Just Desserts
(Redo)
By Sideshow Tom
"Hey Yugi, get down here, the finals are starting!"
Yugi looked up from his dresser at his friends voice, his contemplation ceasing as he turned and jogged down the stairs. As he emerged into his family room, he could already see Joey, Tristan and Anzu sprawled across the various chairs and couches, the TV glowing in front of them. He plopped down on the only empty seat and stretched out his feet as a commercial for Generic Puffs turned off and a bearded, Caucasian mans face appeared on the screen
"Hello loyal fans are you ready for the conclusion of this exciting final round for the World Championships?"
As fan members screamed in the backround, Yugi smiled at the thought of the coming battle. They had been watching the World Championships since they had begun a month ago, and he must say, it had been a very exciting year for the event. There were plenty of new upstart duelists, old enemies and friends, and plenty of action. But as his thoughts continued to wander, the announcer continued
"Here is the ending to the exciting duel between our two finalists. The first is the Rock Hard Rumbler, heres…..Christian Mason of America, and against him, the Dragon Duelists, Goro Inogashira of Japan! Lets duel!"
Mason: 1600,Inogashira: 1450
Inogashira currently has 2 set cards, Masked Dragon (1400/1100) and Armored Dragon Level 3 (1200/900) on the field, both in attack mode. Mason currently has 3 set cards and the Giant Soldier of Stone in face up defense mode. It is currently Inogashira's turn.
"Well Mason, I think we should finish this duel up right now. I'll set one monster and flip up the trap card Ceasefire! This flips up every defense mode monster face up, and inflicts 500 points of damage to you for every effect monster on the field flipped up in this way! So I flip up my Red Eyes Black Chick and you go down to 1100 life points!" A huge scroll of paper appeared on the field, which both players were forced to sign, and Inogashira's card flipped up, revealing a huge yellow egg, which cracked open to reveal a mottled black dragon with glowing red eyes.
Red Eyes Black Chick: 800/500
"HA! That pitiful card! You'll need to do better than that you! We whupped your butts in WWII and I'll do it again! So now, I'll sacrifice my monster to summon up my ultimate card, the Earth Emperor-Granmada! Using his effect, I destroy your little baby dragon, before it can turn into that beastly Red Eyes Black dragon of yours!" Mason grinned, his eyes flashing as his monster disappeared and a towering, iron creature appeared. The beast was made of yellow sandstone and a purple cape whipped around its gigantic fists. A single red, glowing ruby was centered in its huge, golden belt, and it activated to fire at Ryu's egg, its shell exploding and yolk splattering all over its controllers face.
Earth Emperor-Granmada: 2400/1000
"Well my man, looks like you're the one with egg on your face! Now my monster, destroy his pitiful Masked Dragon!"
Mason's huge monster rose its gigantic fists and swung them down, obliterating Inogashira's creature and decimating his life points.
Mason: 1100, Ryu: 450
"Grr. Well at least you've activated my dragons effect. Now I can special summon one dragon type with 1500 or less attack from my deck. And I choose
Element Dragon in attack mode!
Element Dragon: 1500/1200
A muscular red dragon appeared in front of Inogashira, its thick, tangled red hair flailing around its horned head, its yellowing claws encrusted with grime.
"What's that thing gonna do? You know its too weak to destroy my emperor!"
"Not for long Mason, because now I equip it with the magic card Axe of Despair, giving it an extra 1000 attack points! So now, I destroy your monster and using Element dragons special ability, I attack you directly again!"
Mason-3900, Inogashira: 450
"And there you have it ladies and gentleman, in the end, Goro Inogashira is our winner!"
As the applause in the bacround died down and the commercials began again, Yugi heard the doorbell ring suddenly and he jumped to get it. On the front porch was a large box, with "Yugi Moto and Joey Wheeler" stamped across it. In the box where the senders address usually was, there was merely a ring with a broken ring inside of it. Yugi lugged the box inside and dropped it down, the insides rattling. Joey leapt up to open it, and ripped up the contents to find two brand, spanking new duel disks, one in night black and the other in a deep, blood red. Also, there was a video tape which Yugi proceeded to pop into the VCR. As the buzzing static cleared from the screen, two red circles appeared, one broken and surrounded by the other, complete one. As the logo cleared away, a mans face appeared. The man looked to be in his mid-20's, with a strong chin, night black hair slicked back, tanned skin, and a small goatee. He smiled, flashing his white teeth before continuing;
"Hello Duelists! I am Harold Oz, head of Oz Corp, and I would like to congratulate you! Any who have received an addressed duel disk are hereby invited to my Duel Monsters tournament held on my private island! Thousands of duelists will be there, and the finalists will win a cash prize of 1 Million dollars, in addition to being on national television, a truckload of cards (their choice of course!) and other promotional giveaways! I'd like to explain the rules to you before you arrive here.
1.) Each player will begin a duel with 8000 life points
2.) The Battle city rules for Tributes apply
3.) Field cards may be played, and affect monsters attack and defense points as normal
4.) No God cards will be allowed
5.) Direct Attacks on your opponent are allowed
6.) With each Duel Disk comes 10 Card Slots. When you are victorious in a duel, your opponent must give you their rarest card. Each players rarest cards will be recorded in my databases, and when you have collected the rarest cards from 10 duelists, you will continue on to the Final rounds of the tournament!
7.) The winner of the tournament will be able to walk away with every rare card they have won, the 1 million dollar prize money, 100 cards of their choice, and the rank of the most powerful duelist ever!
"Now that you all know the rules, here is the time. In one week, you will report to Domino Airport, where luxury Oz Corp Jets will pick up all duelists and transport them to my private island. Please be at the airport by 1:00 pm, so that we might start the tournament the next day at high noon. If for any reason you are unable to make it at this time, please contact me, and I will give you the coordinates for our tournament and you will be left to your own devices to get their on time. So, prepare your decks, and prepare yourselves for the tournament of your lives!"
As the fuzzy static reappeared on the screen, Yugi and Joey picked up their individual duel disks, Yugi choosing the black one and Joey the red. They also picked up the 10 glass cases they found inside, labeled from 1-10.
"Whoa Yugi, what do you think?" asked Joey, admiring his newfound hardware.
"I dunno Joey, I think it sounds like a fun time, and maybe for once we can avoid getting caught up in some worldwide conflict. But having no god cards will make it a lot harder…"
"But a lot easier for guys like me without them!" yelled Joey, pumping his fists in air and doing the trademark, Anime smile/thumbs up.
Well I decided to Re-do Just Desserts, because I had done way too many chapters of just random dueling, without thinking about it at all. So now I am going to restart it with a better plot, and some of the things from the original. I hope you all enjoy it!
