By animeninjaNIPPON

Since I'm an anti-4Kids advocate, I tried to use the original names of the cards whenever possible. But those names were hard to come across… well, I tried.

"Battle!"

The duel had begun. Life points were set at 8000 – higher than they were at Duelist Kingdom. Jonouchi made the first move, summoning Axe Raider. I set a low-level card face-down for fodder, and sure enough, Jonouchi destroyed it.

I needed some stronger cards – fast. It was my turn, so I drew a card… and it was Leghul, an Insect-type.

An Insect-type! How the Hell did that get in my deck? That was Haga's area of expertise… wait a minute. It was Haga's card. It probably got mixed up in my deck after one of our practice duels, right before we…

I smiled as I realized how it got mixed up in my deck. My smile broadened as I remembered its special ability – it could attack an opponent's life points directly. I immediately summoned it to the field.

"Leghul?" Jonouchi was confused. "Since when did you start collecting Insect cards?"

I could tell by his cat-like expression that his mind was in the gutter, so I came up with an excuse: "I won it."

"Right…" Jonouchi looked at me skeptically.

"And I'm gonna attack your life points directly!" I announced before the Leghul hologram went in to assail Jonouchi. Suddenly, an electric jolt went up through the cross Yugi was strapped to, making him cry out in pain.

"No!" his friends protested as Haga and I laughed maniacally.

Anzu turned to Kaiba. "You said it would be a mild shock!"

"Perhaps Yugi has a low pain threshold," Kaiba responded. Jonouchi clenched his teeth in fury. I smiled. That one was for Haga.

"You idiot," Jonouchi snarled angrily. I felt some level of satisfaction as Yugi gasped for breath, but it quickly died when I turned back to see Jonouchi grinning smugly. "You just left yourself wide open."

Crap! He was right – I was so caught up in my revenge that I hadn't thought carefully. Before I knew it, Leghul was destroyed, and my life points were down to 7500. At least he didn't have any other cards on the field.

"Damn you," I muttered as Anzu and Honda stood admiringly in the background. I drew another card – Sword Arm of Dragon. I didn't want to use it just yet, so I put down another weak card. Jonouchi promptly destroyed it with Axe Raider.

"I hope you have a better battle strategy than defensive suicide," he remarked. I glared at him, drawing a card and setting another in my Spell/Trap Zone.

"I do." I set another weak monster.

End of part fourteen