Sdrive: Well, here I am, with another episode of the Sky Top Duelists. I'm not exactly sure how good this duel will be but let's hope that it lives up to what I want. Well, lets give a big applause to Domid, for he is the next duelists. –cricket chirps and pin drops- oh well, I tried.

Disclaimer: -Shi holding shot gun- Now, you going to ask us if we own it?

Sdrive: -.- We don't own it.

Domid and Hajime were walking down the street going towards the South East dueling arena. Domid was playing around with his Duel Disk and Hajime was walking with his eyes scanning over the cards in his deck. "Technology must have gotten much better," Domid joked as he walked on. Hajime shrugged and that left Domid looking at him oddly. "Well, I think it's pretty cool they finally got real working Duel Disks."

"Must have been expensive," Hajime said not looking up from his cards.

"What are you doing anyway?" Domid asked him.

"Just making sure everything is exactly as I want it to be," Hajime said as he finally put his cards back into his deck box. He placed the deck box into the coat and decided to look down at the Duel Disk. He detached the disk and looked at the bottom of it. He nodded and re-attached the disk.

"And what was that about?"

"Just looking," Hajime said. "So, let's go over it again, only the best two duelists from each arena are allowed into the Sky Top Dueling Arena, we were fortunate enough to get 2 of us in separate arenas and Nine in by himself. However, we still have to win in order to get to the finals."

"Right," Domid said nodding. "He look, we're almost there." They walked up to the door and looked over the other duelists. "Some of them look pretty confident."

"They may be confident but more than likely they don't have a goal worth reaching. To become the best or to impress someone is most likely what they are here for. We on the other hand have a true reason for being here." Hajime looked around and noticed that they were explaining the rules of the tournament. Once the tournament hosts finished Hajime walked over to one of the computers and made up a new screen name and a password. Domid did the same and they were ready. Domid walked over to the screen and noticed that he was dueling in the very first field.

"Well what do you know?" Domid mused, he looked over at his opponent's face. His opponent was a girl with short blonde hair and blue eyes. He didn't recognize her though. "Guess that's to be expected." The doors opened and the duelists began to be let out into the arena. "Good luck!" Domid called back to Hajime. Hajime nodded and began to through the doors as well.

"I'm field 11," Hajime said. "I'll meet you back outside when the duels are over."

Domid nodded and he walked over to field number 1. He stood there and waited for a few minutes until a girl walked past him and took her place on the other side of the arena. It was the girl whose picture he had seen. "Well, I guess it's time to start this duel," Domid said as he looked over at his opponent. "My names Domid, and what's yours?"

"Katara," She said.

"Well, I'm sure we'll have a good duel."

"Yeah I guess," She said as she ripped the disk and it burst out in a flash of light. She shuffled her deck and inserted it into the Duel Disk. The Duel Disk unfolded and lit up displaying her Life Points.

"Whoa, that's pretty cool," Domid said. He ripped his own disk and then shuffled and inserted his deck. His disk unfolded and lit up displaying his own Life Points. They looked at the judge and he pointed to Domid. Domid nodded and drew his cards. "I'll set a card under the table and then set a monster on guard and end my turn," Domid said. 'Not the best hand but I can make it work.'

"Well, I guess that makes it my turn," Katara said. She drew her hand and looked down at it. "Well, I think it's safe to say that I have this duel in the bag already. I summon Harpie Lady 1!" A bird like woman appeared on the field, her talons were extremely sharp. (1300/1400) "My Harpie Lady 1 gives an extra 300 attack points to all wind type monsters." Katara explained as her Harpie Lady got stronger. (1600/1400) Next I play Elegant Egotist, this allows me to Special Summon any monster with the name Harpie Lady or Harpie Lady Sisters as long as I have a Harpie Lady on the field." Suddenly another of the Harpie Ladies appeared on the field. "And the kind I choose was Harpie Lady 1 which means that this one also boosts the power of all wind types." Harpie Lady 1 (1900/1400).

"Whoa, that's a good move," Domid said surprised. "I've never really faced a Harpie Deck, they never used to be all that much of a threat."

"I've just recently started playing Duel Monsters and the first card I ever pulled was the Harpie Lady Sisters. So I base my deck around the Harpies, oh, and by the way, I've never lost a duel. And it looks like I won't lose this one either," she said a bit bored. "Now I activate my field card, Rising Air Current! This gives all wind type monsters a power boost by 500 Attack Points, but it lowers their Defense by 400. Guess that's a small price to pay," Katara said bored. (2400/1000) "Harpie Lady 1, attack the monster!" The Harpie Lady swept forward and blasted away a machine that looked like a roboticized dragon. "Hey! That thing needs a sacrifice!" Katara said. "Judge Disqualify him! I never won by cheating!"

"He can't disqualify me since this is a completely legal move," Domid said. "This is Fusilier the Duel Mode Beast, I can summon him without sacrificing but his Attack and Defense are cut in half. Usually Fusilier is a 2800 attacker with 2000 defense. But since I summoned him without a sacrifice he became a 1400/1000."

Katara looked at the judge and he nodded. "It says it right on the card, its part of Fusiliers effect," the judge said.

"Whatever, you still don't have anything protecting your Life Points, so go my second Harpie Lady, attack the player!" The Harpie Lady flew towards Domid but suddenly he called out.

"Reverse Trap, Call of the Haunted!" The Trap flipped up and Fusilier came back to the field with his full power. (2800/2000)

"What!" Katara said. "I thought it was supposed to have its power cut in half!"

"Nope," Domid said. "Once it is sent to the graveyard its effect ends and if it's brought back it's brought back with all its attack power."

"Damn, fine, since a new monster appeared on the field a replay occurs and my Harpie Lady can be stopped. So my Harpie Lady doesn't do anything else. I set one card under the table and end my turn."

"Fine, now it's my turn," Domid said as he drew his card. "I activate Graceful Charity, this allows me to draw three cards as long as I discard two." Domid drew his three cards and looked them over, "I discard Sinister Serpent and Card Destruction and then I activate Pot of Greed to draw two cards." Domid drew his cards and looked at them. "I set two cards under the table and then I set one monster on guard. "Fusilier, attack the first Harpie Lady 1!" Fusilier shot its missiles and they headed for the Harpie Lady.

"Now it's my turn to play a trap," Katara said. "Reverse Harpie's Phoenix Formation. However many Harpie Ladies I have on the field is the amount of attacks I can stop. So since I have two I can stop two of your attacks. Looks like your Fusilier won't be doing any damage to me this turn."

Domid let out a small growl but then ended his turn. "Good, that means I can continue," Katara said as she drew her card. "This duel is getting a bit boring," She said as she looked down at her card. "I summon Harpies Brother!" She said as a bird like man appeared on the field and stood in-between the Harpie Ladies. (1800/1000) "And due to my Harpie Ladies and my Rising Air Current it gains 1100 attack points, making it stronger than your Fusilier. (2900/600)

"This is bad," Domid said looking at the Harpies Brother.

"It just means that I will win a lot faster," Katara said. "Go, Harpies Brother, attack the Fusilier!" The Harpies Brother flapped its wings and the wind pierced through the machine and it was destroyed. "Then my Harpie Lady 1 will attack your on guard monster!" The Harpie Lady attacked the monster and a woman with a crescent moon staff appeared and was destroyed."

"You attacked my Magician of Faith, that allows me to bring back one Spell Card," Domid said as he looked through his cards and then took out his Pot of Greed.

"It doesn't matter, go my final Harpie attack the player!" The Harpie flew towards Domid and slashed him with its claws. Domid fell backwards as the Harpie went back to his side of the field. "And that ends my turn," Katara said. Domid:6500/8000

Domid stood back up and drew his card, "Now the effect of my Sinister Serpent comes into place, if it's in the graveyard I can bring it back to my hand during my standby phase." Domid took the Sinister Serpent card out of his graveyard and put it back in his hand. "And now I activate Pot of Greed," he said as he drew his two new cards. "Excellent, he said smiling, I remove Fusilier and Magician of Faith from my graveyard out of play in order to Special Summon Chaos Sorcerer!" Domid said as the Purple skinned man dressed in black cloaks appeared on the field. (2300/2000) "That's not all, I summon my Sinister Serpent!" Domid said as the small green snake appeared on the field. (300/200)

"What could you be planning? That thing can easily be defeated," Katara said looking slightly bored in Domid's move.

"Now I use my Chaos Sorcerer's special ability to remove one of your Harpie Ladies from play." The Chaos Sorcerer chanted a spell and one of the Harpie Ladies were encased in an energy ball and then the ball and Harpie Lady disappeared. "Now each of your monsters lose 300 attack points." Harpie Brother: (2600/600) Harpie Lady 1 (2100/1000)

"I still don't get your move. My Harpie Brother is still 300 points stronger than your Chaos Sorcerer and you can't use its effect again."

"Who said I needed its effect again, the secret lies in my Sinister Serpent now," he said looking over at his monster.

"What could that thing possibly do?" Katara asked.

"I'll show you," Domid said taking a card from his hand and putting it in his Spell and Trap zone. The card appeared on the field and then flipped up. "I've activated my Metamorphosis," he said smiling. Suddenly the Sinister Serpent began to change its form, it began growing thousands of eyes and it began to get much bigger and turn purple. "Metamorphosis allows me to summon a fusion monster from my fusion deck as long as the fusion monster's level is the same as the monster I use Metamorphosis on. So now you are about to meet my favorite monster. The Thousand Eyes Restrict!" The Sinister Serpent finished transforming and now the Thousand Eyes Restrict stood on Domid's side of the field. (0/0) "My Thousand Eyes is allowed to suck up one of your monsters, and the monster I choose to suck up is the Harpie Lady 1!" The Thousand Eyes' eyes started glowing green and the Harpie lady was sucked into the monster. Her body started to meld together with the monster and she screamed out her battle cry when she was melding.

"That is just disgusting," Katara said with a green face.

"I think it's awesome," Domid said letting out a fake evil laugh. He then turned green, "That was pretty gross wasn't it?" He shook it off and then looked back at the field. "Either way, since your Harpie Lady is now considered an equip spell card her effect is no longer activated so your brother loses another 300 attack points." Harpie Brother: (2300/600)

"My Harpies Brother is still stronger than that Thousand Eyes!"

"But not as strong as you think, my Thousand Eyes takes on the attack power of the monster it sucks up, too bad it reverts back to a 1300. (1300/1400) My Thousand Eyes will now attack the Harpies Brother!" Thousand Eyes let out a beam of energy and it went towards the Harpies Brother.

"I don't know what your thinking, Harpies Brother, Counter Attack!" The Brother dodged the blast and went towards the Thousand Eyes and attacked it. "Now you've lost your favorite monster," Katara said smiling.

"I'm afraid not," Domid said. The Thousand Eyes was still there but the Harpie Lady was gone. "Thousand Eyes is almost the ultimate Union Monster. He can take up your monsters and make itself stronger and when it's destroyed the monster that is attached to it is destroyed instead. Oh, and the other cool thing about it, is the fact that no other monsters other than itself can attack, the only reason your Harpies Brother was able to attack was due to the fact that it was stronger than the Thousand Eyes. It was only because it was counter attacking."

"You still took 1000 points of damage," Katara said. Domid:5500/Katara:8000

"I'm not too worried about that," Domid said, "Because now I can assimilate your Harpies Brother!"

"What!" Katara gasped as she watched her Harpie Brother get melded with the Thousand Eyes. (1800/1000)

"Hey, it gets less nauseating each time," Domid chuckled sarcastically as the color slowly began to come back to his face. "Anyway, now I have your Harpies Brother, and you have no monsters on the field. To bad I can't attack again this turn, so this will end my turn."

"I can't believe it, this kid has gotten rid of all my defenses!" Katara said shocked. "This kid isn't as bad as I thought. Well, he's not as good as he thinks he is either." She said drawing her card. "I set one monster on guard and end my turn."

"And now it's my turn," Domid said drawing his card. "I return Sinister Serpent from my Graveyard back to my hand." The card slipped out and Domid took it. "Next I summon Freed the Brave Warrior!" Domid said as a man with long blond hair and black clothes appeared on the field. "Since my Thousand Eyes Restrict is the only monster on the field that can attack I'll have it attack your monster!" The Thousand Eyes let out a blast of energy after draining the Harpies Brother of its power. Another Harpie appeared on the field and then blew up.

"That was my Harpie Lady 3, the monster that destroys my Harpie Lady can't attack again for two turns."

"Then I guess neither of us are allowed to attack then," Domid said. "I end my turn."

"It's my turn," Katara said as she drew her card. "I pass," she said.

Domid drew his card and looked at it. "I set a card under the table and end my turn."

Katara drew her card and started getting nervous. "I set a monster on guard and end my turn."

"She doesn't look to good. She only has two cards in her hand and it almost seems as though she's top decking." Domid said drawing his card, "I summon Archfiend Soldier!" Domid said as a monster with a long sword appeared on the field. (1900/1500) "That ends my turn. After this turn I get my ability to attack back," Domid said as he gave his signal that he was done.

Katara looked down at her deck and slowly picked up her card. "A regular Harpie Lady," she said relieved. "I summon Harpie Lady!" the bird woman appeared on the field in attack mode. "And then I play another Elegant Egotist, this allows me to summon another Harpie Lady 3!" (1300/1400)

"I get it," Domid said drawing his card I can only attack with one monster, and so once your other monsters are gone, I'm am stuck with only attacking your Harpie number 3. However, you forgot about your Rising Air Current."

"What about it?"

"It strengthens all your monsters, and that makes all your monsters the same attack power as mine!"

"So, what's your point?"

"Just watch, Thousand Eyes, attack Harpie Lady!" The Thousand Eyes let out its energy and destroyed the Harpie lady. Both the Harpie Lady and the Harpies Brother that the Thousand Eyes had attached to it were destroyed. "Now, Thousand Eyes, assimilate the Harpie Lady 3!"

"NO!" Katara said as she watched her Harpie Lady be absorbed into the Thousand Eyes. "So now you don't have to attack it!"

"That's right," Domid said smiling. "And that ends my turn."

Katara slowly drew her card, "This Harpie might be able to help me," I summon Harpie Lady 2!" The Harpie appeared on the field and it got stronger. (1800/1000) "That ends my turn."

'She's trying to force me to attack so that I'll take the life points,' Domid thought looking at Katara. 'Too bad her plan is about to fail,' he began talking, "I activate Mage Power!"

"No," Katara said meekly.

"This card gives the monster I equip it with an extra 500 attack points for every Spell and Trap card on my side of the field. I have 5 and that's including your Harpie Lady absorbed into my Thousand Eye, and that's the monster that gets Mage Power!"

"No!" Katara said shocked.

"That means that my Thousand Eyes gains an extra 2500 attack points." Domid said as his Thousand Eyes was surging with power. (3800/1400) "Go, attack the Harpie Lady!" the Thousand Eyes blasted out a surge of energy from it's gold eye and the Harpie Lady blew to pieces. Domid:5500/Katara:6000. "And with that I end my turn," Domid said smiling.

Katara stood there shocked. 'I don't think I can win,' she thought looking at the Thousand Eyes. 'I have my Harpies Dragon in my hand and a Harpies Girl on the field face down. Harpies Girl is no threat to a 3800 attacking monster.' She drew her card and looked down. "This is just what I needed, I activate Mystical Space Typhoon, and now say good by to your Mage Power!"

"I hate to do this too you, but reverse trap, Magic Jammer! I discard Sinister Serpent from my hand and your Spell card is negated."

Katara hung her head low, "Just go" she said.

Domid drew his card and smiled, "I think it's time I started doing a bit more damage to your life points. Sinister Serpent returns to my hand and then I activate Nobleman of Crossout! With this card I can remove a face down monster on your side of the field, and if the monster has a flip effect, any other monsters of that kind that you have in your deck are removed as well! A man in shiny armor appeared and slashed the face down card. A younger version of a Harpie Lady was destroyed and Domid smiled.

"That was my Harpie Girl," Katara said as she watched the Thousand Eyes prepare for an attack.

"Thousand Eyes, attack the player!" The Thousand Eyes let out it's energy and blasted Katara knocking her down. "That ends my turn," Domid said. Domid:5500/Katara:2700

Katara picked up her card and sighed. "I set one monster on guard and end my turn."

Domid drew his card, "I set a card under the table. Thousand Eyes, attack!" Suddenly a Harpie appeared on the field and was destroyed, but the Thousand Eyes didn't move from its spot. "Let me guess, Harpie Lady 3 right?"

"Yup, my last one," Katara said with fire in her eyes.

"I end my turn," Domid said as he looked down at the card he had placed down just a few moments earlier.

"I set a monster on guard," Katara said after she had looked at her card.

"Reverse Trap, Ceasefire! This trap flips up all monsters on guard and no flip effects are activated, and you will lose 500 life points for each effect monster on the field." Harpie Lady 1 was revealed giving itself a power boost. "That's 3 effect monsters, Thousand Eyes, Harpie 1, and Freed, so you lose 1500 life points." Domid:5500/Katara:1200

"I end my turn," Katara said. 'I can't believe it, this kid has won, I know that there is no denying it. I'm barely holding a defense in here. Once I run out of monsters to play he's got me. How did this happen? I've never lost.'

"My move," Domid said drawing his card. "I end my turn."

"I set one monster on guard," Katara said placing down the monster she drew.

Domid drew is card and smiled. "It's been a good duel but now its time to end it, I summon Sinister Serpent and then in response I activate Torrential Tribute! This trap will destroy all monsters on the field." A giant wave of water washed over all the monsters and they were destroyed. "Now I activate Premature Burial, and I resurrect my Archfiend Soldier. Go Archfiend, attack the player!" The Archfiend ran towards the Archfiend and slashed its sword across Katara. She fell backwards and her life points fell to zero. Domid:4700/Katara:0

Domid's Duel Disk refolded and his disk flew back towards him. He grabbed it and he ran towards Katara. He helped her up, "Hey sorry about this," Domid said as he looked at Katara.

"I can't believe it. I actually lost," Katara said shocked. She looked down at her deck and she looked extremely confused. "I don't get it, I've never lost, I thought no one could beat me, and here I am, losing in the first round. It's kind of a relief to know there's a challenge, but I really thought I would win."

"Sorry to show you up," Domid said holding his hand behind his head, "Look at it this way, now you have a chance to get even better. Maybe we can duel again some day."

Katara slowly nodded and then walked past Domid and out of the field. "I feel really bad for doing that to her," Domid said as he watched her walk away. "Well, as hard as it is to see someone like that taking losing so hard, I'm glad I won. Kai needs me, and I won't give up on him. He walked out of the arena and looked around. He didn't see Katara anywhere. He went to go get a soda and then he decided to check his Duelist Mail.

He walked to the computers and typed in his user name and password. He had two messages, one was from the tournament co-ordinators thanking him for using his system and then there was one from Harpiegirl123. How did she get my Mail address? He looked at the screen that showed duelists and then noticed that his Duelist Mail address was on the screen. "I guess once you register your screen name is posted." He opened the mail and read it.

Domid,

I guess it's a mixed blessing that I lost. I now see that there are others out there that are stronger than me, and now I have a reason to continue dueling, I almost gave up thinking that there was no one out there that was a challenge. Expect for us to duel again some day. I'll be hanging out around here dueling other people to test my skills. I'll see you again,

Katara.

He thought for a few moments and then hit reply.

Katara,

Glad I could help you, it was a good duel and I look forward to when we face each other again. Maybe I'll see you again while I'm here. See ya later,

Domid.

He hit send and then signed off his name. "Well, I guess I should go wait for Hajime outside," Domid said. He walked outside and looked around, he didn't know what he was looking for, but he knew that it wasn't for Hajime. "I hope she's alright," he said as he leaned back against the wall and waited for Hajime.

Sdrive: There ya go, the end of the chapter. That wasn't too bad of a duel, it could have been a bit better but someone using a Harpies Deck against a deck like Domid's. I actually had to rewrite a part of it to make it longer because Domid was winning way too soon. Well, time for reviews.

John: Well thank you, I don't know who you are but it's always nice to have a loyal fan.

Peace: Thank you, yes I know she had the duel won in three chapters, that was the one thing that disappointed me too. Sorry if this chapter wasn't as good, but I think you can understand why. HA! You thought he had some significance to the plot, well you were wrong! Lol

Reaver: I like crushing peoples spirits –Laughs Peace's annoying laugh- anyway. That duel actually inspired me to make a token deck and see how it would do in real life. Who know's. Well, if you can give me a deck that ISN'T as destructive, I might use it, but if you would please just e-mail it to me. But I think I have most of the decks I need but hey, I'm always up for suggestions.

Mad Bless You: Thanks! I like her too. Kai and Sprite, can't beat those two. Hope you update Duelist Academy soon.

Lgmk: Nope, no real basis, there was a slight basis for a while but it's safe to say that that is no longer part of it. Sprite is all and all my own. Not related to anyone, so thank you for the compliment. I don't really need characters so much as deck designs, and if you are going to send one then please send it to my e-mail, don't put it in a review. Thanks.

Sdrive: What? No Zenryo or Axel? I'm sad -sad- well, thats passed. ATTENTION I am here by starting my own sort of system such as nerd points and stuff like that. I am calling them Couch Potato Credits, or CPC's for short. You can not cash them in anywhere in real life but if you earn enough I will give you a not real type of internet nothing. In other words, you may win a plushy, but it won't be real duh! and here is the first ever question. 10 CPC's to the first person who can correctly guess where I got the name Katara. There will be more chances to win CPC's at other times and in other stories. Good luck everyone! I'm Sdrive Saying, WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO, I mean,

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