Chapter 27- Beginning

Time/ 8:38 pm EST

Location/ Black Castle Games, where if your dreams don't come true, you can at least argue with the store clerks for no apparent reason. Yay.

Chin-ga-ling! The bell over the Black Castle doorway jangled happily. It was doing its job breaking the concentration of gamers. Hehehe.

"Hey! You here for the tournament?"

A man with bright blue eyes and a shaved head spoke from his position leaning on the counter. Don't think that he was bored, he was just leaning there to look bored. It was what he did. Especially when there also was a rabid, hyper gamer trying to argue with him over losing.

"Hey Jake! We've got a new gamer! This is my step-bro, Ryou Bakura!"

"Cool! We haven't had someone new in a while!"

"Really?"

"No, not really. I just like being sarcastic."

"Oh."

"Whats 'sup?"

Another blue-eyed store clerk, this one with wild brown hair, stepped out from somewhere in the back, carrying a cardboard box.

"HEY JAKE!"

"HEY LAURA! WHY ARE YOU YELLING?"

"'CAUSE RY-RY'S GONNA DUEL TODAY!"

"OH! OKAY! WHO'S RY-RY?"

Ryou meekly raised his hand.

"I'm Ryou. You're named Jake also?"

"Yeah, everyone who works here is. It messes with the time and space here. Ain't that neat?"

"Um…"

Andro walked over to the counter and slapped 20 bucks on the counter.

"We'd like to sign up!"

The Jake behind the counter nodded.

"What packs do you guys want?"

Nicole turned to Ryou.

"What do you want?"

"Eh, the newest please."

"Same for the rest of us!"

"Alright." The clerk pulled 4 packs of cards from the display case, which doubled as the counter. "I still don't see why you buy cards you create yourself."

"Haven't you figured it out? We don't just pick our cards! We put ourselves at an even playing field with the normal players!"

The storeclerk shrugged.

"I'd just load my deck with pain-based destruction."

"Well, we aren't you!"

"And I'm not a bunch of power-toting, hyperactive, maniacal teenagers bent on spontaneously causing and preventing chaos."

"Meh, we like our life style, thank you!"

Bakura sighed, then realized that unlike usual he was visable. The store clerk looked mildly interested.

"So we've got another mage among us. Whoop-dee-doo."

"But YOU'RE a mage also!"

"Whoop-dee-doo."

"Is that all you can say?"
"Whoop-dee-doo."

Ryou and Bakura laughed. This town was weird!