tricks he knew of, and let him use the massive supply of Duel Monsters cards Kaiba held. However much he asked, however, Mokuba couldn't persuade his brother to give him even one of the three Dragons which so many wanted.

"I assume everyone is ready for the next match?" Kamishiro asked the audience. The large crowd of people cheered, of course Shisei and Namia didn't really feel like cheering much at the moment, they were looking through the crowd at eye level for Ryuko. "Then we'll go now. First things first, however, while Mr. Seto Kaiba is an extremely skilled duelist," Kamishiro began, pointing towards Kaiba in the stands. People turned around and saw the young CEO with his arms crossed and focusing on his little brother. "he wished for his younger brother, Mokuba Kaiba, to shine and make his own dueling reputation today." Kamishiro swept his arm out and pointed to Mokuba, who conquered his fear quickly and stepped up the ring.

"Well, looks like Ryuko just might stand a chance." Namia said, shocked to see the replacement of one Kaiba with another. 'He better win, so far as I know, this kid can't duel worth crap."' she thought, referring to Mokuba.

"I'MMMMMMMMMMMM HEEEEEEEERRRRRRREEEEEEE!" A loud voice made everyone in the dueling complex turn around and blink in surprise as they saw Ryuko glide down from his previous sound booth, rush past Namia and Shisei, who he flashed the thumbs up, and jump onto his spot in the arena. "Ready Kaiba, I plan to -who the hell are you?" Ryuko had raised a finger and pointed it at Mokuba before he registered it wasn't the right Kaiba brother.

"I'm Mokuba Kaiba, Seto Kaiba's younger brother." Mokuba said, almost automatically. Ryuko's shoulders slumped and he looked down.

"Aw, man, I really wanted to duel the good Kaiba!" Ryuko moaned and Mokuba growled. Kaiba up in the stands blinked at the brown haired boy that wanted his Blue-Eyes collection and insulted his brother. "Instead I get some kid." Ryuko pouted, obviously not realizing he and Mokuba were about the same age, give or take a few months.

"Well don't think it'll be all fun for me, having to duel a loser like you and all." Mokuba interjected, readying his newly made, never truly tested (he always went against his brother's real deck, which he knew he couldn't beat), and stepped up to the plate.

Ryuko sighed and his disk folded out as well. "Fine, I'll whoop you, but make it quick." he requested. The audience laughed, clearly thinking because Mokuba was related to Kaiba he'd easily whoop this other midget.

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Mokuba drew first and smirked. "Okay, I'll summon Element Valkyrie (1500/1200) in attack mode, and I end my turn there." Mokuba smirked. Ryuko's eyes narrowed as he drew his card.

"I'll summon Red Eyes B. Chick (800/500) in attack mode." A cute, cuddly baby dragon with red scales appeared. "It has the potential to destroy that want-to-be witch." Ryuko said, pointing to the winking Valkyrie of Mokuba's. "But first I need one more card, so I play Tiny Pound Hammer, and shuffle my entire hand back into my deck." Ryuko did so, drawing the same amount of cards as his Magic card stated he should.

"What are you doing, loser, face it, your want-to-be dragon can't stand up to the power of my..um, Element deck, yeah, Element!" Mokuba said, trying to find the best words to describe his deck. Ryuko slid his chick off of his own disk and placed another card down.

"Your pathetic, I use my monsters Special Ability, now that I have a Red Eyes Black Dragon in my hand, I can send this baby to the graveyard and summon it!" Ryuko smirked and did so. A new Red Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000) this one fully formed, appeared with a growl at Mokuba.

"Hey, how did you know you'd draw Red Eyes!" Mokuba asked as Ryuko played another card.

"I didn't, but my dragons never really have let me down, so I put faith in them and summoned my chick." Ryuko smiled. "So now see the power that my deck really holds, I activate another card I didn't even imagine getting, Inferno Fire Blast!" Ryuko's dragoon began to fly higher and higher, eventually reaching the roof of the stadium. "Now say sayonara, because my magic card allows one Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000) to attack your LP directly!" The flying dragon blasted chunks of red hot lava and earth at poor Mokuba.

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"Ow…" Mokuba started as the illusion disappeared and Ryuko let his opponent draw. "I'll show you!" Mokuba protested to losing so many LP so early. He drew his next card and looked up in the stands to see his big brother. 'I will win, you trusted me Seto, I won't let you down!"' he thought. "I summon.."

Shisei yawned at the match. "Man, this is so boring, wish Ryuko would just finish the kid off already." Shisei said. Namia looked over to the boy.

"You sound really sure of yourself by saying he'll win, you do realize he could lose?" Namia told the other blond. Shisei only smiled at the female.

"Hey, I understand that I'm not saying he could win against Kaiba, though he actually might be able to…" Shisei began to think of the outcome of a match against Kaiba and Ryuko and smirked. 'Yeah, Ryuko would get his butt handed to him."' he thought.

"Well, what are you saying about his skill?" Namia asked. Shisei only shrugged and Namia rolled her eyes.

Seto Kaiba glared at the match as he saw his brother was losing to some overly active midget wearing one of his duel disks. 'Damn monkey, then he had the nerve to want my Blue-Eyes White Dragons."' Kaiba growled. 'Come on Mokuba, you can win."' Kaiba was positive of this as the duel continued.

Ryuko watched as Mokuba slammed another card onto his disk. "I start by summoning my Element Soldier (1500/1200), in defense mode, then I switch Element Valkyrie (1500/1200) to defense. Finally, I set this card facedown, go." Mokuba wiped sweat from his brow as Ryuko drew with an evil look on his young face.

"Alright, I start with the Armed Dragon LV 3 (1200/900) in attack mode, then I activate Burst Breath," Ryuko injected another card into his disk and his Armed Dragon began to glow with energy. "this allows me to tribute one dragon type monster on my field to destroy all monsters on the field with defensive values equal to or lower than the tributed dragon's attack!" Armed Dragon LV 3 (1200/900) lunged with lots of hyperactivity into the center of the ring, where it promptly blew up.

"Not again!" Mokuba moaned as he realized he would be suffering another direct attack by his opponent. He braced himself as the Red Eyes Black Dragon Reared it's head back and blasted flames and lava at Mokuba again.

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"Having fun yet?" Ryuko snickered and slid another card into his duel disk. "I end my turn with this card face-down." Ryuko yawned, pretending to be more bored than he was as Mokuba drew his next card.

'I can't screw up now!"' Mokuba thought. "Alright, I set this monster in defense mode, your move!" Mokuba held his breath as Ryuko drew.

"Well I didn't expect you to be a challenge, so now I'll show you true power!" Ryuko smirked and his face down card flipped as Mokuba's turn ended. "Say hello to Call of the Haunted, I use it's effect to Special Summon my Armed Dragon LV 3 (1200/900) back to the field, and now that it's my turn, I draw!" Ryuko did so. "Approaching my Standby Phase I sacrifice my Armed Dragon for it's higher up, Armed Dragon LV 5 (2400/1700) in attack mode!" Ryuko then slid another card down.

"What is all this supposed to be doing?" Mokuba asked, though he wasn't sure if he wanted to know.

"Simply watch, and you shall see." Ryuko pressed an activation button on his disk and his newest monster growled and grew larger. When the Armed Dragon had first appeared, it was a scrawny, yet still spiky and growling dragon, now it had grown to become a kind of adolescent with larger, deadlier spikes and a new barrage of weapons in its skin as well. "I activate Level Up! And get rid of my new armed dragon for the Armed Dragon LV 7 (2800/1000) in attack mode!" the newest beast wasn't one you wanted to cross, looking as threatening as the Red Eyes and then some, it snapped ferociously at Mokuba. Ryuko took both of his remaining cards off of his disk. "Now behold, the reason I want the Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards, the reason Kaiba will duel me for all three will be because of the card I hold now, I need to sacrifice two level 7 or higher dragons." Ryuko showed his opponent Red Eyes and Armed Dragon.

"Wha-what card makes you do that?" Mokuba gulped as he heard thunder and lightning growl outside of the stadium. Kaiba, up in the stands frowned in wonder as to what this card could be that he'd challenge a want-to-be duelist such as Ryuko.

"Say hello, to the Blue-Eyes Omega Dragon (3500/3000) in attack mode!" At first nothing happened, then the ground burst open and the Blue eyed dragon appeared, it's pearly white scales bearing odd markings that meant "end" in different languages. "Only one of this card exists, and its in my deck." Ryuko smirked.

'That can't be…"' Seto Kaiba looked at his brother's defeat in more shock than his brother. 'Pegasus only made five variations of the Blue-Eyes total, and that's including the Shining Dragon!"' Kaiba felt giddy with excitement, after the initial shock anyways. 'This kid thinks he can beat me, so he'll ante up that card, and when I have it…."' Kaiba turned to look at Yami, who he thought of as Yugi, with a smirk. 'Let's hope this card isn't pathetic."' he thought to himself.

Mokuba gulped as the Dragon on Ryuko's field roared and blasted his set card away. "By the way, when my monster is normal summoned, he destroys all cards on the field but himself." Ryuko informed his opponent. Mokuba fell to his knees as he saw how powerful the beast across from him was and knew he had nothing to defend with.

"Finish it." he requested. Ryuko nodded.

"I attack your LP directly with Blue Eyes Omega Dragon (3500/3000)!" the beast swept open it's wings and flew up into the air, where it promptly blasted Mokuba to pieces.

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Shisei clapped at Ryuko's amazing feat of beating Mokuba with all his LP in tact. "Good job!" Shisei rushed into the stadium and clapped his friend on the back. Just as Kamishiro was about to announce Yami vs. Shisei as the next match, Kaiba's shadow loomed over all those in the stadium.

"That was an interesting card. Where did you get it?" Kaiba asked Ryuko with his familiar evil smirk apparent on his face. Ryuko stood up with a smirk, ready to claim "what was his." Namia's eyes went wide and she grabbed his small arm to keep him away from Kaiba.

"Ryuko, don't you dare!" she said. She didn't want Kaiba to humiliate the poor boy, but Ryuko wrenched from her grasp and held up his deck, re shuffling it and inserting it into his duel disk as Kaiba looked at him oddly.

"I suppose this means you challenge me to a duel, huh?" Ryuko asked what he thought was a rhetorical question.

Kaiba tossed back his head and laughed. It took him a good two minutes to stop. "You really are serious aren't you? I have no intention of dueling for that card, a brat like you just doesn't deserve to own it. Hand it over." Kaiba commanded and that's where Joey and Yami jumped in.

"What's wrong Kaiba, to scared to duel Yugi so your picking on little kids now!" Joey asked with his fist ready to rip Kaiba a new one. Kaiba turned and rolled his eyes at Joey.

"Didn't I give you your bone for today?" he asked. Yami then walked directly up to Kaiba as well, as Shisei and Namia took Tristan's normal job of holding Joey back.

"You have no right to take a card just because you want it, if you wish for it then you must duel." Yami said and Kaiba snorted.

"Have it your way, I'll be using the card I acquire to defeat you anyway." Kaiba raised his duel disk and it clicked into place as though connected to his thoughts. "Are you ready kid, get that card out now." Kaiba smirked as Kamishiro walked up to the podium.

"Well here you have it folks, instead of skipping to the last round of the special session, this will give everyone a little bit of time to buy popcorn and give me time to tell you that the score stands at World Champions-0 and New Losers-1!" Kamishiro stated over the loud roar. Shisei and Joey suddenly swapped roles as Shisei lunged at Kamishiro for being called "New Losers".

Kaiba smirked as he shuffled his deck and slid it into the disk. "This is it kid, and win I win, you'll be giving me the only thing of value in your entire deck!" Kaiba laughed as he drew his opening hand.

Next time: Ryuko and Kaiba's match lasts for little more than a few minutes before someone wins something important. However, as the final match draws near, Shisei is ready to duel for his and Kou's life. Speaking of the young swordsman, he gets a chance to show what he's worth away from Osmos's eyes. It's Kou vs. Shadow/Ryuko vs. Kaiba/Shisei vs. YamiYugi. Who will win in these exciting match ups? Find out next time on Duel Monsters Maximum!

A/N: Yes, the long awaited return of Kou is next chapter, ah, we missed him. But anyway, keep reviewing and reading, bye!

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