The Next day was spent in different ways by each of the duelists, Kaiba was
locked in meetings for most of the day.
Joey and Yugi spent the day hanging out at Yugi's family game shop. Boosting their decks as best as possible and dueling occasionally to test them.
Mai spent the day hustling Businessmen who thought that a good deck was only about the money they put into it.
By noon she'd won half a deck of rare cards, a Rolex, the keys to a new Motorcycle and enough money to take care of her bill at lunch and a nice little trip to a day spa, because damn it, She deserved it.
Robert and Sammantha spent the day in their home. Tweaking their decks and playing with the newer features of the Duel Disk system.
"Hey Sam, check this out!" Robert called from the Back Yard. well, it wasn't so much a back yard as a small strip of grass between the road and their house.
"What?" Sammantha had emerged from the house, her Duel Disc on her left arm in its standby mode.
"Check out my Duel Disk!" Robert called proudly as he held the arm his Duel Disk was attached to in the air. She saw exactly why he was so proud of it.
After hours of practicing with the device he'd finally gotten the case customization system to work the way he wanted it to.
The Duel Disk was no longer it's prismatic sliver color, now it was an emerald green color, almost the same color as Roberts eyes.
"Wow, I knew it could alter it's casing color but I didn't know it could work to that level." Sammantha was impressed.
"Think you could do that with my system? Only, you know, Red?" She asked as she got closer.
"Sure, just let me take a look at it a little later and I'll set the color levels for you. Though, it's got Duel Monster patterns on the CD you could use one of those instead." Robert said as he nodded his head toward the house.
As they started in sammantha looked to Robert, He stood a head taller than her, the Smirk of happiness still on his face. She Smiled and looped her right arm into his left and put her head on his shoulder.
Robert looked at her when her head settled on his shoulder and smiled. Nothing needed to be said...
6:00am Domino Harbor October 14th...
"Man, the sun isn't even up." Robert griped and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, His long black coat catching the breeze coming off of the water and flapping to his right. The green Duffle bag he had slung over his should bulged in odd places showing his lack of skill at packing bags.
"I haven't been up this early since my dad made me go to morning exercises with him back on the base." He finished taking off the sunglasses he'd thought he'd need once he realized it was still nearly an hour until the sun rose.
"Quit your belly aching, We finally get to take that cruise together." Sammantha said looking to her left at Robert, her black hair up in a pony tail catching the same breeze as Robert's coat.
"We're about to take part in one of the Biggest Duel Monsters Tournaments in the history of the game. I can't wait." She was positively beaming with excitement.
Sammantha adjusted her backpack as she and Robert neared the area marked with KC signs, stating "Duelists ONLY", a picture of a Blue Eyes White Dragon in the background.
"Good thing we got here early and avoided the crowd." Robert spoke sarcastically.
Ahead of them were nearly a hundred Duelists all milling about, some trading others Dueling using the new Duel Disks. Further down were three huge ships all bearing the KC logo.
Time passed and Robert and Sammantha wandered about, watching duels helping out a few of the less experienced duelists set up fair trades and even upgraded a few decks. They'd decided to split up but kept in touch with the little walkie talkie units Robert had insisted on getting last year, "They've got a three mile range and two HUNDRED channels." he'd said as Sammantha had given him an un-impressed look. "Besides, I'm a guy and Guys buy keen gadgets." He finished and chose the set with the interchangeable face plates.
"Sam, you've got to get over here FAST, this is hilarious." Roberts voiced crackled out of the speaker on her walkie.
"Where are you?" She replied back and started to scan the crowd.
"I'm over by the first boat, hurry up this Duel's hilarious." Roberts voice came again his enjoyment obvious by the suppressed laughter.
"I'm coming hold on." She replied and closed the channel handing the young man she'd been helping with his Light based deck back his cards.
Moments later she was standing next to Robert, who was hysterical with laughter as the duel in front of them went on. And the reason was obvious, both Duelists were using Yata-Garasu, Summoning, attacking and then it returned to their hands. They had no other monsters on the field and neither one had any other cards in their hands. It truly was a funny Duel.
Before they'd gotten each other down to 1000LP each their Duel Disks shut down and they got confused looks on their faces.
Sammantha looked around and it seemed as though ALL of the Duel Disks being used in active Duels were now offline, a few moments later a loud beeping sound pierced the crowd, it came from all directions at once sammantha looked at her left wrist and noticed her Duel Disk life point screen was flashing 6:30am.
"Attention Duelists, Please line up at the Docks NOW" a loud speaker had announced as the beeping had stopped.
All of the Duelists did as they had been instructed and lined up, Sammanth and Robert stood side by side in line and waited.
Off of the Main ship Seto Kaiba himself began walking down the loading staircase, his long white coat blowing in the breeze, piercing blue eyes shinning in the dim light of the rising sun. His Duel Disk locked in its standby mode.
"Welcome Duelists, I see all of you have made it. Good, I hate being kept waiting. We will be leaving in less than twenty minutes. you have that long to get on the ship assigned to you." Kaiba paused as murmurs arose from the crowd.
"How are we supposed to know what ship we're on?" A voice called from the back.
"It's quite simple, look at your Duel Disk. The ship I'm standing in front of is ship number one the others are two and three in order of left to right. As I speak a radio signal is being sent to ALL of the Duel Disks here and a random number from one to three is going to show up on your Life Point screen, that's your ship. however only ten duelists will get to be on Ship number one, not counting myself." Kaiba finished and more murmurs came from the crowd.
"Aw, I got three. What about you Robert? I hope we're on the same ship together." Sammantha looked at Robert and saw the sour look on his face.
"I got one." He said with slight distaste and looked at Kaiba who was staring back, smirking knowingly.
"What's wrong, you get to be on a nice ship without a crowd, you hate crowds." Sammantha was concerned by Roberts slightly angry look.
"Kaiba rigged it. He's after my Blue Eyes White Dragons." Robert wasn't guessing his voice carried certainty.
"Well, just don't Duel him until we get to the Island, the Tournament doesn't start until we get there anyway so there's not penalty for refusing a Duel beforehand. IO have to go and get on my ship, I'll call you on the walkies once we're underway." Sammantha gave him a quick kiss and took off towards the furthest of the ships.
Robert sighed and began forward, not watching where he was going and bumped into someone.
"Oh! Jeez, I'm so sorry." Robert began apologizing before he even saw who it was he'd bumped into.
"Oh, it's alright Robert. It's good to see you again Cutey." Mai said as she looked Robert in the eye.
"Did you get ship number one also?" She asked and looked at Roberts Duel Disk to confirm for herself. "Oh Goody! We can get to know each other better on our way to the Island." She said as she took Roberts arm and dragged him towards the ship.
'Oh Sam's not gonna like this.' Robert thought to himself.
The Ships pulled out from the Harbor and a into the open sea. The cool breeze blew over the deck of the ship and Sammantha got a slight misting as the ship caught a wave to the Starboard side of the Bow.
Looking to her left she could see ship number two and further out ship number one, she reached to her hip to grab the Walkie Talkie and call Robert but decided to wait a while and just enjoy the sensation of being at sea.
"Beautiful isn't it?" A mans voice came from behind her. Sammantha turned to see a rather tall handsome man with spiked black hair and a deep tan wearing an open shirt showing off a muscled physique and a pair of shorts that showed developed calf muscles.
"The Ocean, It's Beautiful isn't it?" He said, clarifying what he meant earlier.
"Oh, umm, yes it is." Sammantha stammered.
"My name's Mako." The man said as he took her hand and kissed it lightly.
"Umm, I'm Sammantha." She said, her eyes still wide at how forward the man, Mako was.
"It is my absolute pleasure to meet you Sammantha. Might I say that your eyes are as beautifully blue as the Caribbean sea." He said again, flashing a smile at her.
'Oh, Robert's not going to like this.' She thought to herself
Ship number one
"So that's how I got the Motorcycle and all of these great cards." Mai had finally finished. Since they'd gotten onto the ship she'd been talking about the events since Sammantha had "Lucked out" and beaten her. She spoke in detail and to great end about her victories since then.
"That's very interesting Mai." Robert said politely as he looked beyond her to the two ships cruising to the right of the ship he was on. Ship number two seemed to be falling behind slightly and he got a clear view of ship number three. For a moment he considered totally brushing Mai off and calling Sammantha. Unfortunately he didn't get the chance as someone had approached Mai and himself.
"Hello Mr. Marcus." The voice snapped Robert out of his daze, turning to face the newcomer he saw it was Seto Kaiba.
"Ah, Mr. Kaiba. To what do I owe the honor?" Robert asked slipping into Business mode and extending his hand to shake Kaiba's.
Kaiba however did not return the gesture and Roberts hand hung in the air for a moment until he retracted it.
"I'd like those cards you have in your deck please. I'm willing to make you a VERY generous offer for them." Kaiba said, getting straight down to business.
"Listen Kaiba, I've already turned down your goons and beaten that pathetic deck destruction Duelist you sent after me. You're NOT getting these two cards." Robert stared Kaiba down, his vivid green eyes showing the same intensity as Kaiba's blue eyes were.
"Fine then, I'll take them from you myself once the Tournament starts. You'd best not lose them to anyone else. I hate wasting my time." Kaiba said and turned around to leave.
"What makes you think you won't be handing over your cards Kaiba? I've seen the data on you, you've been beaten a few times." Robert called after him.
Kaiba stopped but did not turn around. "I was beaten yes. But by Duelists in FAR higher classes than you and you feeble little Girlfriend." Kaiba walked away before Robert could make a rude remark about his questionable lineage.
Joey and Yugi spent the day hanging out at Yugi's family game shop. Boosting their decks as best as possible and dueling occasionally to test them.
Mai spent the day hustling Businessmen who thought that a good deck was only about the money they put into it.
By noon she'd won half a deck of rare cards, a Rolex, the keys to a new Motorcycle and enough money to take care of her bill at lunch and a nice little trip to a day spa, because damn it, She deserved it.
Robert and Sammantha spent the day in their home. Tweaking their decks and playing with the newer features of the Duel Disk system.
"Hey Sam, check this out!" Robert called from the Back Yard. well, it wasn't so much a back yard as a small strip of grass between the road and their house.
"What?" Sammantha had emerged from the house, her Duel Disc on her left arm in its standby mode.
"Check out my Duel Disk!" Robert called proudly as he held the arm his Duel Disk was attached to in the air. She saw exactly why he was so proud of it.
After hours of practicing with the device he'd finally gotten the case customization system to work the way he wanted it to.
The Duel Disk was no longer it's prismatic sliver color, now it was an emerald green color, almost the same color as Roberts eyes.
"Wow, I knew it could alter it's casing color but I didn't know it could work to that level." Sammantha was impressed.
"Think you could do that with my system? Only, you know, Red?" She asked as she got closer.
"Sure, just let me take a look at it a little later and I'll set the color levels for you. Though, it's got Duel Monster patterns on the CD you could use one of those instead." Robert said as he nodded his head toward the house.
As they started in sammantha looked to Robert, He stood a head taller than her, the Smirk of happiness still on his face. She Smiled and looped her right arm into his left and put her head on his shoulder.
Robert looked at her when her head settled on his shoulder and smiled. Nothing needed to be said...
6:00am Domino Harbor October 14th...
"Man, the sun isn't even up." Robert griped and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, His long black coat catching the breeze coming off of the water and flapping to his right. The green Duffle bag he had slung over his should bulged in odd places showing his lack of skill at packing bags.
"I haven't been up this early since my dad made me go to morning exercises with him back on the base." He finished taking off the sunglasses he'd thought he'd need once he realized it was still nearly an hour until the sun rose.
"Quit your belly aching, We finally get to take that cruise together." Sammantha said looking to her left at Robert, her black hair up in a pony tail catching the same breeze as Robert's coat.
"We're about to take part in one of the Biggest Duel Monsters Tournaments in the history of the game. I can't wait." She was positively beaming with excitement.
Sammantha adjusted her backpack as she and Robert neared the area marked with KC signs, stating "Duelists ONLY", a picture of a Blue Eyes White Dragon in the background.
"Good thing we got here early and avoided the crowd." Robert spoke sarcastically.
Ahead of them were nearly a hundred Duelists all milling about, some trading others Dueling using the new Duel Disks. Further down were three huge ships all bearing the KC logo.
Time passed and Robert and Sammantha wandered about, watching duels helping out a few of the less experienced duelists set up fair trades and even upgraded a few decks. They'd decided to split up but kept in touch with the little walkie talkie units Robert had insisted on getting last year, "They've got a three mile range and two HUNDRED channels." he'd said as Sammantha had given him an un-impressed look. "Besides, I'm a guy and Guys buy keen gadgets." He finished and chose the set with the interchangeable face plates.
"Sam, you've got to get over here FAST, this is hilarious." Roberts voiced crackled out of the speaker on her walkie.
"Where are you?" She replied back and started to scan the crowd.
"I'm over by the first boat, hurry up this Duel's hilarious." Roberts voice came again his enjoyment obvious by the suppressed laughter.
"I'm coming hold on." She replied and closed the channel handing the young man she'd been helping with his Light based deck back his cards.
Moments later she was standing next to Robert, who was hysterical with laughter as the duel in front of them went on. And the reason was obvious, both Duelists were using Yata-Garasu, Summoning, attacking and then it returned to their hands. They had no other monsters on the field and neither one had any other cards in their hands. It truly was a funny Duel.
Before they'd gotten each other down to 1000LP each their Duel Disks shut down and they got confused looks on their faces.
Sammantha looked around and it seemed as though ALL of the Duel Disks being used in active Duels were now offline, a few moments later a loud beeping sound pierced the crowd, it came from all directions at once sammantha looked at her left wrist and noticed her Duel Disk life point screen was flashing 6:30am.
"Attention Duelists, Please line up at the Docks NOW" a loud speaker had announced as the beeping had stopped.
All of the Duelists did as they had been instructed and lined up, Sammanth and Robert stood side by side in line and waited.
Off of the Main ship Seto Kaiba himself began walking down the loading staircase, his long white coat blowing in the breeze, piercing blue eyes shinning in the dim light of the rising sun. His Duel Disk locked in its standby mode.
"Welcome Duelists, I see all of you have made it. Good, I hate being kept waiting. We will be leaving in less than twenty minutes. you have that long to get on the ship assigned to you." Kaiba paused as murmurs arose from the crowd.
"How are we supposed to know what ship we're on?" A voice called from the back.
"It's quite simple, look at your Duel Disk. The ship I'm standing in front of is ship number one the others are two and three in order of left to right. As I speak a radio signal is being sent to ALL of the Duel Disks here and a random number from one to three is going to show up on your Life Point screen, that's your ship. however only ten duelists will get to be on Ship number one, not counting myself." Kaiba finished and more murmurs came from the crowd.
"Aw, I got three. What about you Robert? I hope we're on the same ship together." Sammantha looked at Robert and saw the sour look on his face.
"I got one." He said with slight distaste and looked at Kaiba who was staring back, smirking knowingly.
"What's wrong, you get to be on a nice ship without a crowd, you hate crowds." Sammantha was concerned by Roberts slightly angry look.
"Kaiba rigged it. He's after my Blue Eyes White Dragons." Robert wasn't guessing his voice carried certainty.
"Well, just don't Duel him until we get to the Island, the Tournament doesn't start until we get there anyway so there's not penalty for refusing a Duel beforehand. IO have to go and get on my ship, I'll call you on the walkies once we're underway." Sammantha gave him a quick kiss and took off towards the furthest of the ships.
Robert sighed and began forward, not watching where he was going and bumped into someone.
"Oh! Jeez, I'm so sorry." Robert began apologizing before he even saw who it was he'd bumped into.
"Oh, it's alright Robert. It's good to see you again Cutey." Mai said as she looked Robert in the eye.
"Did you get ship number one also?" She asked and looked at Roberts Duel Disk to confirm for herself. "Oh Goody! We can get to know each other better on our way to the Island." She said as she took Roberts arm and dragged him towards the ship.
'Oh Sam's not gonna like this.' Robert thought to himself.
The Ships pulled out from the Harbor and a into the open sea. The cool breeze blew over the deck of the ship and Sammantha got a slight misting as the ship caught a wave to the Starboard side of the Bow.
Looking to her left she could see ship number two and further out ship number one, she reached to her hip to grab the Walkie Talkie and call Robert but decided to wait a while and just enjoy the sensation of being at sea.
"Beautiful isn't it?" A mans voice came from behind her. Sammantha turned to see a rather tall handsome man with spiked black hair and a deep tan wearing an open shirt showing off a muscled physique and a pair of shorts that showed developed calf muscles.
"The Ocean, It's Beautiful isn't it?" He said, clarifying what he meant earlier.
"Oh, umm, yes it is." Sammantha stammered.
"My name's Mako." The man said as he took her hand and kissed it lightly.
"Umm, I'm Sammantha." She said, her eyes still wide at how forward the man, Mako was.
"It is my absolute pleasure to meet you Sammantha. Might I say that your eyes are as beautifully blue as the Caribbean sea." He said again, flashing a smile at her.
'Oh, Robert's not going to like this.' She thought to herself
Ship number one
"So that's how I got the Motorcycle and all of these great cards." Mai had finally finished. Since they'd gotten onto the ship she'd been talking about the events since Sammantha had "Lucked out" and beaten her. She spoke in detail and to great end about her victories since then.
"That's very interesting Mai." Robert said politely as he looked beyond her to the two ships cruising to the right of the ship he was on. Ship number two seemed to be falling behind slightly and he got a clear view of ship number three. For a moment he considered totally brushing Mai off and calling Sammantha. Unfortunately he didn't get the chance as someone had approached Mai and himself.
"Hello Mr. Marcus." The voice snapped Robert out of his daze, turning to face the newcomer he saw it was Seto Kaiba.
"Ah, Mr. Kaiba. To what do I owe the honor?" Robert asked slipping into Business mode and extending his hand to shake Kaiba's.
Kaiba however did not return the gesture and Roberts hand hung in the air for a moment until he retracted it.
"I'd like those cards you have in your deck please. I'm willing to make you a VERY generous offer for them." Kaiba said, getting straight down to business.
"Listen Kaiba, I've already turned down your goons and beaten that pathetic deck destruction Duelist you sent after me. You're NOT getting these two cards." Robert stared Kaiba down, his vivid green eyes showing the same intensity as Kaiba's blue eyes were.
"Fine then, I'll take them from you myself once the Tournament starts. You'd best not lose them to anyone else. I hate wasting my time." Kaiba said and turned around to leave.
"What makes you think you won't be handing over your cards Kaiba? I've seen the data on you, you've been beaten a few times." Robert called after him.
Kaiba stopped but did not turn around. "I was beaten yes. But by Duelists in FAR higher classes than you and you feeble little Girlfriend." Kaiba walked away before Robert could make a rude remark about his questionable lineage.