King of Games

Chapter 1

'The Game Card', thought Li as he, Sakura, and Madison got off of the train to Tokyo. Li wore a red jacket with blue jeans and a white undershirt.

"Odaiba at last!" yawned Madison, stretching in her white T-shirt and skirt.

"Finally!" laughed Sakura. Sakura wasn't wearing one of those crazy costumes, but a normal pink tank top with blue jean shorts. Li turned to his girlfriend and her best friend and smiled. They seemed to be enjoying this. 'But still,' he thought. 'I have a feeling that that card will make its appearance soon.'

Cards!

'Sakura saw it in her dream.'

Cards!

'I can't stop thinking about those cards now.'

"LI!" yelled Sakura, waking him up from his trance. "Hey, come on! Don't you want a pack of these?"

Li turned to see Sakura holding up a fresh pack of Duel Monsters Game Cards. "Those aren't the kind of game cards we want, Sakura," Li joked.

"Lighten up, Syaoran," laughed Madison. "I've heard this game is really cool. We'll each get one pack. How's that sound?"

Li smiled. "Right. Maybe it'll give us some strategy on getting the Game Card."

"Would you stop thinking about that?" Sakura demanded. "We're here in Tokyo to have fun! Not gather Clow Cards. Let's just grab a pack of these and we'll play at the hotel!"

"Yeah, it was a stroke of luck that Sakura won this trip in that contest, Li, so lighten up!" smirked Madison.

"Right, let's each take one and go," the Chinese boy laughed.

"Okay, so you'll have to pay 3,600 yen now," said Sakura. Li pulled out his money and gave it to the seller. 'Kind of expensive,' he thought. He then looked at Sakura and Madison.

"Aren't you going to pay for yours?" he asked.

"Why should we when you just paid for us," Madison giggled right before she and Sakura ran as fast as they could. It took Li a second to realize what just happened.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE, YOU CHEAPOS!"

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"Izzy pointed to coordinates to here," said Ken, looking at the map on his D-Terminal. The Digidestined looked around. All of them, although older, were still wearing the same clothes that they had before. They were in the middle of a desert and there wasn't even a digimon in sight.

"Weird," said Cody. Yolei hung onto Ken.

"There's something weird going on," thought TK, as he, Kari, and Davis walked along behind the other three. Suddenly, the ground shook.

"What's happening?!" asked Kari.

"Kari, hang on to me," Davis told her. Kari was about to grab the boy's arm when the ground opened up to reveal a dark figure. It was a humanoid with dark black hair. He was in a cloak that's entirely black and was holding a staff. In fact, he looked familiar to TK and Davis.

"W-What is that thing?" gasped Yolei.

"Not any digimon I've seen before," Kari told her.

"Duel..." the man whispered, pointing his staff at the Digidestined. Suddenly, a ball of dark energy shot out at them from it.

"Look out!" cried Cody as the digidestined dodged the attack.

"That's it!!" yelled Davis. "DIGIVOLVE!"

"Right!" the digimon all said at the same time.

"Veemon digivolve to...Exveemon!"

"Armadillomon digivolve to...Ankylomon!"

"Hawkmon digivolve to...Aquilamon!"

Ken, TK, and Kari stayed back, realizing that just digivolving and attacking was reckless and risky.

"Stop!" yelled Ken.

"V-Laser!"

"Tail Hammer!"

"Blast Ring!"

The man took his staff and held it in front of him. Some sort of barrier formed in front of him and knocked the three attacks back at the attackers.

"He's strong," grumbled ExVeemon.

"Duel..." the man said in a silent whisper. He then pointed his staff at TK.

"Huh?" TK thought out loud. The man leapt at him. Kari noticed this and gasped.

"TK!!!!!"

Kari jumped forward and pushed TK aside, while being knocked out herself by the man.

"Kari!" cried TK. He ran over to her unconscious body, but the evil man glared at him with his evil, glowing yellow eyes. TK's eyes widened suddenly. "YOU!"

"Duel..." the man whispered and picked up Kari's limp form.

"Let her go, you creep!" demanded Gatomon, when he teleported away right before her eyes.

"Kari, no..." TK began to cry. "No, not by him...I've failed her."

"TK, I just realized something," Davis told him. "Didn't that guy kind of look kind of like...the Dark Magician?"

"A Duel Monster?" asked Ken. "How could that be?"

"Kari's gone, and it's all my fault!" TK screamed at himself.

"Guys, it's late," Cody told them. "We'd better get home, we can find a way to get Kari back later."

"Yeah, later," TK muttered. 'I swear, Kari. If it's the last thing I do, I'll rescue you.'

"We'll get her back, TK," Patamon assured him.

They walked back to the digiport. TK remembered that his mom had an interview with some people she wanted him to meet. She had never said who though...

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Ms. Nancy Takaishi was sitting at her computer, finishing a report on the importance of homework. She had to before her son, TK, got home, because that would be when her special guests would arrive. The doorbell rang all of a sudden. Nancy sighed and saved her work. She answered the door to reveal four kids about her son's age. One was a short kid with a strange hairstyle. Another was a taller guy, with messy blond hair. A brown-haired boy with his hair well groomed stood next to the blond, and a pretty brunette girl stood behind them.

"You must be the kids I'm supposed to interview," Nancy smiled.

"That's us," the brunette girl answered for her.

"Right," Nancy invited them in. "Sorry my son's not here, he's with his computer club again. He would love to meet all of you."

"That's alright, Ms. Takaishi," the blond told her. "We'll wait for him."

Nancy smiled. "Now, which one of you is Yugi Moto?"

TBC...

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Very short, I realized that. Sorry, but finals are coming up again and my time has been pushed this way and that. Summer vacation's almost here, so I'll write more then, okay? Well, R&R.