Sdrive: Meh, nothing much to say other than thank you for all the kind reviews you're giving. It's really rewarding when you get so many nice reviews, it makes you really want to go on and continue.
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Kai slowly awoke to the morning light shining on his face. Tiredly he opened his eyes and realization dawned on him as he realized that he had fallen asleep on the chair. He looked out the window but quickly turned away for the sunlight was shining right in his face. He looked down and noticed that there was a blanket covering him up. He smiled and slowly stood up.
His other senses soon started up, he heard a sound coming from the bathroom and realized that someone was in the shower. There was no one else in the room so he knew that it was either Sprite or the guest they were supposed to be sleeping with. He noticed that both beds where a mess so the other room mate had to have been in there, whether or not it was them in the shower was something different. Just then he smelt something that seemed familiar. He soon distinguished it as coffee and turned around to see a coffee pot on and half a pot of coffee.
He noticed a piece of paper on the next to the coffee pot. He walked over to it and read it. "Coffee" was all it said. "No, you must be kidding," Kai said to the piece of paper, "I thought it was Orange Juice." He didn't recognize the handwriting so took it to be the mysterious room guest that had written the note, if you could even call it that.
He wasn't sure if Sprite drank coffee but he knew that he would rather have some tea when they went to the cafe. He sat down on his chair and flipped through the on board tv chanles. Most of it was advertisments for the shops on the ship. Sighing out of boredom he finally chose a channel and stuck with it. He watched it for ten minutes until the door to the bathroom opened up. He side glanced and saw Sprite coming out with a red shirt and blue jeans on. Her hair was still slightly damp but for the most part straight.
"Hey," She said to him as she walked over to her bag next to the bed she slept in.
"Yo," Kai responded as he watched her pull out her deck and place it in her pocket. "So, did you see the mystery room guess?"
"Nope. Woke up and saw that the bed next to me had been used and was currently vancant."
"Late nighter and early starter," Kai said as he watched his comercials.
"Well, the shower is yours if you want it," Sprite said.
Kai shrugged and got up, walked over to his bag and picked out some clothes. He walked into the bathroom and began his shower. The hot water felt good running over his body. It seemed rather relaxing and quite enjoyable. He finished up a few minutes later, dried himself off, and walked out to see Sprite in the chair watching the tv.
"Who gave you permission to sit in my chair and watch my commercials?" Kai joked.
"I did," Sprite joked along. "So, you ready to go?"
"Almost," Kai said. He picked up his belt and snapped it on. He grabbed his coat and hat and put them on as well. "Now I'm ready," he said. They walked out of the room and wondered whether or not they should wake the others.
"They might already be up," Sprite said looking at the door."
"Maybe, I say we just go down and have quiet breakfast," Kai said. Sprite nodded so they walked down the hall and took the elevator to the lobby. They waited a few moments before the elevator opened up and they stepped out into the lobby. They were suprised at how full it was with other people.
"I guess we can skip out on the quiet breakfast," Sprite joked.
"At least there will be three less people," Kai said annoyed looking around. He shrugged and they walked across the lobby towards where the cafe was. They went through the buffet line and picked out whatever they wanted to eat. Sprite was having some cereal and milk and Kai had just picked out a bagel and cream cheese. They walked through the cafe and found a small table. They sat put their stuff down and Sprite sat on the chair while Kai went to go grab a mug, and some hot tea. He returned shortly and sat down across from her.
Kai brouht back Sprite a plastic spoon while he used a plastic knife to smear the creeme cheese on his bagel. He waited for his tea to cool down before he added a bit of Sprite's milk to it. They stayed quiet for a while and just stared at the other duelists that were out and about. Wondering what kind of decks they might have to face and wondering how they would beat them.
Sprite finally broke the silence, "Looks like there are more people starting to come out."
"You're right, it's getting louder and there are more people here now," Kai observed. He took another bite out of his bagel and stared at his tea. Thoughts of how his life used to be before he learned about the tournament flooded his minds. He couldn't get over Ricardo selling all his stuff, and the fact that all his friends had banned together to help him out. He stayed quiet for a little longer before he looked back up again.
He noticed Sprite looking around and couldn't help but think that there was something different about her. 'We've been friends for so long, and now she doesn't seem the same,' he thought to himself. "Hey Sprite?"
"Yeah?" Sprite said turning to him.
"I've just been wondering, you've been, well, I don't know how to say it. Acting different than usual I guess is how I want to put it."
"Have I?" she asked looking slightly confused. "Well, I guess I have been feeling a bit different lately. Sometimes, I feel just so full of joy, and other times, I feel, well, empty. As if there is something missing."
"I feel like that too sometimes. It's as if there is a part of you missing that you never knew you had, right?"
"Yeah, that's exactly how it feels," Sprite said wondering how Kai knew how she felt.
"Well..." said someone from behind Sprite. She gave a bit of a jump, and turned back to see Nine right behind her, "...maybe you need to get a boyfriend," he finished.
"I don't know about me," Sprite said, "But I know that you are going to need a doctor in about 5 seconds."
"What?" he asked sounding perfectly innocent. "Should I have made myself better known?""
"Making yourself better known would have allowed you to live longer," Sprite said irratible.
"Guess your not a morning person," Nine said as he tossed a can to Kai. Kai caught it while Nine pulled a nearby chair towards the table, spun it so that he could sit in it and sat down. He tossed a can from behind his back towards Sprite and she caught it.
"What are these for?" Kai asked, "and where are Domid and Hajime?"
"They're coming, they're just getting breakfast. As for the cans, well, oh here they are!" Nine said as Domid and Hajime came up to them. "Domid had some waffles stacked on his plate while Hajime was holding a bagel and creeme cheese."
"Great minds think alike," Kai said as Hajime sat down.
"Didn't really feel like anything else," Hajime said as he saw a can coming right at him. He brought up his hand and barely caught it before it hit him in the face.
"Fast reflexes," Nine said as he handed a the last can to Domid.
"Not going to through it at his face?" Hajime asked.
"I wouldn't want him getting hurt," Nine said grinning.
"The same could be said for how we feel about you," Sprite said, "And yet I see a trip to the doctors coming your way real fast."
"Chill out, you got free soda didn't you?" Nine said. "Anyway, this is a toast for good luck," he opened his can while the others all tilted their cans towards Nine and opened them. Nothing happened so they brought them back towards them. "You can't say that you thought I had shook them before giving them to you can you?"
"You've tried to find an excuse to die before," Sprite said with a hint of annoyance mixed with a little laughter.
"This is a toast, for the Sky Top Duelists," He said holding up his can in the middle.
The others looked at each other and sighed, "To the Sky Top Duelists," they said feeling it was kind of weird toasting themselves with the name they had come up with themselves.
They ate their breakfast and tried to figure out what they would do from there. "We could go catch another movie," Kai said. "That will basically bring us to around 11:00. From there we will only have to wait one hour or so until we disembark."
"I wanted to check out some of the shops," Sprite said. "I thought I saw a cool necklace on one of those commercials."
"Oh yes," Kai said sarcastically, "Let me pull five hundred dollars out of my pocket and I'll go buy you that necklace."
They all chuckled and then Hajime spoke up, "Looking through the shops isn't such a bad idea."
"Really?" Domid asked. "How come?"
"If not in the shops, then at least in one of the vendors there are bound to be some low priced packs for the tournament."
"Oh, yeah," Kai said looking down. "I guess we could go check out some shops."
"Alright, sounds like a plan," Nine said. With that they walked through the lobby and window shopped for a bit. "This shop looks promising," Nine said as he walked into it. Everyone but Kai followed. Something had caught his eye.
He looked a bit to the right, a little further down, and saw a man wearing one of the ship's crew outfits looking nervous near a closed vending stand. Kai walked over to the man to see what was wrong. As he approached the man he noticed that it seemed as though the man was looking for something. "Excuse me," he said to the man.
The man looked up, "I'm busy," he said hurriedly.
"I noticed, I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help you?"
The man looked up with a bit of hope on his face, "Yes, yes there is. I misplaced my keys and I need to hurry and find them or else my very job could be at stake."
"On no, I'll help you find them," Kai said instantly looking down at the ground trying to spot the keys."
"There are three of them, two are normal sized keys where as the last one is small. It opens a lock so that I can get into this vending stand."
Kai kept looking, he even went a bit further off but couldn't see anything. "I can't see them," he said.
"Oh man, I'm in for it. I've had bad luck since I started. My boss is supposed to come and check on me today to see how I'm doing. He's really angry because yesterday I locked the keys inside and he had the only other key to get in there."
"Do you think that maybe you locked it inside again?"
"No, because he got it out for me at the end of the day and gave it back to me. He told me one more screw up and I'm done." Kai looked down feeling bad for the poor guy when suddenly he perked up. "Do you think you might have just left it in your room?"
"It's a possibility. But I can't run back and get it."
"I'll do it for you. I'll be as quick as I can."
"I'm so going to get in trouble for this but I have no other choice. It's C-133," the man said tossing Kai his key card.
"I'll be back soon," Kai said running off.
"You need to go through the crew entrance in order to get there!" the man called off as Kai ran down the hall.
Kai ran until he found a door that said "Crew Members Only Beyond This Point," He slid the key through and the door clicked open for him. He looked around and then ran through the door. Luckily no one was in the hall. He looked at the closest door number and discovered it to be room number C-658. "Crap," Kai said as he ran down the hall as fast as he could. Once he reached C-625 there was another hallway and he almost went passed it when he noticed that it was a hallway with the numbers C-100 and up. He ran down the hall way until he reached C-133 on his left. He slid in the card and the door clicked. Suddenly he heard someone.
"HEY! Kid, what are you doing in here!"
Kai turned to see one of the crew members and ran into the room. "What the hell did I just do? I made myself look even more guilty." He caught his breath and looked through the room while the crew member was banging on the door. He looked around but couldn't see anything on the floor. He heard the door open and turned to see a man grab him by his arm.
"What are you doing here?" the man asked.
"One of the crew members lost their keys, they asked me to run back here and get them for him or else he might get fired."
"Tall guy, brown hair, early30's?" They crew member asked.
"I guess he might be in his early 30's," Kai said.
"I know him, the poor fool is clumsy and kind of scatterbrained. He should have just came back himself."
"He seemed worried that he said that he would get in trouble if he did."
"Yeah, well he's lucky. I'm the one who got him this job. I told his boss to give him a shot and he was nice enough to do so but so far he's done nothing but screw up. Come on, let's find his keys." They looked around when Kai finally found them in between the dresser and bed. "Alright, I'll help you get out to the main hallway again. Tell the scatterbrained fool to be careful."
"I will, thank you," Kai said. The man helped Kai out into the hall where the guests stayed. Kai thanked him again and then ran back to the lobby. When he found the vendor he ran over to him and handed over his keys.
"Oh thank you, did you have any trouble?" The man asked as he took his keys back and opened up the vending stand.
"Not really, got caught but then explained what I was doing to the crew member that caught me." Kai watched as he opened the stand and noticed that it was a booster pack stand.
"You're here for the tournament aren't you?" The man asked and Kai nodded. "Take any booster you like for your trouble. My treat."
"Are you sure?' Kai asked.
"Yes, you deserve it," Kai picked out a Magicians Force pack and thanked the man again. As he was walking off to find his friends the man shouted out, "Do you remember who caught you?"
Kai shouted back, "I didn't get his name, but it was the guy who convinced your boss to give you this job, he told me to tell you to be careful." Kai then ran into the shop that he saw his friends went into earlier leaving the man confused.
"But…no one got me this job. I applied for it myself."
Inside the shop Kai looked around for his friends but couldn't see them. He found a small seat and decided to open it. He looked through it and then his jaw dropped, "Black Magician of Chaos," he said looking down at it. "I can tell, he is going to help me a lot," he said to himself. He pulled out his deck and slid the card into it. He put the deck back and decided to go search for his friends.
Leaving the store and walking through the lobby, Kai tried to find his friends but failed at finding them. He decided that they might have gone back to the rooms so he we went back to his. He got there and entered the room but didn't find Sprite. Laying on the bed he figured that they would arrive sooner or later and let the days adventure flow through his mind."
Hajime, Domid, Sprite, and Nine were walking back to their rooms as people walked past them. "It's very possible that Kai could have gone back to the room because he didn't want to buy anything," Hajime said.
"Oh yeah," Sprite said. "He probably didn't want to have to owe us more."
A white haired kid snickered as he walked by, "If you have a duelist with you who owes you money, take his cards and call it even."
"That 'duelist' is our friend," Hajime said as he looked at the boy. He noted that the boy was wearing a blue sweatshirt, and tan cargo pants, much like Hajime.
"If he's holding you back then just let him go, he's not worth it," the boy said.
"Oh, and who made you the expert?" Sprite asked.
"I did," the kid hissed. "Listen up, I used to be friends with someone who always needed things, and I used to help him out. But trust me, once I asked for my payment back, he wouldn't deliver. I had to take back what he owed me by force and then move on."
"Just because you had a bad experience before, doesn't mean that everyone is like that," Hajime. "Some people actually play honorably, and will pay back what they owe."
"Hmph, it must be nice living in a fantasy world. Well when the competition starts, get ready to face the real world, and fear the name of Sarosu, for I will pound you into the dirt."
"I'm waiting for the part where I'm supposed to care," Hajime said.
"Heh, keep living in the fantasy world, I'll wake you up soon enough," and with that Sarosu walked off.
"Well, seems like you have a new rival," Sprite said to Hajime.
"Oh well," he said as he continued to walk down the hall. The others soon followed and when they got there Sprite used her Key Card to open the door. They walked in and noticed that Kai was asleep on bed that Sprite had slept on.
Sprite walked over to him and shook him lightly. Kai stirred and he opened his eyes. He let out a yelp and Sprite giggled. "How long have you been here?" he asked her.
"We just came in, we were looking for you because you disappeared."
"I had to help someone find their keys, and then I tried to find you in the store but you weren't there any longer so I came back to the room and decided to wait for you here."
"Well I was worried about you, I didn't know where you had gone."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to worry you."
"Just don't do it again," Sprite said smiling.
Kai blushed a bit, "Ok," he said. He looked at the clock and saw that it was 10:45. "Well, I guess we only have about another hour to go before we have to get off, so what should we do?"
"There is really not much to do," Domid said.
Kai looked over and noticed the rest of the group standing near the doorway, Kai started to blush again, "Hey guys, been there long?"
"The whole thing," Nine said laughing.
"Yeah?" Kai asked getting back his normal color. "Then you can leave for the rest of it," he said and promptly threw a pillow at Nine. Nine took the pillow and then ran out the door.
"I guess we'll join up in our room," Hajime said walking out followed by Domid.
"This is going to turn out to be an interesting trip," Kai said.
"We really have to find some time to do something non-tournament related while we are here," Sprite said looking around the room.
"Yeah, I'm sure we can all find something interesting to do," Kai said getting off the bed.
"That's not exactly what I meant," Sprite said looking down.
Suddenly the door opened up and they looked up and say Kayose walk through the door. "Oh great," He said staring at Sprite.
"How the hell did you get in here?" Sprite asked.
"We have been sharing this room the entire time," he said nonchalantly. "You were just never around or asleep whenever I came in." He picked up his bag and walked back towards the door. "See ya in the contest newbs."
"I swear, I'm gonna…"
"Just let it go," Kai said. "We have to go into the other room anyway." They walked over to the others room and waited for them to answer the door. Domid opened it for them and they went inside.
"I can't believe we've been sharing a room with Kayose this entire time!" Sprite screamed. "I want to just go set those sheets on fire now!"
"Do that and you'll be more than just disqualified," Hajime said, not looking up from his deck.
"I'll show him whose the newb," Sprite said under her breath so that the others couldn't hear her.
"So, we have a little time left before we disembark," Kai said. "What should we do?"
"Practice dueling?" Domid asked?"
"I don't see why not," Sprite said. "I have some extra energy locked up so I'm ready to duel NOW!"
"Alright, I'll duel you," Domid said. The sat down on opposite sides of the bed and placed their decks down. Sprite began to draw her hand when suddenly an announcement came on over the intercoms.
"Attention all participants in the Duel Monsters World Championship, due to the ship traveling with the current, we are going to arrive at the island ahead of schedule. Please gather your things and meet in the lobby to disembark. We thank you for joining us, please have a safe and fun time."
"I guess we'll never figure out who would have won," Domid said.
"That's fine with me!" Sprite said. "The sooner we disembark, the sooner I can ram Kayose's face into the dirt!"
"If you do that, you'll be disqualified," Everyone said in unison.
"ALL RIGHT!" Sprite roared. "Let's just go disembark already!"
Kai and Sprite went back into their room and got their things ready. They met with the others and they walked out to the lobby. They walked out towards the top deck and looked out towards the island.
"It's, amazing," Kai said stunned.
"It looks like an entire city floating in the ocean." Nine said.
"Look at that dome on the hill, I think that's the Sky Top Duel Dome!" Kai said excited.
"And that's where we will be going," Sprite said. They all nodded and walked back down to the lobby. Unfortunately there was a long line with people already at the stairs. They got as close as they could to the steps and proceeded to wait from there. It took another 10 minutes before the doors were opened and people began to slowly exit the ship.
After another 5 minutes they finaly got off the boat and were being told by security guards to follow the yellow signs with the red arrows. They followed the signs looking all around at the different buildings. There were restaurants, shops, hotels, anything that you would find in a city. There were billboards with advertisements of the new set of Duel Monsters cards coming out, large TV's that seemed to be on standby, and lots of blinking lights.
The one thing amiss was the fact that there were very few people around. They could see people in the buildings but that was about it. They were walking taking in the sites for about 15 minutes until they got to a large stage set up in the middle of the street. All the competitors where getting as close as they could but where having no luck, there were too many people in the way.
Suddenly all the TV's came on and they could hear voices coming from the TV's. A man in his 40's with brown, receding hair, and a brown suit came on the TV screen, he was standing on the stage that was in the middle of the street. "Greetings competitors," The screens said in many different languages. "Welcome to the Duel Monsters 2005 World Championships!" Everyone started cheering and clapping as they watched the screen. Once the cheering died down the man continued again. "I know most of you are wondering why you were brought out to an Island to compete in a Duel Monsters Tournament, right?"
Everyone started yelling things out while others just stood there and waited for the answer. "Well, it's because you all get to test out actual Duel Disk systems." Everyone in the audience was shocked. "That's right, we have succeeded in creating working Duel Disks. The problem is that they are only connected to this island. So, we wanted you all to have the best tournament ever so we brought you here to use the Duel Disks. During the tournament our team of researchers will be monitoring the Duel Disks to see if there are any bugs to be worked out. If all goes well, then our team will begin production of satellites that will be launched into space so that everyone will be able to duel all the time."
The whole audience cheered and applauded while the man continued. "By the end of the tournament, we will let you know whether or not we were successful at the Duelist Breakfast after the last day of the tournament. If we were, then you will all be allowed to keep your duel disks and you will receive an e-mail from the Tournament Head Quarters when the Duel Satellites are in space. Now, I will continue on with the actual rules of the tournament. "All Tournament Duels will be taking place in one of the 4 Dueling Arena's located throughout the Island. There is the North and South West Dueling Arena's and the North and South East Dueling Arena's. Anyone not participating in a duel is allowed to watch the duels in the audience seats. Only the 8 finalists are allowed into the Sky Top Dueling Arena, everyone else that has already been eliminated are allowed into the Sky Top Dueling Arena Seats to watch the finalists battle it out, but that is a long time away."
"You all may duel anywhere on the island, in fact we highly recommend it because it will help us in testing the duel disks for bugs. The more duels the better for our research. Before each Tournament match the players may ante up their rarest cards and the winner will receive the losers card. Remember, you can ante up your cards if you want to, it is not a rule that you have too. Now, I know you are all wondering how you are going to make it to the Sky Top Dueling Arena. As I said before, each of the duels are going to be taken place inside of one of the four main dueling arenas. Everyone will be assigned to those separate dueling arenas. The two best players from each Dueling Arena will be admitted into the finals. Each Duelist will have to win 5 duels in the duel arenas before they can progress into Sky Top Dueling Arena."
Suddenly Kai became very nervous, "Guys, that means that if we all want to make it into the finals," he was shushed by someone standing next to him.
"Now I will explain how the Duel Disks work," the man explained as he held up a red disk. "As you can see you have what appears to be two seperate disks, one on top and one on bottom. The bottom disk is where the actual holo-graphic images come from. I remove that from the bottom and toss it into the middle of the field. The Disk activates while spinning and projects the image, think of it almost as one of those Yo-Yo's that continues to spin even though it is at the end of the rope, and the lights it emits while spinning. The top disk is the one that gets put onto your arm. Your deck goes there in the deck holster, and then the top half of the disk unfolds to reveal your monster slots. Your Spell and Trap cards are slid in the slot underneath the monster zones. Field Cards are placed inside of a slide slot that opens up whenever you activate one."
"In order to receive your Duel Disks you must go to the Regestration office and sign in. While there you will also receive directions to the hotel you will be staying at. Also, when you register for your duel disk you will randomly be assigned to one of the 4 dueling arenas. Inside each hotel room is the list of rules for participating along with cards that are either banned, or limited. Some Card Rules may be changed. You will find out which ones when you read the instructions. Operating instructions for the Duel Disks are inside of the box they come in. The tournament begins tomorrow, get a good night's sleep, and ready your decks. Good luck and good evening."
The TV screens changed to show directions on to how to get to the Registration Office and all of the duelists began to make their way over there. "Guys, do you realize what this means?" Kai asked.
"What do you mean?" Domid asked.
"If only the best two players from each Arena are allowed into the Finals, that means that there can't be more than two of us in a Dueling Arena, or else there will be no possible way for us to all get there."
"You're right!" Sprite gasped. "We could very well could be placed into the same arena."
"Calm down," Nine said. "Remember, it's a random selection, that means, that we do stand a chance of being put into different arenas."
"Remember though," Hajime started, "there are five of us, and only 4 arenas. The only possible way is to have two of us in two different arenas and the last of us to be put into one by our selves."
"I know we'll get through it," Domid said. "We have to!"
"Let's worry about getting to the Register Office first," Hajime said as everyone stopped walking and looked at the long line in front of a tall building that said 'Registration Office'. "We might be here for a while."
The group waited for half an hour before it was finally their turn. Kai walked up to the woman at the desk and she smiled at him, "Good afternoon, please swipe your card through and you will receive your Duel Disk." Kai looked at the small screen in front of him with a card slot. He swiped it through and the woman typed something into the computer while the letters NE appeared on the screen along with directions to a hotel. A small paper came out with the directions and letters. The woman reached for something under the desk and came up with a long white box.
"Here's your Duel Disk," She said smiling. "The letters represent what Dueling Arena you will be in, NE stands for North East. So that will be the Dueling Arena you report to for your duels. The directions tell you how to get to your hotel. If you have any problems with your duel disk please come back here to report it. Please step outside so that I may register the rest of the competitors and good luck."
Kai stepped out side and waited for the others to come out. The first member to come out was Hajime, "So, what duel arena where you assigned to?" Kai asked.
"The South East Dueling Arena," he said leaning against the wall. They waited for the next person to came out and it was Sarosu. "What are you doing here?" Hajime asked.
"There was more than one registration booth, if you had your eyes open you would have realized that," he said snottly. "See ya," he said as he walked off snickering.
"You know him?" Kai asked.
"Yes, but I wish I didn't," he said.
Just then Domid came out, "I'm in the South East Dueling Arena," he said as he looked at Hajime. "Guess you could say we're partners."
"I guess so," Hajime nodded. "So, we have two more coming out, if either of them are in South East, we will have a problem."
"Yeah," Kai said quietly. They waited for a minute or so when suddenly Kai was tackled in a hug by Sprite. "AH!" Kai yelped as he fell down on the ground. Sprite laughed and helped him up. "Why did you have to go and attack me dirrectly like that?" Kai asked catching his breath."
"I'm North East, that means we duel together," Sprite said smiling.
"That just leaves Nine," Domid said looking back into the building. They waited for a few more minutes not saying anything. Nine walked out and Domid was the first to ask, "Well, how did it go?"
"I'm in the South West Dueling Arena," Nine said as everyone let out a small breath of relief. "Looks like we got past that disaster." They all decided that it was safe to go head over to the hotel. They followed Hajime's directions and they came to an intersection. "Blue Eyes Street and Red Eyes Street," Nine said musing at the names of the streets.
"Guess they knew I was coming," Hajime said chuckling. "It says we have to take Red Eyes Street." He started walking down the street and the others followed. They found their hotel, it was a tall red building with a large parking lot.
They walked in and saw a few people checking in. They stood in line and 8 minutes later it was their turn. Hajime gave the man at the desk his card and the man swiped it through. "Alright, you key card is now activated for our hotel rooms," he said. "You're room number is number 600 on the top floor." Hajime thanked the man and waited for the others. Kai was the next to have his card swiped through. "Oh, I'm sorry," the man at the desk said, "but this isn't your hotel."
"What!" Everyone said in shock.
"It's a shame they made all these cards look the same, but this isn't your hotel. You're hotel is over on Kuriboh Street."
"But, our rooms on the boat were right next to each other," Kai said confused. "I thought we would be in the same hotel."
"The boat rooms and Hotel Rooms aren't always the same," the man said. "You're Friends card said 600 for his room number. Each hotel has 600 rooms, and there will be three people to each room. You're card has the number 001, to show that you are in room one of another hotel. Kuriboh street isn't too far from here. If you take Blue Eyes Street and walk down for about a block, you will see the begining of Kuriboh Street. You're hotel will be over there. If you would like I can check the other cards of your friends to see if they have the same problems."
The man checked the cards and the only other person to have a different Hotel was Domid, and as it turned out Domid was rooming with Kai. "So I guess we'll be seperated for a while," Kai said looking back at the group.
"This might make things a bit difficult," Hajime said.
"We'll be fine," Domid said. "We can still call between the hotels to see how everyone is progressing in the tournament, and we can probably find a place to meet up later on."
"Sounds like a plan," Nine said. "Good luck you guys."
"Same to you," Kai said nodding as him and Domid walked out of the hotel. "So we hit a speed bump, at least we are all ok when it comes to where we are dueling. This is only something minor."
"True, the major thing was being placed in different arenas," Domid said. They walked back up Red Eyes Street and saw a purple haired girl wearing a light blue shirt, and black jeans looking confused staring at the signs. "Can we help you?" Domid asked.
"My hotel is on Kuriboh Street but I can't find it," she said.
"Well then you don't need to keep searching," Kai said, "We were just heading there now. We have to take Blue Eyes Street and then walk down a block and Kuriboh Street will be there."
"Wow, thanks," she said. They began walking Blue Eyes Street and they introduced them selves. "I'm Kalesa," the girl said. "Who are you two?"
"This is my best bud Domid, and I'm Kai," he said.
"Nice to meet you both, thanks again for helping me."
"It's no problem, like I said before, we were heading there anyway." The walked down Blue Eyes Street getting to know each other and then they came upon Kuriboh Street. They took it and not long after they saw the hotel. "Here we are," Kai said.
The three walked in and got registered. As it turned out Kalesa had the same room as Domid and Kai. "They walked into their room and unloaded their things. "Oh it's so good to put that stuff down," Kalesa said. "I've had those things with me the whole trip, not letting them leave my sight once."
"How come?" Domid asked. "Wouldn't it be easier to just leave it in your room?"
"I came alone, and I didn't know what kind of people could be in my room. I didn't want my things stolen so I kept them with me."
"I can understand that," Kai said. "Well if you want, you're more than welcome to hang out with Domid and me during the tournament. We have a group of friends with us in another hotel and I'm sure they would like you very much."
"Thanks," she said smiling. "So, what dueling fields are you guys in?"
"I'm in the South East Dueling Arena," Domid said.
"And I'm in the North East Dueling Arena," Kai said.
"Well, then I guess you and I might have to face each other," Kalesa said. "I'm North East as well."
"Well if we do have to face each other I'm sure it will be an excellent duel and I'll happily except it."
"Same here," she said. "So, the tournament doesn't really start until tomorrow, what do you say we do until then?"
"I'm not sure," Kai said. "There really isn't much to do until the tournament starts."
"If I'm not mistaken," Domid began, "don't they have some kind of hotel activities during the night?"
"Do they?" Kai asked interested.
"Yeah, they have things like swiming competitions, tennis matches, dances, things like that," Domid explained
'Dance's?' Kai thought in his mind.
"Unfortunatly none of that starts until 8:30 at night," Kalesa said.
"That still leaves us with nothing to do now," Kai said. "It's not as if we can just go to sleep and wait for tomorrow to come."
"I'm actually pretty tired from the boat ride and the lines," Domid said.
"I am too, I think I might have gotten sea sick," Kalesa said.
"Ouch," Kai said. "I've never gotten sea sick myself, but I know someone who has. Well, I guess we could lay down for a while." Kai noticed that there were three beds in the hotel room and that it was larger than the rooms on the boat. Laying down in one of them Kai felt really happy because the bed was nice and soft. He pulled the covers over his shoulder and fell into a deep sleep.
A telephone ringing brought Kai out of his sleep, he turned over and picked up the phone, "mn...hel...hello?" he asked tiredly.
"Sounds like you just woke up," Sprite's voice said over the phone.
"What time is it?" Kai said standing up in the bed.
"About 5:00, we were wondering if you two wanted to do anything before the night was over."
"Um, I don't know. What were you guys thinking?"
"Dinner was what we were thinking."
"I don't see why not. Let me see if Domid wants to," Kai looked around but Domid and Kalesa weren't in the room. "Domid isn't in here. I wonder where he went."
"Beats me," Sprite said. "So, I guess since you don't know where he is we would be minus one member."
"I was actually thinking I'd hang here for a while in all honesty," Kai said. "I want to check out the hotel, maybe do a bit of swiming."
"Alright, we understand. We're going to go see if there are any decent resteraunts on this Island. I guess you and I will meet up tomorrow then."
"Yeah," Kai said. "See you then," Kai hung up the phone and stretched out. He grabbed his Card Key and his backpack and left the room. He got directions from one of the other duelists to the directions to the pool. Once he got there he went into the bathroom and changed. He dived into the pool and just floated for a while. He did some laps and then went into one of the Jacuzzi's next to the pool. He stayed in there for 10 minutes and then went back in to change.
He got out and looked at the clock on the wall before leaving the pool area. "Its 6:00 now, I guess I could grab something to eat and then hit the arcade." Kai went and had a light dinner and then went over to the arcade. He hung out there and played the games for about 2 hours and then went back to the room. When he got there he saw Domid and Kalesa sitting on one of the beds talking. "Where were you two?" he asked them when he got there.
"We where haning around seeing the sights," Kalesa said. "We didn't want to wake you. Where were you?"
"I went swiming and then hung out at the arcade."
"Cool, well, I'm tired," Domid said. "I'm heading to bed."
"Same here," Kai said while Kalesa nodded. "Well, I guess I'll see you in the morning for the actual tournament."
"Yup," Domid said.
"Good night," Kalesa said. Everyone laid down on their beds and mentally preped themselves for the tournament before they fell asleep.
Sdrive: Well, this got harder to write due to the fact that I was running out of ways to end it. But, its ended now. Ok, next chapter, the very first duel of the tournament! Yay! Sorry for the long wait everyone. And now, it's response time.
Mina: RUN MINA RUN! -Watches bus drive past Mina- NO! lol, just joking. Thank you Mina, but I can understand what Reaver is saying, he wants action and stuff, I can't blame him for that.
Reaver: Like I said to Mina, I can under stand why you are getting a bit bored, but this is the last chapter before lots of holograms die lol. Poor Bakura, oh well.
Axel: Well, you may like to see Kayose get nailed, but unfortunatly you will have to wati for a LONG time before that happens. Hope you stick around that long.
Zenryo: Actually that line sorta came from Yugi and Strings Duel except slightly altered. Happy? You have now been annoyed. I planned on making you annoyed anyway, but I just wanted to wait till this chapter. Blue Eyes, already explained, not going to go into that with you, um...thanks for the compliment about what you would have said yadda yadda. More free stuff YAY, and I know that both you and David are going to nail me on it so I'm going to say it now, I don't care if Dark Magician of Chaos doesn't actually come from Magician's Force, I think it should have been in there. And besides, I needed something for him to get. So THERE! Cute Aliens!
Peace Writer: Congrats for you, do you want a cookie -starts to hand him a cookie but eats it. After done eating- too bad lol. No, j/k. Yes, you were the first reviewer, so now you get a prize -throws you a plush toy of Tea- something I know you've always wanted hehehe. Anyway, yes I know about grammer and spelling, and NOT CARING! lol. Yes, Tension is good. Well thats about it.
Sdrive: Ok, people, so far I've pumped a new chapter out every week. That might get a bit harder now due to having to write duels, and if that wasn't hard enough, I also have to do ALOT better in school. Which means I won't have a lot of time on my hands for a while. I'll do what I can tonight, but chances of me having something out for this story by next week are slim to none. Next chapter, the duels finally begin, with Kai and Sprite setting off the North East Dueling Arena, who could Kai's first opponent be? Stay tuned. Also, starting at the begining of the next chapter I'll throw in a little suprise for you all. So be happy and wait for that suprise. Until next time.
Power to the Hikari's