Sdrive: Well, here we go with the second chapter of Sky Top Duelists. I'm not going to say too much about it except that it will probably be yet another long chapter. Well, I hope you all enjoy it.
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Sdrive: Actually, I take all ownership over Sprite and Kai, they are my own creations. Hajime, Nine and Dominid are all based on others.
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Kai and Sprite walked into Sprites house. Sprite's mom was sitting on the couch reading a magazine. She looked up and was slightly startled. "Oh, Kai, I didn't realize you were coming over today." She noticed that Kai didn't ackowledge her and that he seemed pretty depressed. "Kai? Are you ok?" she asked worridly.
"Ricardo, Kai's landlord, kicked him out and sold all his stuff while he was at school today, he's homeless now," Sprite explained.
Sprite's mom was shocked, "Oh Kai. I'm so sorry. What is he going to do?"
"I told him he could stay here tonight so that he didn't have to sleep out on the streets."
"Oh of course," Sprite's mom said. "I'll go get the guest room ready." She walked out to go get the room ready for Kai.
Sprite led Kai to the couch and they sat down together. Kai just sat there looking at his feet, completly depleated of faith. Sprite watched over Kai and just felt so hopeless not being able to actually help him. All she could do was help give him a place to stay for a little while, but other than that there was nothing she could do. "Thank you." She looked around and then looked back at Kai and realized that it was him that had said thank you.
"What for?" Sprite asked.
"For helping me keep what little faith I had."
"What do you mean by that?"
"By knowing that I can keep faith in my friends, I know that I have a bit of faith left."
"Kai," Sprite said quietly. She just stared at him, and couldn't help but feel sorry for him. She put her arm around his shoulder and he looked up at her. His green eyes, they were no longer sparked with energy. They looked lost, as though he was someone entirly different.
"I'm sorry to have to put you in this position," Kai said to her.
"It's no problem," Sprite said reasuringly. "I would do anything for you."
"Thank you," he said.
Sprite's mom came back into the room, "the rooms ready."
Kai looked over at her, "thank you." He stood up and Sprite got up with him. "I need have to get some sleep, I'm really stressed. Thank you for your kind hospitality."
"It's not a problem," Sprite's mom said. Kai headed off into the guest room. He sat down and soon realized that he only had his school clothes, picture, and Duel Monsters cards. He sighed, took of his hat, jacket, and belt. He placed them on the floor, climbed into the bed and shut the light off.
Sprite was in the other room explaining the situation to her mom when the phone rang. Her mom went and got it. "Hello? Oh, yes she's right here. It's for you honey," she said handing over the phone to Sprite.
"Hello?" Sprite asked.
"It's me Domid, Nine, Hajime and I have urgent news that you have to hear," Domid said.
"So do I, and I'm pretty sure mine's more important right now, put me on speaker phone."
"Ok, I'm on speaker phone, but I don't think that anything could be more important than this."
"Kai's homeless," Sprite said quietly.
"What was that? I couldn't quite hear you," Nine's voice said through the phone.
"I think she said that Kai is homeless," Domid's voice said. "But that can't be right, he has until at least tomorrow."
"No, you heard me right," Sprite said. "Ricardo went and sold all of Kai's things that where in his apartment and kicked him out. He's over here at my house, he went to bed."
"Oh man, I can't beleive that Ricardo did that," Domid said.
"I can," Hajime's voice said. "He's always hated Kai, and this was the perfect excuse to finally get him out of his face."
"What are we going to do?" Nine's voice asked.
"I'm going to let him stay here until we can find a place for him to stay," Sprite said.
"If you ever need a break I can lend my house to him for a while," Hajime's voice said.
"Mine too," Domids voice said.
"And mine," Nine's voice came in. "My parent's love Kai, think he's the best kid on two feet.
"Your parents think that about everyone," Hajime's voice said.
"Yeah, but Kai worked for my parents over the summer. That's why they love him so much."
"He's got you there Hajime," Domid's voice said.
"Hey, if it's alright with you guys, I have to get some sleep. It's been a pretty stressful hour. It's still pretty light out but this whole thing has shot my nerves. I'm going off to take a nap. We have the day off tomorrow so I suggest we all have an emergency meeting."
"Agreed," Hajime said.
"My house again?" Nine asked.
"That's our best bet," Domid said. "It's closest out of all our houses."
"Ok, tomorrow at about 10:00," Sprite said. They said their goodbyes and hung up. Sprite told her mom goodnight and she went to go lay down in her bed. "Poor Kai," she said to herself as she was laying down. "I sure hope he gets through this ok. I'll do anything I can to help." Her eyes slowly shut and she fell off to sleep.
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Sprite woke up to a the sound of water running through the pipes. She looked over at her clock and saw that it read 5:45. She looked out the window and was astonished to find that it was dark out. It was normally still light out at 5:45. She looked at the clock to see that it was 5:45 in the morning. "I can't beleive I actually slept throughout the night." She stood up, stretched out, and went to go figure out where the water was coming from. She found her answer from the other side of the bathroom door.
She went into her white kitchen and poured herself a bowl of cerial. She took out the milk and started pouring that in too. She sat down and slowly began eating. After she was done she was still hungry so she poured an other bowl. While eating her second bowl she heard the water stop and heard the bathroom door open right as the clock turned 6:02. 3 minutes later Kai came out in his school uniform.
"Kai, what are you doing in your school uniform?" She asked.
"It's all I have left for clothing, all my other clothes were at the apartment," he said.
"Oh yeah," she said remember that all he got back was his picture. "Well, we can go get you some new clothes with the money that was supposed to go to the apartment. I'm sure the others won't mind. At least you don't have to use it for food now."
"Yeah," Kai said. He sat down next to Sprite and poured himself a bowl of cereal. He poured in his milk and sat there and ate quietly. After he was done he just continued to sit there.
"We're having an emergency meeting at Nines to discuss how this is all going to work."
"I see," Kai said, although he didn't interested. He sounded lost, as if his mind was blank.
Sprite was really down now. She put her arm around Kai, he looked at her and she just smiled, "Everything will be fine," she said. "We'll help you get through this, I promise."
For the first time in hours Kai actually smiled. "Thank you. You all are the best friends I could ever have."
"Anything for our best friend," she said sweetly.
The morning went by rather uneventful. Sprite and Kai dueled for a bit but she could tell that he wasn't really into the match. He was making sloppy moves and didn't have his mind focused on the game. They stopped after a while and just sat watching tv, but she could sense that he was mostly staring off into space. 10:00 finally came around and it was time for them to leave. They left and headed off towards Nine's house. When they got there Nine's mom answered the door.
"Oh, hello Kai, hello Sprite. I hate to tell this to you but Nine's not here right now."
This got even Kai's attention, "I thought that we were supposed to be meeting here," he said.
"Nine called saying something had come up and he couldn't make the meeting. He asked me to call you two but when I did you two had already left. I'm sorry."
"Do you know when he will be back?" Sprite asked,
"I don't, but he told me to tell you to wait for a call."
"Oh, alright," Kai said. "Well, I guess we should get going then. We have some things we have to do."
"Ok, I'll see you all later then," Nine's mom said. Kai and Sprite left to go get some clothes. Sprite and Kai had a good time dressing Kai up in funny outfits. They spent about an hour at the clothing store before they decided to get some lunch. They went to a small burger stand where they could chose to sit inside or outside. The decided to sit outside since the wheather was beautiful and the sun was shining brightly. They each ordered burgers and then shared a Hot Fudge Sunday. Sprite managed to lighten Kai's mood. At one point he had said that this was the best time he'd have since he moved into the apartment. They pulled out their decks and started dueling. Kai actually ended up winning by a landslide, something that didn't normally happen when he faced Sprite. He could win but he was never able to wipe her out.
They headed home and when they got inside Kai was smiling and laughing, just like he used to. Kai changed his clothes and then they decided to play a board game. After about an hour no one was really wining the game so they decided to give it up and move onto something else. At 5:37 the phone rang. They were currently in the middle of a movie playing on the tv, they had a blue blanket around them and were laughing. Kai bent down and picked up the phone from the coffee table and handed it to Sprite.
"Hello?" Sprite asked into the phone.
"Sprite?" The voice said on the other end.
"Well, if it isn't Nine who decided to bail out on us this morning," Sprite said rather annoyed. This got Kai's attention and he looked over to watch her.
"Listen, I think we have figured out how to help Kai. Come over to my place ASAP."
"Are you going to actually be there this time?" Sprite asked.
"Yes, you have to come now!"
"Alright, we'll be right there." She clicked of the phone and got up. "Nine said he's figured out a way to help you. He wants us to get there now."
"Well, why not, we're only missing the best part of the movie," Kai said.
"Oh shut up and come on," Sprite said giggling a bit. Kai got up, put on his coat and hat, decided to attatch his belt with his deck and he was ready. They left and walked started to head over to Nine's house. "I wonder what they did to get this startlign relavation," Sprite wondered out loud.
"Well, if it's good enough it might just save me," Kai said, a determined sound in his voice. They walked in silence up until they saw Nine's house in sight. "Well, let's go." They knocked on the door and Nine's mom opened it again.
"Looks like you caught him this time," she said smiling. "They're down in the basement," she said. They said thank you and walked down to the basement where Nine's room was. They turned left and saw Domid, and Hajime on the couch and Nine on a tan recliner. Kai noticed a manella folder on the coffee table.
"Sit down," Nine said to them. They did as they were told and sat on the floor. "Ok, first I think I stand for all three of us when I say I'm sorry for ditching the 10:00 meeting, but something really important came up."
"What could be more important than a meeting about how to help our best friend?" Sprite asked.
"How about the way to help him?" Hajime said.
"What are you talking about?" Kai asked.
"We went into that large card shop to pick you up some Magician's Force booster packs to try to lift your spirit," Domid explained. "And then we learned that the store was an official site to hold qualifications for this years World Championship Duel Monsters Compition. Problem was they were about to start and if we wanted to sign up we had to do it then."
"You ditched us for cards?" Sprite asked furiously.
"Yes," Hajime chuckled. "But there's more to the story. We learned that the winner of the World Championship Compition would be awarded 50,000 dollars."
"50 grande!" Kai and Sprite both said at the same time.
"Yeah, and along with that the winner also gets some secret cards or something like that, they weren't too specific," Domid said. "But we decided right then if we could get into this tournament and win it, we could get tickets to the World Championships and have a chance for the 50 grande."
"First place winner was to be awarded his ticket, and two more for friends," Nine explained. "Second place was given their ticket and one extra for one of their friends. Take a guess at who got first and second places?"
"No way, you're kidding me!" Kai said.
"Nope," Nine said. "I ended up winning first place, and Hajime got second."
"Wait, Hajime got second? That surprises me, how did you beat him Nine? I mean, I know you are a great duelist and all but Hajime's pretty tough and you've always had problems defeating him in the past."
"Do you remember that peice of mail I received last night?"
"Yeah," Sprite said. "Hey, is that what you had originally called for last night?"
"Yes," Nine said. "About 3 months ago I had entered a contest to win a rare card. I didn't know what the card would be but it seemed like a pretty big thing. So I entered and in order to win I had to take this huge Duel Monsters Test and send it into the Industrial Illusions, the place that created the game. And Apparently I won it, because the card inside was," he pulled a card out of his deck and held it up for Sprite and Kai to see. They both gasped.
"A Blue Eyes White Dragon!" They said simultaniously.
"Yes, one of the only four ever made. Remember that huge fire in America that happend about a year ago?"
"Yeah I remember that," Kai said. "Wait a second. If your talking about the fire I think your talking about, that was the fire where the guy who lived there, lost his home, along with the four Blue Eyes White Dragons he had spent millions of dollars getting."
"Exactly. Industrial Illuisons realized that they couldn't keep the game alive without the Blue Eyes so they decided to recreate the four that were lost in the blaze. Then they sent tests out to four different countries, Japan, America, China, and Egypt. I pulled off the highest score for Japan and won the Blue Eyes that was sent out for us. Guess who one the American Blue Eyes?"
"Logic says that it's probably not possible but chances are, the guy who lost the original four," Sprite said.
"Yup," Domid said. "Surprisingly enough he had the highest test scores out of all the Americans and won the Blue Eyes. It's also rumored that he's going to the World Championships."
"Wouldn't doubt it," Kai said. "So, any Idea who got the other two?"
"It didn't announce the names of the other holders," Domid explained. "The only reason they mentioned that he won it again, was because it was such a weird twist of fate. However they don't reveal his name."
"Well, most likely they'll all be at the tournament," Nine said. "Hopefully I can play them for the right to win the Blue Eye's. With my Dragon deck, those Blue Eyes would kick ass."
"So, are we all going to the World Championships?" Sprite asked.
"Yup," Domid said.
"The Tournament begins next week and runs for about a full week," Hajime said. "It's being on that large dueling island. You know, the one with the fameous Sky Top Dueling Arena. The one that gets raised into the sky so that you can see the whole Island from up top. However, only finalists in the tournament are allowed to enter the Sky Top Dueling Arena. There the final 8 players square off for the Championship. If we practice all week, and buy new packs and improve our decks to the best of our abilities, we could stand a very good chance. We have Nine's Blue Eyes White Dragon which will help us alot."
"If all five of us make it to the finals then we have the best bets of winning the whole thing, and if we do, we can give you the money," Domid said.
"Whoever wins out of us, can keep the championship," Nine said. "But the money goes to Kai."
"Thank you guys, all of you," Kai said as he looked around the room at his friends.
"Anytime," Nine said. "With my two tickets I bring along Sprite and Kai."
"And with my extra ticket I bring along Domid," Hajime said.
"How did you fare anyway Domid?" Kai asked.
"4th place actually," Domid said. "I could have won too, I had just brought out my Thousand Eyes and assimilated his Archfiend Soldier. I could have attacked him dirrectly for the game but he pulled the Ring of Destruction and Barrel Behind the Door combo and took out the last of my life points. I had a Seven Tools face down but I didn't have enough life points to activate it."
"Well, at least we know you have a fighting chance," Sprite said.
"I'm the one who has the least chance of winning," Kai said. "My deck has some good cards in it but ever since Ricardo my money has been sucked up right into his bank account. I haven't been able to really get any new cards." Suddenly 5 Magicians Force booster packs were tossed to Kai.
"Those are the 'we are trying to make you feel better' booster packs," Hajime said. "You don't have to pay us back for those. We'll suport you card wise until the tournament and if we win it, you can just pay us back then. If you don't win, don't feel too inclined to pay us back. Just do it if you can.
"Thanks again guys," Kai said. He looked at his friends again. "Well, since the finals are being held in the Sky Top Dueling Area, and we have to make it to the finals to win, I think we should have getting to the Sky Top Dueling Arena our main goal until we are in the finals. We should think up some name for our selves."
"The Mighty Morphing Dueling Rangers?" Domid sugessted. Due to his suggestion he was hit in the head with a pillow by Hajime.
"Code-name Save Kai?" Nine asked.
"Boo!" Sprite said.
"Hey I tried," Nine said.
"No, I was thinking going more along with our goal," Kai said. "I was thinking, Sky Top Duelists."
"That's not too bad," Hajime said.
"It's actually got a kinda nice ring to it," Domid agreed.
"I like it," Nine said.
"I guess that settles it," Sprite said.
"So from now on, we are known as The Sky Top Duelists," Kai said.
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Sdrive: alright, and there was another chapter. Told you all it would be up by tonight. Well I realize I don't have any reviews but I still decided to post this chapter now anyway. You can probably expect another chapter or two to be coming along sometime this week. So, just incase anyones wondering. 1. There is no Kaiba Corp, Sennen Items, or Industrial Illisions, in this. I just didn't want to say, 'Konami sent out a test," so instead I kept it with just Industrial Illisions. 2. This will have Duel Disks in it, if you read the theme song you would know that. It's based as if it were regular everyday people going to a World Championship but it's sorta futuristic. Especiall the Sky Top Dueling Arena. But there will be Duel Disks, just not anything made from Kaiba Corp. 3. Sprite and Nine are nicknames. If you notice the favorite card of one of the Characters is Raging Flame Sprite, so let's all become Rocket Scientists and try to figure this out. Nine actually isn't as easy to understand. You were all probably thinking, "who would name their kid Nine?" well, who would name their kid Yugi either but thats besides the point. Nine is based off a really good friend of mine named Josh. His last name is Nine. So In the story his nickname is his last name. Almost like how everyone calls Seto Kaiba, Kaiba. 4. The Blue Eyes are as rare here as they are in the show. Ok, I think that covers any reviewers who might have had questions. Ok, Well, I'm gonna go watch Anime now, it's SAN Saturday Anime Night. Power to the Hikari's.
P.S. Hold the phones, I just actually noticed that it finally came up and there is a review from Reaver of Heaven so there fore I will respond to my first reviewer ever.
Reaver of Heaven: Yup, at first I didn't understand what you meant and when I re-read it I realized, oh yeah, it just went and got ten times worse. Actually in all honesty, I started to depress myself writing that chapter lol. But hopefully it all became better for you. Thanks for reviewing, being as though you are my first reviewer-throws him a Bakura Plushy- there ya go.
Power to the Hikari's