Sheesh, people can be impatient with me over updates. I said this is PRE Battle City. There aren't any Rare Hunters.......yet. Anyway........

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"FORTY DOLLARS FOR ONE CARD!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I CAN'T AFFORD THAT!!!!!"

Kurt had gone to a local card shop to buy cards for a deck. He was stunned that some cards could be so expensive for just one card.

"Well, the Dark Paladin is a very rare and powerful card." The shop owner, an old man wearing a bandana told him.

"Well, I DO need good cards if I want to have any hope in that tournament that guy announced earlier."

The old man, which we recognize as Yugi's grandfather, raised an eyebrow.

"Tournament? I haven't heard news of that yet."

Then Yugi, Joey, Tea, and the now normal Bakura enter.

"That was a close one Yug." Joey commented.

"I know........Hi Grandpa!"

"Hello Yugi, I'm glad you're back."

Kurt turned to the group.

"Hey, you were one of the two dueling earlier today."

Yugi blinked.

"Yeah."

Yugi then turned to his grandfather.

"I'm going upstairs with my friends Grandpa!"

"Okay then."

Kurt watched the group head up a flight of stairs with a carpet on it. Then he looked to Grandpa Mutou.

"Uh, so he's your grand-son? He's great at that Duel Monsters game."

"That he is. You'd be even more surprised to know the fact despite his skill, almost every card in his deck is borrowed from the shop."

"You mean he can't afford to buy the cards?"

"No. Anyway........"

That's when another customer entered the game shop. Kurt glanced in the door's direction, and was none too thrilled..........

"Toad!"

"What!?! You're here fuzz-ball!?!"

Grandpa Mutou sweatdropped as the two got into a name-calling contest, both in each other's faces, and glaring at the other.

"FLY-EATER!!!"

"PUFF-BALL!!!!"

"SLIME-BUCKET!!!!!"

"GREMLINS MOVIE REJECT!!!!!"

Grandpa Mutou didn't quite understand the point of the argument.

"Now boys, can't you just......."

"FROG-LEGS!!!!!!"

"FUR-FACE!!!!"

Grandpa Mutou then decided it was pointless to bother. Besides, he didn't care to know why some of those names were being used. Upstairs, Yugi and the others heard the shouting.

"Hey guys, can you excuse me a moment?" Yugi asked.

"Sure." "Whatever." "Fine with me."

Yugi then started down the stairs. He took one look at the scene, and sweatdropped. He looked over to his Grandpa, and walked over to the two.

"Can you please stop?" He asked.

"WART-HEAD!!!!"

"SHAG RUG!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Could you please stop?" Yugi asked again.

"POND SCUM!!!!!!!!"

"HAIRY!!!!!"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a strong and confident sounding voice shouted, breaking up the argument.

Kurt and Todd turned to face Yugi, who had asked his Yami form to get them to stop. Kurt and Todd sweatdropped, as did Grandpa Mutou.

"He started it." Todd said, pointing to Kurt.

"I did not!" Kurt shouted.

"Did too!"

"Did Not!!"

"I don't care WHO started it, you both have to STOP it!" Yami said sternly.

"Sorry." Kurt apologized.

"He still started it." Todd replied.

"I did not!"

"You did too!"

"Let ME handle them! I can shut them up!" a dark and ominous voice stated.

Everyone turned to the bottom of the stairs, where Yami Bakura now stood.

"Oh yeah, and what are you going to do?" Todd challenged.

Yami Bakura had a demonic grin on his face.

"Ever take a dip in boiling tar?"

"MOMMY!!!!!!"

Todd cowered in a corner from Yami Bakura. Kurt just sweatdropped.

"As for you, I'm thinking of skinning you alive."
Kurt soon joined Todd in the corner. Then Bakura took control, and blinked, not remembering Yami Bakura's death threats. Yami Yugi sighed, and gave control back to Yugi.

"It's okay, he's gone now." Yugi said to the two.

"No he's not, he's right there!" Kurt said, terrified of Bakura.

"I......."

"He.......has a twin brother that was just released from an asylum. He still threatens, but at least he doesn't carry them out now..........I think." Yugi lied.

"All I came here for was to learn to play Duel Monsters and get a deck to play it!" Kurt and Todd said in tandem.

"Well why didn't you say so in the first place?" Grandpa Mutou asked.

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"Awww man! That was harsh!"

Kurt was heading home from what he called, "Duel Monster Boot Camp from Heck". Grandpa Mutou called it "Thorough Duel Monsters Study." Kurt and Todd both had told Grandpa Mutou they intended to enter the tournament. He understood, and lent each of them a deck he put together specifically for each of them, and made them promise to return them when the tournament was over. Kurt looked through the deck he was given on his way home.

'Grandpa Mutou said that this deck he lent me fit me........let's see.........'

Then he saw two Kuriboh cards and two Multiply cards.

"COOL! You don't mess with the fuzzy ones!"

Kurt then sweatdropped at the odd looks the people on the side-walk were giving him........

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Todd was on his own way home, and was looking through the deck Grandpa Mutou had loaned him.

'Aw man, I just don't see how this can win. I saw those power-house cards that one guy had earlier.......still, he did lose, so...........'

Then he came to Umi, and Deep-sea Warrior.

"Cool. Looks good to me!"

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Kaiba was currently overlooking the revamping and construction of a new project of his.

"Sir, the Virtual Reality projectors are in place. This theme park should be operational soon."

Kaiba sighed. At his brother's suggestion, he had decided to remodel an abandoned theme park and make it into a high-tech Duel Monsters theme park. The main attraction he intended was a Duel Monsters Virtual Reality maze, which could be fun for duelists and non-duelists alike.

"Uh, Mr. Kaiba, sir..........we have a problem." A technician told him.

"What is it?"

"It seems a few of the programs for the maze have come from a source labeled, 'Pegasus'."

Kaiba scowled. He had no time for set-backs.

"It must be some practical joker. Continue as planned. If we find any glitches, we'll terminate the unknown program."

"Right........."

"Now.........who can I get to test this park?"

"Sir, wouldn't the world champion duelist Yugi Mutou be a good choice."

Kaiba gave the advisor a death glare, and sighed.

"I suppose there would be no better choices. Plus Mokuba is still a little sore about getting Yugi and his friends transferred to the United States, though he's forgotten it since we arrived here. Send out the letters."

As Kaiba continued to get work done on the park, one computer that was shut off suddenly comes to life, and five shadows appear on the screen. Dark and ominous, one of them has a golden glint where one of it's eyes should be.........

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A friend has suggested some ideas for the story, which will be used. Anyway, hope the update is liked.