King of Games
Chapter 3
The time was quite late, as nearly all of the great city of Tokyo was asleep. Nearly. Three teenagers and a digimon, who had only met an hour before, sat in a gazebo at Odaiba Park, talking.
"So, who wants to go first?" asked Yugi.
"I will," said Sakura. "I'm not a normal girl, as you all know. I am really a Card Captor."
"Card Captor?" asked TK.
"What's a Card Captor? Do you go around collecting cards like Duel Monsters or something?" Yugi wondered aloud.
"No," Sakura answered cooly. "I collect these." She held several strange looking cards in front of TK and Yugi. "They're called Clow Cards. All of them are extremely powerful and all are wild and need to be tamed. That's my job. Me and my boyfriend, Li Syaoran, have gone on many adventures to capture all of these cards, until a final judgment day placed me as the owner."
"I see, kind of," TK was still trying to piece everything together.
"But now I realize not all of them have been captured," Sakura continued. "A new one has been discovered. It's called the Game Card, and my friend tells me that it's the ultimate winner."
"Friend?" Yugi questioned.
"She means me," a muffled voice in her bag said. Out popped a small flying yellow bear. "Hi! I'm Kero!"
"Whoa," TK stared at it. "What is this?"
"The search for the Clow Cards began when I was ten," said Sakura. "That was when I opened the ancient mystical book of Clow, and the cards escaped. Kero was the guardian of the cards and came out of the book. He's been helping since this whole thing started."
"You mean to say that all those magical cards were guarded by this guy?" asked Patamon. "He looks like Pikachu!" (A/N: I don't own Pokemon either!)
A vein popped out of Kero's head. "WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME?!"
"I'm just surprised that so much power was protected by a flying teddy bear," Patamon smirked.
"TEDDY BEAR?! Well, better a flying bear than a flying pig," Kero said with his own devilish smirk. Now a vein popped out of Patamon's head. The two began to argue.
"Anyway," Sakura continued, ignoring the digimon and the guardian beast. "To get the Game Card, you must defeat him in a sort of game, like chess or chinese checkers or..."
"...Duel Monsters," TK finished for her. She nodded.
"I can help you there," said Yugi. "I was dubbed the King of Games by winning the Duel Monsters competition at Duelist Kingdom."
"That's not much of a secret, now is it?" TK asked.
"No, but this is," Yugi held up the golden puzzle that hung around his neck. "This is the Millenium Puzzle. It came from ancient Egypt, and holds a great power within it."
"A power?" Sakura asked. "What sort of power?"
"I'm not too sure myself," Yugi smiled. "But I think I'll let my 'other' speak for me."
"'Other'?" TK and Sakura asked.
Just then, the Millenium Puzzle began to glow. Yugi closed his eyes for a second, and when he opened them, they turned from innocent and childlike to mature and more serious. Sakura sensed an immense amount of power coming from the small pyramid.
"Hello, I am Yami," said the new Yugi. TK and Sakura immediately noticed the difference between the two. "I am called that because it means 'darkness'." TK's eyes hardened at the word.
"Were you...evil?" asked Sakura.
"Not at all," Yami smiled. "I was once a Pharoah in Ancient Egypt, who locked away a game that could've destroyed the world. Other than that, I remember nothing."
"You must really want to know about your past, huh?" TK asked. He had calmed down a bit.
"Yes indeed," Yami sighed. "I'm afraid I don't have much of a secret to tell you about."
"Are you kidding?!" laughed Sakura. "Who knew that the world famous Yugi Moto had an alter ego? That's secret enough for me!"
"Sakura, you may want to quiet down," TK whispered in her ear. Sakura nodded and blushed in embarassment.
"Now, Takeru, please tell us your secret," Yami told TK. The blond sighed.
"With all your 'ancient powers' I'm ashamed to say mine are quite recent," TK told them. "My power comes from another world."
"Do tell," Yami and Sakura listened intently.
"In a parallel universe, there is a Digital World, created by data from computers and the dreams of people. When I was eight, I was sent to that world along with my older brother and five other Chosen Children by recieving these." TK held up his digivice. "There, I met my Digimon, Patamon." He turned to Patamon, who was still arguing with Kero.
"Digimon?" asked Sakura, curiously.
"Digital Monster," TK told her. "They are the creatures that live in the Digital World. Anyway, we battled many digimon by allowing our digimon to Digivolve to a more powerful monster using our digivices. They are loyal partners and will do anything to save us. Even be killed," TK looked to the ground, remembering the battle against Devimon. "However, they can be reborn into a new, baby digimon. Eventually, we recieved crests that allowed our digimon to digivolve to an even HIGHER level. These crests represented qualities within our hearts. Mine is Hope. After a while of being stuck in the Digital World, we followed a dark digimon, Myotismon, into the Real World."
"When all of those monsters attacked Tokyo!" Sakura remembered from the news when she was eight.
"Exactly. There, we met the eighth Chosen child, Kari," TK saddened at the name. "With her new crest, Light, we could defeat Myotismon and bring peace once again to both worlds. However, we had to go back to the Digital World to stop a more powerful evil, the Dark Masters. We eventually did, and we had the fight the ultimate evil digimon, Apocalymon. Using the powers of our hearts, we defeated Apocalymon and all was back to normal."
"Sounds like an everlasting game of Duel Monsters," Yami told him.
"Not at all. That's the thinking that lead to our second adventure. Kari and I had to lead a new group of Chosen Children. We had to battle another Chosen that we had never met, who claimed himself to be the digimon emperor. He restricted our Digivolving, so we needed a new way to digivolve. That was armor digivolving, using Metal Digieggs. We beat the Emperor, and he realized the the Digital World was not a game. He joined us and helped battle more evils to the return of Myotismon as MaloMyotismon. From there, everything's gone uphill."
"Wow," Sakura was still taking in all that TK had said. "But what got you so depressed this afternoon?"
"Well, it was Kari," TK told her. "She...was kidnapped in the Digital World earlier today, by a Dark Magician."
Yami's ears perked up. "Dark Magician?"
"Like the one in Duel Monsters, only pure black," said TK. "In a nutshell, Kari got knocked out saving me, he got Kari, faced me, said 'Duel', and left."
"Duel?" asked Sakura. "He wanted to beat you in a game of Duel Monsters or something?"
"I guess," TK shrugged.
"Sakura, you mentioned something about a Game Card?" Yami asked her. Sakura looked at him and nodded.
"I see," Yami smiled. "What exactly does this Game Card do?"
"It challenges everyone it wants to a...game?" Sakura looked at TK. "And losing the game makes you pay the ultimate price."
"Wait, are you saying that Dark Magician is somehow related to the Game Card?" TK asked.
"It's possible," Yami answered. "Either way, it sounds like you'll have to beat the Dark Magician in a duel to get Kari back, am I right?"
"Yeah," TK answered. "Yami, I beg of you, you have to train me!"
"I'll do more than train you, TK," Yami told him. "I'm going to help you improve your Dueling Deck, and I would be honored if you allow me to fight by your side."
"Me too," Sakura told him. "I've got a deck as well, and who knows? If Yami's theory is correct, I'll get the Game Card as well as help you guys out."
"Then it's settled," said Yami, who right then reverted back to Yugi. "Since we've all got decks, how about we go to Domino City tomorrow after my interview? My Grandpa can help you guys out with your decks too."
"Cool," TK and Sakura said at the same time.
"Anyway, it's about 3 in the morning now," Yugi yawned. "We'd better get back home to sleep. We've got a long day tomorrow."
"Yeah, see you then!" Sakura called as she separated Kero and Patamon and ran toward the hotel. Yugi and TK walked back to their apartment, ready for the day to come.
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To be continued...
There! Chapter Three of this story is done! I'm going to be in China for several weeks for vacation, so please, in your reviews, tell me which of my stories you want me to continue. I've been working hard on 'King of Games', and I'd really appreciate knowing that I'm working on the right stories for you guys. Thanks!
Chapter 3
The time was quite late, as nearly all of the great city of Tokyo was asleep. Nearly. Three teenagers and a digimon, who had only met an hour before, sat in a gazebo at Odaiba Park, talking.
"So, who wants to go first?" asked Yugi.
"I will," said Sakura. "I'm not a normal girl, as you all know. I am really a Card Captor."
"Card Captor?" asked TK.
"What's a Card Captor? Do you go around collecting cards like Duel Monsters or something?" Yugi wondered aloud.
"No," Sakura answered cooly. "I collect these." She held several strange looking cards in front of TK and Yugi. "They're called Clow Cards. All of them are extremely powerful and all are wild and need to be tamed. That's my job. Me and my boyfriend, Li Syaoran, have gone on many adventures to capture all of these cards, until a final judgment day placed me as the owner."
"I see, kind of," TK was still trying to piece everything together.
"But now I realize not all of them have been captured," Sakura continued. "A new one has been discovered. It's called the Game Card, and my friend tells me that it's the ultimate winner."
"Friend?" Yugi questioned.
"She means me," a muffled voice in her bag said. Out popped a small flying yellow bear. "Hi! I'm Kero!"
"Whoa," TK stared at it. "What is this?"
"The search for the Clow Cards began when I was ten," said Sakura. "That was when I opened the ancient mystical book of Clow, and the cards escaped. Kero was the guardian of the cards and came out of the book. He's been helping since this whole thing started."
"You mean to say that all those magical cards were guarded by this guy?" asked Patamon. "He looks like Pikachu!" (A/N: I don't own Pokemon either!)
A vein popped out of Kero's head. "WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME?!"
"I'm just surprised that so much power was protected by a flying teddy bear," Patamon smirked.
"TEDDY BEAR?! Well, better a flying bear than a flying pig," Kero said with his own devilish smirk. Now a vein popped out of Patamon's head. The two began to argue.
"Anyway," Sakura continued, ignoring the digimon and the guardian beast. "To get the Game Card, you must defeat him in a sort of game, like chess or chinese checkers or..."
"...Duel Monsters," TK finished for her. She nodded.
"I can help you there," said Yugi. "I was dubbed the King of Games by winning the Duel Monsters competition at Duelist Kingdom."
"That's not much of a secret, now is it?" TK asked.
"No, but this is," Yugi held up the golden puzzle that hung around his neck. "This is the Millenium Puzzle. It came from ancient Egypt, and holds a great power within it."
"A power?" Sakura asked. "What sort of power?"
"I'm not too sure myself," Yugi smiled. "But I think I'll let my 'other' speak for me."
"'Other'?" TK and Sakura asked.
Just then, the Millenium Puzzle began to glow. Yugi closed his eyes for a second, and when he opened them, they turned from innocent and childlike to mature and more serious. Sakura sensed an immense amount of power coming from the small pyramid.
"Hello, I am Yami," said the new Yugi. TK and Sakura immediately noticed the difference between the two. "I am called that because it means 'darkness'." TK's eyes hardened at the word.
"Were you...evil?" asked Sakura.
"Not at all," Yami smiled. "I was once a Pharoah in Ancient Egypt, who locked away a game that could've destroyed the world. Other than that, I remember nothing."
"You must really want to know about your past, huh?" TK asked. He had calmed down a bit.
"Yes indeed," Yami sighed. "I'm afraid I don't have much of a secret to tell you about."
"Are you kidding?!" laughed Sakura. "Who knew that the world famous Yugi Moto had an alter ego? That's secret enough for me!"
"Sakura, you may want to quiet down," TK whispered in her ear. Sakura nodded and blushed in embarassment.
"Now, Takeru, please tell us your secret," Yami told TK. The blond sighed.
"With all your 'ancient powers' I'm ashamed to say mine are quite recent," TK told them. "My power comes from another world."
"Do tell," Yami and Sakura listened intently.
"In a parallel universe, there is a Digital World, created by data from computers and the dreams of people. When I was eight, I was sent to that world along with my older brother and five other Chosen Children by recieving these." TK held up his digivice. "There, I met my Digimon, Patamon." He turned to Patamon, who was still arguing with Kero.
"Digimon?" asked Sakura, curiously.
"Digital Monster," TK told her. "They are the creatures that live in the Digital World. Anyway, we battled many digimon by allowing our digimon to Digivolve to a more powerful monster using our digivices. They are loyal partners and will do anything to save us. Even be killed," TK looked to the ground, remembering the battle against Devimon. "However, they can be reborn into a new, baby digimon. Eventually, we recieved crests that allowed our digimon to digivolve to an even HIGHER level. These crests represented qualities within our hearts. Mine is Hope. After a while of being stuck in the Digital World, we followed a dark digimon, Myotismon, into the Real World."
"When all of those monsters attacked Tokyo!" Sakura remembered from the news when she was eight.
"Exactly. There, we met the eighth Chosen child, Kari," TK saddened at the name. "With her new crest, Light, we could defeat Myotismon and bring peace once again to both worlds. However, we had to go back to the Digital World to stop a more powerful evil, the Dark Masters. We eventually did, and we had the fight the ultimate evil digimon, Apocalymon. Using the powers of our hearts, we defeated Apocalymon and all was back to normal."
"Sounds like an everlasting game of Duel Monsters," Yami told him.
"Not at all. That's the thinking that lead to our second adventure. Kari and I had to lead a new group of Chosen Children. We had to battle another Chosen that we had never met, who claimed himself to be the digimon emperor. He restricted our Digivolving, so we needed a new way to digivolve. That was armor digivolving, using Metal Digieggs. We beat the Emperor, and he realized the the Digital World was not a game. He joined us and helped battle more evils to the return of Myotismon as MaloMyotismon. From there, everything's gone uphill."
"Wow," Sakura was still taking in all that TK had said. "But what got you so depressed this afternoon?"
"Well, it was Kari," TK told her. "She...was kidnapped in the Digital World earlier today, by a Dark Magician."
Yami's ears perked up. "Dark Magician?"
"Like the one in Duel Monsters, only pure black," said TK. "In a nutshell, Kari got knocked out saving me, he got Kari, faced me, said 'Duel', and left."
"Duel?" asked Sakura. "He wanted to beat you in a game of Duel Monsters or something?"
"I guess," TK shrugged.
"Sakura, you mentioned something about a Game Card?" Yami asked her. Sakura looked at him and nodded.
"I see," Yami smiled. "What exactly does this Game Card do?"
"It challenges everyone it wants to a...game?" Sakura looked at TK. "And losing the game makes you pay the ultimate price."
"Wait, are you saying that Dark Magician is somehow related to the Game Card?" TK asked.
"It's possible," Yami answered. "Either way, it sounds like you'll have to beat the Dark Magician in a duel to get Kari back, am I right?"
"Yeah," TK answered. "Yami, I beg of you, you have to train me!"
"I'll do more than train you, TK," Yami told him. "I'm going to help you improve your Dueling Deck, and I would be honored if you allow me to fight by your side."
"Me too," Sakura told him. "I've got a deck as well, and who knows? If Yami's theory is correct, I'll get the Game Card as well as help you guys out."
"Then it's settled," said Yami, who right then reverted back to Yugi. "Since we've all got decks, how about we go to Domino City tomorrow after my interview? My Grandpa can help you guys out with your decks too."
"Cool," TK and Sakura said at the same time.
"Anyway, it's about 3 in the morning now," Yugi yawned. "We'd better get back home to sleep. We've got a long day tomorrow."
"Yeah, see you then!" Sakura called as she separated Kero and Patamon and ran toward the hotel. Yugi and TK walked back to their apartment, ready for the day to come.
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To be continued...
There! Chapter Three of this story is done! I'm going to be in China for several weeks for vacation, so please, in your reviews, tell me which of my stories you want me to continue. I've been working hard on 'King of Games', and I'd really appreciate knowing that I'm working on the right stories for you guys. Thanks!