A Spiderman Story
Chapter 15 - Learning the Game

--- Continued Flashback---

Duke flicked though Yugi's portfolio of his photos of Spiderman, while Yugi sat opposite him in his office. Yugi looked at his desk that had some different coloured dice on it that had some kind of symbols on them, a board and a load of plans for it. Suddenly, Yugi looked up when Duke spoke again.

"They're crap, crap, crap, mega-crap," Duke said as he flicked though it. "I'll give you a 5,000 yen for them."

"That seems little low," Yugi replied.

"Take them some where else then," Duke said before giving Yugi back his folder and then picking up the phone. Yugi was about to get up when Duke put the phone down. "Sit down! Give me those." he flicked though them again and looked up at Yugi again. "I'll give you 10,000. That's the standard freelance fee." he then turned to his Editor-In-Chief, who had spiky Blackish-blue hair and blue eyes. "Mako, tear up page one and run that photo instead." Duke handed Mako a photo form Yugi's portfolio.

"What's the headline?" Mako asked his boss.

"The Headline is: SPIDERMAN, hero or menace? Exclusive Daily Budge photos."

"Menace?" a confused Yugi replied. "He was protect that armoured car from…"

"I'll tell you what, you take the pictures, and I'll make up the headlines. Is that okay with you?"

"Yes."

"Good," Duke said before moving his dice, board and plans of his desk and onto the table behind him.

"What is that?" Yugi asked. "A new game?"

"It's mine, it's called Dungeon Dice monsters, it's going to be the next big thing," Duke replied. "Anyway, it's none of your business!" Duke wrote on a piece of paper and gave it to Yugi. "Give this to the girl up front, she will see that you you'll get paid."

"But…I'd like a job," Yugi replied.

"No jobs, free-lance, best thing in the world for a guy your age, believe me. Then maybe if you take more pictures of that web crawler then maybe I'll take them off your hands. But I never said you had a job!" Duke said as he guided Yugi out of his office. "Now go out and get me more photos!"

What Yugi got out off the office, he immediately went to the girl sitting behind the desk in front of Duke's office. The girl had long light brown hair and brown eyes, but see had glasses on to improve her poor eyesight.

"Hi."

"Oh hello," she said as she suddenly realised Yugi was standing there.

"Mr Devlin told me to give this to you," Yugi said as he gave her the pay slip that Duke had given him.

"Oh! Welcome to the Daily Bugle then! My name's Serenity."

"Thank you, I'm Yugi Moto…I'm a photographer."

"Yeah, I can see that," Serenity replied as she looked at Yugi's camera around his neck.

---End Flashback---

"Ha, ha, ha!" Mai laughed so hard she fell down. "How stupid was that! Oh, I'm Yugi Moto, I'm a photographer, why else would I carry a camera around with me!"

"Hey, it's not funny!" Yugi yelled as he stormed out of his apartment through the outside door, climbed up the wall and sat on the top of the building.

One Mai recovered from the laugher, she went to join Yugi on the roof.

"Oh, come on Yugi, you've got to admit it was a little funny."

"Yeah, I guess," Yugi replied, cracking open a little smile.

"So what next?"

"Well, later that night…"

---Flashback---

"Okay Yugi, now all you do is place the monster card you want to play down on the field and say something like 'I summon the…' and say the monsters name," Seto told Yugi as they played a friendly game of duel monsters in their apartment.

"Seto, I maybe a beginner, but I'm not stupid!" Yugi replied before laying a card down on the field. "I summon The Dark Magician!"

"Whoa, where do you get that?"

"It was my father's, I got it when he…died. Along with the Dark Magician Girl, which belonged to my mother."

"I'm sorry Yugi…but that still doesn't beat Blue Eyes White Dragon!" Seto said as he put the card on the field.

"What's that?"

"This Yugi is one of the most powerful and rarest cards in duel monsters. There's only 4 in the world."

"And you have one!"

"Yeah, soon to be two!"

"What? How?"

"I know someone who has one and soon I'll have all 4 Blue Eyes White Dragons. (Evil laugher) ha, ha ha!"

"Okay Seto, don't be such a drama queen."

"I'm serious…anyway, my Blue Eyes beats your Magician. I win, again!"

"Aw, darn you Seto Kaiba. Why do you always win?"

"Cause I'm the best and you suck at this!"

"I swear Kaiba," Yugi said as he stood up. "That, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but one day, I WILL BEAT YOU AT DUEL MONSTERS!"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Seto replied as he made a 'W' shaped by putting hands together and making his thumbs touch together. "Listen, there's this tournament coming up, do you want to sign up with me?"

"Umm…"

"I've been teaching Tea how to play and she's signing up as well."

"Tea?"

"Yeah…we've kind of been in contact since we finished school."

"Oh…sure, I'll go."

"You'd better get practicing then!"

---End Flashback---

"How times have changed!" Mai said.

"Oh yeah," Yugi replied.

"Did you enter the tournament? What was it like?"

"Mai, it was a day I'll never forget…"

Author's notes: What happens at the tournament? Is it to do with Spiderman or Yugi? Maybe both? Find out next chapter on A Spiderman Story

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P.S. It was very difficult with money in this chapter. Because in the movie they have dollars, but this story is set in Japan. So I have to transfer dollars into Yen. I know it's not the exact amount that was in the movie, but I just want to know whether Duke paid Yugi right. If you could tell me, that would be brilliant.