Chapter 10-

Yugi vs. Joey:

Part 1

It was morning, and Yugi was just waking up.

Yugi got dressed, and picked the phone off the receiver. He dialed for the operator, and waited for the dial tone to end.

"Hello?" asked a female voice on the other end.

"Yes, can you connect me to a Joey Wheeler, room 506?" asked Yugi.

"One moment please," answered the operator.

"Ehhh," answered an obviously very tired Joey.

"Joey! Get dressed and come over here. Let's have a practice duel, you know, to w-"

Yugi didn't get to finish, because a long snore from Joey's end of the phone interrupted him.

"Joey! Come on! I'll order breakfast!"

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Yugi got off the bed, and answered the door. It was Joey.

"Joey, how'd you get here so fast?" asked Yugi, as Joey entered his room.

"I walked. First things first. Where's breakfast?"

"I have to order it first. You know, I've heard freight trains that weren't as loud as your snoring."

Joey just grinned.

"It takes years a' practice."

As Yugi reached for the phone, it rang. Since Yugi's hand was already three inches from the phone, he answered it immediately.

"Is this Yugi Moto's room?" asked the same voice who connected him with Joey.

"Yes," answered Yugi.

"Your dueling platform has been prepared. You may come down here to duel with Joey Wheeler whenever you're ready."

"Can it wait a little?"

"A half hour tops," replied the woman.

"Thanks," said Yugi, smiling at Joey, "May I hear the breakfast menu?"

Meanwhile, Jr. was sitting in one of the meeting rooms.

"How does this thing work?" he asked himself, fiddling the Millennium Eye in his hands.

"Is it, like, a telescope or something? Or, do you hide it behind the duelist, and it sends signals to your card display counter?"

Jr. was raising it to his eye to look over, when it started glowing. All of a sudden, it flew from Junior's hand, and stuck to his eye.

"What the! Hey, get off!" shouted Jr., trying to pry it from his eye socket.

Then, Jr. felt something surge through him.

"What's this energy I feel? I feel so…powerful."

Jr. smiled a wicked smile.

"He He He. I defianetly think I'm using it right now. Just try to defeat me now, Yugi Moto! Just try!"

Brrrriing! Brrrring!

Back at Yugi's room, Yugi and Joey were just finishing their breakfast of toast and eggs, when the phone rang.

"Hello?" Asked Yugi.

"Yes, your platform is ready. Please contact Mr. Wheeler and head over there now."

"We'll be there right away," said Yugi hanging up.

"C'mon, Joey. We have to go," said Yugi.

"Hold the elevator for me Yug'. I'll be there in a minute." And Joey continued to eat his last piece of toast.

"Don't be too long," warned Yugi.

Joey merely smiled and gave Yugi a thumbs up.

Yugi exited the room and waited outside the doorway to make sure the door locked. Coincidentally, right as the door was two inches from the frame, it stopped, opened wider, and Joey emerged.

"Jeez, Joey. Did you even taste that toast?"

Joey nodded, for his mouth was full. He then swallowed, and then smiled at Yugi.

"Hey Yugi," said Joey as he closed the door, "Race ya to the elevator."

"You're on!"

"Okay, then! One-two-three-go!"

And with that, Joey raced down the hall. Yugi, who had just made sense that Joey took off unfairly, ran down the hall after him. Joey was looking behind him at Yugi, when he crashed into something. Joey was running so fast, he kept going, even after they had collided, and they both ran into the back wall of the open elevator.

"Whoa! Joey, you okay?"

Yugi caught up with Joey, and saw that he was on top of whatever he had crashed into.

"Ouch. Did anyone get a look at its license number?" muttered Joey getting up.

"I would think YOU would have, since YOU caused the accident!" snarled whatever it was that Joey crashed into.

It seemed that Joey ran into another duelist, who had trouble getting up. Joey, on the other hand, was already up, and quite mad.

"Oh, so it's MY fault ya didn't hear me lumbering down da hallway louder then a rocket taking off? It wouldn't a' happened if you took the five seconds it takes to look up and move out of the way!"

At this time, the duelist got up, and Yugi and Joey could see what he looked like. His hair was spiked up, so far up that it drooped slightly.

It was also died green, so it looked like he had long grass poking out of his scalp instead of hair. His arms and fingers were really thin, so that they resembled twigs, and he had frills on the cuffs of his brown denim pants, so that it looked as though his feet were tree roots.

The kid glared at Joey, but just said, "I don't have time for losers like you," and with that, he exited the elevator and went down a different hallway.

"Grrr…" Joey lightened up and grinned at Yugi.

"Beat ya, Yugi!"

Yugi was relieved that Joey was able to control his temper, so he smiled.

"Oh, well. What floor is our platform on?"

"I think da fifth floor," replied Joey.

"Joey, aren't we on the first floor?"

"Yeah. I think we go down, since da first floor is da floor closest to the surface."

"But wouldn't that mean that our duel will be taking place fifty feet below the ground?"

Joey thought this over, and gasped.

"That would be da case. I wonder how they installed an elevator."

"Let's just forget it for now," said Yugi, pushing the fifth floor button, "And hope the air pressure's normal."

The elevator trip lasted two minutes, since only one person got on and off. By the time they reached the fifth floor, Joey burst out the two metallic doors.

"Ahh, finally. That elevator music sounded like a cross between glass shattering and an internet modem."

"I like your comparison, Joey," said Yugi as he got off the elevator.

"Thanks. Now I say we head down this direction."

Yugi and Joey walked about half-way when Yugi asked, "Joey, how did you know to come down this hallway?"

Joey closed his eyes and grinned.

"Cause I have a built in GPS in my brain."

"Are you sure it wasn't the sign that had Vending, ice, and duel platform, all pointing down this hallway?"

Joey stopped grinning and said, "I must a' missed."

But Yugi added, "But they're on either side of this hallway, spaced every two feet from each other."

"Okay, so I might a' peeked at one. Hey, we're here!"

Sure enough, the hallway emptied into a room with a duel platform that was almost too big for the room it was in. The walls of the room were five feet from touching the sides of the platform.

"Well, Yug', I guess we get started."

"Okay, Joey. Let's duel!"