The Masters Tournament

by Sdrive

Its here, the 16 finalists have finally made it to the spot of the finals. The Duels are about to heat up. Who will end up being crowned the King of Games? The end is near and yet so far off. Soon the whole plot behind the tournament will be revealed.

7. Anger and Double Duel's

Sdrive: If you thought there was a bit of anger last chapter, you haven't seen anything yet.

Shi: Back away! I will kill you all.

Yugi: What's with him?

Sdrive: Aren't you looking?

Yugi: Why am I so Short?

Sdrive: Wasn't that a bit random?

Yugi: Was it?

Sdrive: I know where this is going, we are not playing the Question Game.

Yugi: Aww man.

Shi: I will kill you all BWHAHAHA

Yugi: Who is he talking to?

Sdrive: Lawyers.

Yugi: ok.

Shi: Die Lawyers, die!!!

Yugi: Guess that covers the disclaimer, huh?

Sdrive: What do you think?

Yugi: Do you know the Muffin Man?

Sdrive: Is he related to the Pilsberry dough boy?

Yugi: Isn't this the question game?

Sdrive: Stooooooppp!!! I know that Mirror Wall says that the attack is halfed during the damage step but Upper deck Ruling say's that only once it's destroyed does the attack power go back to normal. Sorry if that upsets anyone. Enjoy.

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Sdrive was in the hotel lying on the bed with his face down on the pillow. He was becoming angry, his other emotions didn't matter any longer, there was only two things that remained, hatred and lonlieness. He hated everything. He was starting to become cold. His loss was too much. He was going to win this Tournament, losing wasn't an option anymore. The gang came into the room. Hatred turned to annoyance. 'Here we go,' he thought. 'Oh, it will be alright sdrive, don't worry everything will be fine.'

"Are you ok?" Nari asked.

"Go away," Sdrive responded coldly.

"That's not really nice," she said.

"Tell it to someone who gives!"

"Come on man," Peace said. "You did what you had too. If you hadn't of attacked then that rare hunter would have declared it a forfit and dropped the crate."

"Peace is right," Mina said. "Now come on, you can fight for her but..."

Sdrive cut her off, "Let me tell you all something. I may seem carefree most of the time, but there is stuff about me that you know nothing about. Stuff I have kept to myself for a lot of years. Stuff that you little boys and girls couldn't possibly understand."

"Who are you calling little?" Yamato asked.

"You're younger than me are you not?" Sdrive asked him.

"Yes, however..."

"There you go."

"I'm like a few months older than you," Peace started to say but saw Sdrive glared daggers at him. "Uh, right." Peace said shutting up.

"Let me tell you something Peace, the stuff I've gone though in my life, could make me seem a lot older than I am. Yamato's told me stuff about his life, He's had it just as hard. It's not easy, going through the stuff we've gone through. When your life becomes as screwed up as ours have, then come talk. From now on, I'm the one dueling, you don't like it, then drop out or leave me alone. Anyone comes looking for a challenge, they have one. My Magicians. I'm leaving."

"Wait up," Yugi called to him, but yami cut him off.

"Yugi, Sdrive is upset, we should let him blow off some of his anger."

"Yugi, I'm done with being nice to everyone. I'm out for myself now, and no one is going to stop me. I will crush anyone who gets in my way." With that Sdrive walked past the group, grabbed his deck, inserted it into his duel disk, and walked out of the hotel room.

"Remind ya of anyone?" Joey asked.

"He's acting just like Kaiba," Tea said.

"I don't know about you guys but I'm following him," Mina told them. "I don't care what he say's. He needs a friend right now." With that Mina left to chase after Sdrive.

"We had better follow them," Yugi said. "There's no telling what dangers they could find themselves in." The rest of the gang nodded their head and they fran out of the room.

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Sdrive was searching the streets. He saw duelist everywhere, he wanted to pick out the perfect target. He didn't want to waste his time with someone who didn't have a lot of cards. He wanted to get to the finals as fast as he could. He heard footsteps behind him. He turned around to see Mina following him. Before she could say anything he spoke. "If you think you are going to stop me then I'll gladly take you one right now. I'm not afraid to duel anyone, not even a friend."

"I came to make sure you didn't rush into anything to quickly," Mina said a bit annoyed by his rudeness.

"Why don't you stop worring about me and start worring about yourself."

"Becuase I care for you too much as a friend to watch you get hurt."

Sdrive was about to speak but someone cut him off. "Hey! You kid!"

"Me?" Mina asked.

"No the Boy," he said.

"What do you want?" Sdrive asked.

"My name is Usma and I challenge you to a Duel."

"Ok Usma, My rarest cards are Mirror Wall, Sky Dragon of Osiris, Chaos Emperor Dragon, and the card I started off with, Dark Magician."

"I have Spell Binding Circle, Call of the Haunted, and the card I started out with. Exodia Necros."

"Exodia Necros huh?" "Well maybe this will be interesting."

The rest of the Gang caught up and saw the fire in Sdrive's eyes, he wasn't going to let anyone push him around. "So what are the rare cards?" Yugi asked.

"Spell Bining Circle, Call of the Haunted and Exodia Necros." Mina explained.

"Exodia Necros! Sdrive, you have to be careful, in order to summon Exodia Necors he has to..."

"Be quite Yugi, these are my duels to fight now and I will win! Besides, I know that in order to have Exodia Necros in a deck you need Exodia. I'm not a baka.

"Ok, I sure hope you know what your doing," Yugi said.

"I'm going first, if you have any problems with that, then maybe you're a coward,"

'He really seems to be taking charge,' Yamato observed. 'But it's not in the right way. He's going to end up making slopy moves, I know it.'

Their Life points rose to 8000 and they began the duel. Sdrive drew his opening hand and then his starting card. 'The faster the Better.' "Two cards under the table and Armored Zombie (1500/0) in attack mode." The decaying Zombie appeared with it's old sword in it's hand. "End turn."

Usma drew his cards, "I play Pot of Greed allowing me to draw two more cards next I play a card face down..."

"The correct speach is under the table," Sdrive said.

"Huh? What do..."

"If you are setting a Magic or Trap card you say under the table," Sdrive said annoyed.

"He learned that from me," Yamato said.

"Ok, I play a card under the table and summon Celtic Guardian (1400/1200) in attack mode. The Warrior appeared on the field and then fell into a large hole. "What just happened?" Usma asked.

"I activated Trap Hole. You wouldn't play a monster weaker than your opponents in attack mode if you didn't have some way to either power it up or stop the attack."

'Maybe he isn't going to make sloppy moves,' Yamato thought. 'He's fighting intelegantly. But he's not fighting much with his heart. I can sense that although he is fighting for Kelly, his heart isn't the one that's guiding him. His thirst for revenge is, and that never helps anyone.

"I'm guessing either that face down card was a trap that was going to help you or you had a power up card in your hand. One of the two."

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Seto Kaiba and Mokuba were walking the streets. Kaiba had just won another two duels. He already had 8 rare cards. He heard some comotion and decided to go check it out. 'Their might be a duel going on and if the winner looks promising enough then I might just challenge them and relieve them of their cards,' he thought.

"Ok, I play a card under the table and summon Celtic Guardian in attack mode." The Warrior appeared on the field and then fell into a large hole. "What just happened?"

"I activated Trap Hole. You wouldn't play a monster weaker than your opponents in attack mode if you didn't have some way to either power it up or stop the attack. I'm guessing either that face down card was a trap that was going to help you or you had a power up card in your hand. One of the two."

'It's that kid that hangs around with Yugi. Speaking of which there he is. Hmm, that kid seems to be pretty confident and he seems to have his eye set on the game. This might be worth watching.' Kaiba thought to himself. He walked over to them and Yugi saw someone approaching. He turned around and saw Seto Kaiba.

"Kaiba what are you doing here?" Yugi asked him.

Sdrive and Usma turned and saw Kaiba as well. "I saw that kid's move and the way he was reasoning through the game and thougth I might stay and see how well he does. That's the kind of logic I would use after all."

"Yeah, the logic that's so presise becuase he's dueling for a loved one that was taken away from him and now he's out for revenge," Yamato explained calmly.

"Really? Who was it?" Kaiba asked.

"His girlfriend," Yamato explained. "He was forced to duel her through Marik and he won. You know what happens to people who lose in this tournament I bet."

"Marik is here!!" Kaiba excalimed quite surprised.

"Yeah. He forced them to fight in a more complicated trap that was a no win situation. It was worse than Yugi and Joey's trap. Same Idea but a bit different."

"And I thought he changed," Kaiba said coldly.

"This is the Dark side of Malik we are talking about. He's taken over Malik's Body. Now Sdrive is after Sayora. He won't open up his eyes and see that revenge isn't the answer. He should fight for Kelly but he shouldn't seek revenge. He's basically acting just like you in other words." 'And to an extent like me, but I've sort of seen some of light.'

"What do you mean?" Mokuba asked him.

"Your brother seeks revenge on anyone who messes with you. Remeber Noa?"

"How do you know about Noa!" Kaiba said suddenly very upset.

"I have my ways." Yamato said.

"So the great Seto Kaiba came to watch me in a duel? This ought to be interesting, the current dragon master came to watch the rising mage master in a duel.

"The great Seto Kaiba," Usma said in awe. "Can I have your autograph?"

"We are in a duel in case you have forgotten. There is no time for stuff like that. Now finish your turn so I can get on with my life."

"I end my turn."

"I draw" Sdrive began.

"I activate my trap card. Eye of Truth. I get to see all your cards. If you have any magic cards in your hand during your standby phase you gain 1000 life points."

"Thanks for the power boost then." (L.P. 9000) "You were going to see the majority of the cards in my hand anyway. I sacrifice my Armored Zombie for my Dark Magician Girl!" The Zombie disapeared and the Dark Magician Girl came out and did a little twirl and then went into her famous pose. Sdrive smiled to seeing one of his favorite cards. The smile soon faded and the determination came back. "Next I play the magic card Mystic Plazma Zone. This increases all Dark Type Monster's attack by 500 and lowers their defence by 400. Go Dark Magician Girl. Attack the player!" The Magicain winked at Usma and then let out a blast of magic. Usma cried in pain as his life points plummeted. "I end my turn"

"Pretty good," Usma said (L.P. 5500) 'My goal is to summon Necos anyway' "I lay one monster in defence mode..."

"You lay him on guard. Not in defence mode." Sdrive said.

"Whatever, I lay him on guard and end my turn."

"First I draw he said drawing the Chaos Emperor Dragon. 'Kelly, I will save you.' Then I gain a 1000 point life boost. (l.p. 10,000) "Your trap is helping me more than it's helping you." Sdrive said grinning, then he started thinking. 'Let's see. I need to sacrifice a light and a dark type monster from my graveyard out of play in order to summon the Chaos Emperor Dragon. Too bad I don't have any light monsters in this deck.' "I lay one monster on guard and then I attack your on guard monster." The Dark Magician Girl let out a wave of magic and destroyed the monster. A leg appeared and got destroyed.

"Thank's, you have started my destruction of you by destroying my Left Leg of the Forbidden One."

"What's he talking about?" Kaiba asked him

"Usma has Exodia Necros in his deck," Yugi explained.

"What!? NECROS!" Kaiba said remembering his duel with Guzaboro.

"End turn."

"Perfect I play card Destruction we get rid of our hands and draw new ones," Usma said as he discarded his hand and drew a new one. Because of the the Eye of Truth Sdrive had to reveal his hand to Usma. (Magic Jammer, La Jin The Mystical Genie of the Lamp) "I play a card on guard and end my turn." Usma said. "Prepare to fall! HAHAHAHAHA"

Sdrive drew the Dark Magician So I don't get a power boost. That's ok. I lay one card under the table Sdrive said placing his Magic Jammer in the slot. Let's see you try to summon Exodia Necros now. And I play La Jin in attack mode. Plus it get's a power boost." The green genie appeared, it hummed and it got struck by lighting and grew bigger. (2300/600) "La Jin attacked the defender!" Sdrive called out. The Genie brought forth a ball of magic and blasted the card. An arm appeared and then vanished.

"Thank you a lot," Usma said smiling.

"Dark Magician Girl attack the player!" The Magician Girl attacked Usma. Usma screamed and fell to his knees as his life points went down. (l.p. 3000)

Sdrive ended his turn and Usma began. He had to take a few breaths to recover his stamina. He took about a minute and then began his turn. "I lay a monster on guard and end my turn."

"And now it's my turn. Too bad I can't summon my Buster Blader yet, because I really would like to. La Jinn attack the monster!" A furry three eyed monster appeared on the field and then got blow to pieces.

"I can search my deck for a monster with less than 1500 attack," Usma said as he looked through his deck and pulled out an Exodia piece.

"Magician Girl, Direct attack!" The mage girl went over to Usma and sent out an attack with small pink hearts in it. Usma's life points dropped to 500.

One more attack and you win," Mina called out to him.

"It must be so cool to be so strong," Stephanie said admiring Sdrive's Dark Magician Girl.

"End turn." Sdrive called out to him.

Usma drew his card and began his turn. "I lay a card under the table and a monster on guard and that will end my turn."

"This duel is mine," Sdrive said while drawing his Fusion. "I have a magic card in my hand now so I gain a Life point boost." (l.p. 11,000) "Next I activate Fusion to fuse my Dark Magician and my Buster Blader into Dark Palidin. And thanks to both my Mystic Plazma Zone and your Card Destruction It gains 1000 attack Points." The mage came forth clad in battle armor with it's long sword.(3900/2000) "Dark Palidin attack the monster on guard!" The mage swung it's sword into the air releasing a surge of energy.

"I activate Holy Barrier, Mirror Force!" Usma cried out as the attack got repelled and of Sdrives monsters were destroyed.

"Damn, Turn End.

"I lay a card under the table. It's your move."

I lay a card under the table and I end my turn."

"Well this is a pretty boring duel. So Why don't I pick it up a bit. I activate my down card Reckless Greed. I get to draw two more cards as long as I skip my next two draw phases. It's over! I play Heavy Storm! All of you face down cards are destroyed!" A Large surge of wind swept through the field blowing and started to blow all the face down cards to pieces.

"I say you don't! I activate Magic Jammer discarding a card from my hand." A seal was placed around the field and a purple fog came out. It got swirled around in the wind and the wind soon died down.

"Now I activate the destructive space powers of the Black Hole." Usma cried seemingly unphased by the Magic Jammer. "This destroys all the monsters on the field!" A black hole was puntched through the field and Sdrive could only stand there watching as the monsters on the field were sucked into oblivion. "I now have all 5 peices of Exodia in the graveyard. Now I Play Contract with Exodia!" A black monster that looked like Exodia came onto the field. It got struck by the ligtning of the Mystic Plazma Zone and grew stronger. (2300/0) "Exodia Necros can't be destoyed by magic, trap, or monster attacks. It stays on the field. I now activate Axe of Despair to increase it's attack Points by 1000 attack points." Exodia Necros gained a Big Axe and it grew stronger. (3300/600) "Exodia Necros! Attack the player! Show him your wrath!" Necros threw the ax at Sdrive. Sdrive, now thinking clearly, put up his barrier and the ax bounced off but his life points still fell. (l.p 7700)

"Sdrive you have to believe in the Heart of the Cards!" Yugi called out to him.

"Stay out of this!"

'This is quite interesting.' Kaiba thought. 'All he would have needed was a monster. But now it will be too hard to summon a monster with enough attack power to beat that thing. He doesn't stand much of a chance. However, back when it I faced Gozaboro I thought the same thing, and I still beat him easily, let's see if Sdrive can do what I did.'

"I have done enough pain for this round, So I will end it.

'I have to draw something good,' Sdrive tought. 'For Kelly.' Sdrive pulled his Thousand Knives card. 'This can't help me now. Wait! It will give me more Life Points.' (l.p 8700) "I can't do anything this turn so I pass."

"I can't draw anything but Necros does gain an extra 500 attack during my standby phase. He is now at 3800. So I will attack you and End my turn." Necros flung the Axe at Sdrive and the barrier appeared. (l.p. 4900)

Sdrive drew the Magical Hats and the Thousand Knives restored some of his Life Points due to the Eye of Truth. (l.p. 5900) "I pass again."

Necros will gain yet another 500 attack points bringing him up to 4300 attack. I'll attack and end.

(l.p. 1600) 'Come on Deck. I need to get to the finals so that I can beat Sayora. Sdrive closed his eyes, just then he felt something. But it wasn't physical. It was spiritual. He turned around in the blackness of his mind and saw Kelly. She was standing there smiling. 'I, I don't understand.'

'I told you I would always be here in spirit. Your friends are right. Your fighting for the wrong reasons.'

'I'm fighting for you.' He said. 'If I don't beat Sayora then I can't rescue you.'

'But if you don't fight with your heart then you won't beat Sayora.'

'I guess your right.' Sdrive said.

'One more thing. I might not be able to make to much contact with you. I am doing my best to talk to you now. But I am using a lot of energy. In my deck, you'll find-' And then she disappeared. He was upset, but he knew she was still there. If worse came to worse she would be the only thing to inspire him to keep fighting. His deck would see him through. "I draw!" Sdrive said pulling the card from his deck, his eyes suddenly opened. 'I could bring out the second Dark Magician. But it wouldn't be strong enough. I need something more. Wait! I have Magical Hats. This will be tricky but it's the only thing I can do.' "I gain Life points. (l.p. 2600) The power boost is really nice. But I still need to protect my Life Points. So I play Dark Magic Curtain to summon Dark Magician to the Field in exchange for half of my total life points. (l.p. 1300) The curtain came forward and let the Dark Magicain come forward. He got struck by lightning and got bigger. (3000/1700) "I'll lay a card under the table and end my turn."

I can draw now! Exodia Necros becomes a 4800 attack point monster. I lay a card under the table and have Exodia Necros attack your Magician.

"I activate Magical Hats. You have to find it now," The ax went towards the mage but he was placed inside of a hat and the ax sliced an empty hat.

"That ends my turn," Usma said.

'I need to think of a strategy,' Sdrive thought to himself as he drew Revive Dead. "My life points increase." (l.p. 2300) 'Let's see. I still can't use Thousand Knifes. It won't do anything. I can keep my life points strong as long as it stays in my hand. But by the time I draw something useful Necros will be too powerful. If only I could summon Osiris. But even then It's attack power would 2000. It wouldn't be enough. But I need a stronger defense.' "I can't really do anything, so I'll end-"

Usma cut him off. "I activate Solem Wishes. Everytime I draw a card I will gain 500 life points."

'Damn him,' Sdrive thought. "I'll end my turn."

"Let's see what I get," Usma said drawing his card. (l.p. 1000) "Look at that I gain life points. and Necors gains attack points. Its at 5300. There is no possible way to destroy it now. I lay a monster on guard and then I will attack your far left hat." Exodia Necros threw it's Axe and it sliced the hat on the far left.

"Your wrong again," Sdrive told him smirking.

"That ends my turn," Usma said irritated.

"I draw now!" Sdrive drew his card and saw that it was the Mirror Wall trap that he had won from Kelly. "Yess, first I gain Life Points (l.p. 3000) And then I will lay down the Mirror Wall I just drew, end turn.

'That Mirror Wall will be a problem,' Usma thought to himself as he drew his card. "Thanks to Solem Wishes I gain Another 500 life points. (l.p. 1500) "If I give you another turn you can use Mirror Wall twice, and in this case my Exodia Necros is at 5800 attack. Let's see. If It's cut in half then it will be at 2900 attack points. And if I wait a turn it will gain 500 hundred more attack points and it will be at 3150 attack points if I attack. Plus it will gain attack points. I think I will end my turn.

"Fine with me," Sdrive said drawint the Witch of the Black Forest. "And here comes my life (l.p 4300). You forget that I will only activate it when you attack. And the longer you wait the longer I gain life points and the longer I can keep it activated. Plus even when it's gone you will still have to go through my hats. You are only delaying your defeat. I lay a monster on guard and end my turn."

"I have had enough of waiting!" Usma said getting irratated (l.p 2000) "Exodia Necros is at 6300 attack points. Exodia Necros, Attack the Magical Hat on the right!" Exodia Necros flung the Axe at that hat. It hit the hat and destoryed the hat. A woman in black robes appeared and dissappeared. "Huh? Why didn't the wall go up?"

"You weren't aiming for the hat that held the Magician. So I let the attack slide. You hit my Witch of the Black Forest. I can now search for a mosnter with a defence of 1500 or less." Sdrive searched his deck and pulled a La Jinn.

"Fine! I end my turn." Usma said, the stress getting to him.

'I have to trust my deck,' Sdrive thought. He pulled his card and it was his Harpies Feather Duster. 'I could play this. But I would lose gaining life points. Speaking of whitch...' Sdrives life points rose to 5300. "I'm gaining more lifepoints than you are," Sdrive said pointing out that Usma's trap was helping him more than it was Usma.

"Well my monster is stronger," Usma said mocking him.

"True. End turn."

'The fool' Usma thought drawing his card. 'Out of all this time I will eventually come out victorious, it will be me who overall wins this duel.' Usma looked at his card and he smilled. "Perfect. First I gain Life Points. (l.p. 2500) "Next I play a magic card. Raregold Armor. The monster I equip this card to is the only monster that you can attack. And I am Equiping it to my Exodia Nexros which is at 6800 attack points. Go ahead Necros attack the last hat."

"And of course up comes the wall," Sdrive said.

Exodia Necros threw the Axe at the last hat. A wall came up and the axe hit the reflection of Exodia Necros. It lowered it's attack power by half. "Exodia Necros is at 3400. It's your turn."

Sdrive drew his Mystical Space Typhoon and smiled. 'This might be what Iv'e been waiting for!' "First I pay 2000 life points. but then I gain 1000 so I now I am at 4300. Now I play Mystical Space Typhoon on your Axe of Despair. Unless you want to sacrifice a monster then you lose your Axe of Despair for good!" A tornado struck the axe and it got hit by lightning and blew into hundreds of little pieces.

"I'll sacrifice my monster on guard to bring it back to my hand," Usma stated as the on guard monster dissapeared as Exodia Necros's attack power dropped.

"Your Exodia Necros is at 2400 attack points. I bring my Black Magician from my Magical Hats and if you remember his attack power is at 3000."

"Way to go. Your going to destroy it," Tea said."

"Not exactly seeing as how it can't be destroyed, however I can take away his life points. Black Magician attack his Exodia Necros right now Black Magic Attack. The Magician let out the blast of magic and hit the Exodia Necros. "That ends my turn,"

Usma's overall life points became 2400 when he drew his card. "Necros gains attack points. It's at 2900. And now I reequip it with Axe Of Despair. It's now at 3900. Your turn.

"I draw Rush Recklessly I lose and I gain. My overall life points is 3300" 'I need to think about this. Exodia Necros is at 3900. I might not get another chance. I can destory all his cards with the Feather Duster and stop him from seeing my cards and stop his Solem Wishes and his Axe. It will go down to 2900. I can attach Rush Recklessly My Dark Magician will go up to 3700. I can attack it and he will lose 800 life points. I have no other choice right now.' "I play the Harpie's Feather Duster. All your magic and trap cards get destoryed." A big duster came up and destroyed all the magic and Trap cards on Usma's side of the Field. "Now You can't see my cards. I play Rush Recklessly on my Dark Magician. Dark Magician, Attack Exodia Necros. The Magician ran at high speeds and shot a blast of magic at Exodia Necros. Usma cried out in pain as his life dropped. (Usma l.p. 1600) "That ends my turn," Sdrive said.

'I don't gain Life points and I don't get my Axe Back.' Usma thought to himself. 'Man I'm hurting. I need to finish this.' "I lay a card on guard and my Necros is at 3400. You have one turn left on Mirror Wall. So I end my turn."

"I have to trust in my deck' Sdrive thought. He drew his card and his life points dropped. (l.p. 1300) He looked at his card and thought about it. 'Interesting. Let's see. My Magician will go back to a 3700 attack point monster. Necros is at 3400 I can keep Mirror Wall up till the end of his turn. I have to hope that I can draw a card to help me' "I play Horn of the Unicorn on my Dark Magician. It gains 700 attack points. It's at 3700. Go attack Exodia Necros. The Magician let out a blast of magic and it hit the Black Exodia. (Usma l.p. 1300) "End turn."

"I lay a card under the table and Necros goes to 3900 Your turn and your Mirror Wall is gone. You can defend all you want but in the end I will win. I must say that it was an honor dueling you."

"Come on, you have gotten out of worse situations," Mina called out to him. "Like when you faced Osiris."

This information got Kaiba to shoot around and shout right at her. "He faced OSIRIS!!!"

"Yeah. Isis sent a man named Abiak to face him to give it to him. He said that she said that he would need it later on in the finals."

"Then I guess I'll have to face him in the finals," Kaiba said planning on facing the dragon.

'Trust.' Sdrive thought to himself as he drew his final card. Sdrive looked at his card and became dumbfounded. He didn't know what to think. This card had been a big help in defeating Osiris. And Now it would win him the duel. 'I have to lure him right into it though.' "First I destroy my Mirror Wall since I am unable to pay for it now." 'Thank You Kelly.' "Next I lay a card under the table. Finally I swich my Magician to guard my life points. End turn."

"Good Friend. I am sorry to inform you that you will not defeat me. I swich my Gradius from defence to attack. A plane like machine came forward. "It is time my friend. We may be tied but not for long. Exodia Necros is at gains 500 attack points and it's attack is no longer halfed. It is now at 8800. It's all over Necros. Attack the Black Magican. The Exodia Necros formed a final blast of magic. It threw it at the Black Magician. As it was nearing the Magician two Cylindars appeared. The blast went into one of the Cylindars.

"You have activated my Magical Cylindars. They will go in one cylindar and come out the other. And the attack will go straight to your life points!"

Usma stood in awe, he couldn't beleive that he was about to lose, him, the Necros duelest. The Blast came out of the second cylindar. It made contact with Usma and knocked him to the ground. (l.p. 0) The Holograms went away and the pain was healed. Sdrive went over to collect the prize that would help him get closer to the finals..

"I must say I'm impressed," Kaiba said.

"Wow. Good Job. I thought I had you for a second there. Congradgulations. Here is My Exodia Necros, My Spell Binding Circle, and Call Of the Haunted," Usma said as he handed the cards to sdrive. Suddenly his eyes glazed over. Sdrive turned and started to walk away.

"Aren't you going to help him?" Mina asked him.

"He's not my problem now. I have other things to do." And with that Sdrive walked off.

"That is highly annoying," Mina said. The gang took Usma to the hospital and went to Kelly's room. They were surprised when they didn't see Sdrive there. They left the Hospital and searched for a while. They couldn't find him. "Where could he be? Do you think he might have gone to hotel?"

"It's the only place we haven't looked yet," Yugi said.

"You guy's are staying in a regualar room aren't you?" Kaiba asked sneering.

"Why do you find that funny?" Yamato asked.

"I have the best room in the hotel I'm staying at."

"And they have a lot of cool cereal there too," Mokuba chimed in.

They started walking to the hotel. When they got there they went to the room. Yamato opened up the door and there they saw Sdrive. He was sitting on the bed with his eyes closed. "What is wrong with you? We have been searching for you," Tea said.

"Sdrive, Please stop acting like this," Nari pleaded.

"What! Are you saying I can't duel the way I want to? Well that's too bad for you!" Sdrive shouted at them.

"If you keep dueling the way you "want to" then you're going to end up getting yourself knocked out of the tournament," Yugi said trying to knock some sense into him.

"That's what you think. But I already said that I would defeat anyone who got in my way. Even you Kaiba."

"What? You think you stand a chance agianst me? You are a fool. You may have pulled that win from out of the blue but you wouldn't stand a chance agianst me!" Kaiba was furious that someone other than Yugi would challenge his title.

"I guess we will find out in the finals," Sdrive said coldly. "I'm leaving." And with that he ran towards the window and jumped out of it. He landed on a small landing. He jumped from that, flipped in the air, landed on his feet, and dissappeared into the night.

"I never saw him do that," Yamato said eyeing him."

"We have to follow him guys," Yugi said.

"No," Tea said suddenly. "I think only one of us should follow him."

"Why?" Yugi asked him.

"He is really grieving. Inside he's lost, and our big group is rather intimidatiing. "I think I should go."

"If you get challenged by a Rare Hunter you won't be able to defend yourself," Yamato said. "I'll go."

"I'm sorry Yamato but I'm going," Mina said.

"What?" Yamato asked.

"You may be his friend, and he may have learned a lot from you, but I don't think he really wants to listen to you."

"After looking through your mind I don't think he really wants to talk to you either," Yamato said.

"Yeah well too bad. I'm going. We talked on the plane. I think I hit a spot with him. Besides, your not really sensitive. I'm going." Mina ran out of the room and ran down the steps out of the hotel.

Yamato stood there pondering the recent transactions that had just happened with his friends, 'How did he pull off that stunt anyway?'

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Mina was walking around trying to find Sdrive. It was getting dark and it was difficult to see. She saw a little cliff and she could have sworn that she saw someone standing by the edge. "I might as well go there," Mina walked over to the small cliff. She climbed over a couple of rocks and soon got to the person. It was Sdrive.

"What are you doing here?" He asked her.

"I was about to ask you the same question."

"I want to be alone."

"Come on Sdrive. We only want to help you. Rember what you said on the Plane. You weren't going to be afraid."

"I'm not afraid," he said with a bit of wavering sterness in his voice.

"I think you are. Your afraid that if you have help from other people, it won't mean that you saved Kelly. Your afraid to let someone else save her." Sdrive didn't say anything. "We care for you. We want to help you. Everyone needs a little bit of help every now and then. It doesn't mean you didn't save her. It just means that you had friends who helped a bit. After all I know how you feel."

"What do you mean?" he asked her.

"Do you remember that guy who kidnapped my parents?

"Oh yeah," Sdrive said.

"Me and Nari were dueling to save them. And didn't we accept help from you and Yamato and Peace? We didn't pull a Seto Kaiba on everyone."

"I guess you're right," Sdrive said softening up a bit."

"We will help you. But first you have to accept our help. We can't do anything if you don't let us."

Sdrive finally gave up the fight. "You're right."

"You are starting to sound a bit like yourself agian. Your voice doesn't sound so cold and distant."

"I guess I owe you an apology."

"Already Accepted. Come on lets go back to the others. It's kind of cold out here."

"Here," Sdrive took off his red jacket and put it around Mina's shoulders.

"I see that you're starting to care for people again," Mina said to him.

"It was wierd. During the duel Kelly made contact with me through the Shadow Realm. She told me that I should trust my friends. You just gave me a reason to. You reminded me that on the plane I said that if anyone was in trouble that I would fight for them. But when I said that I meant I would fight with Passion, Trust, and Love. Not the coldness and anger I felt when I had to defeat Kelly in that Duel. Thank you for allowing me that. Wait!" Sdrive looked like he suddenly realized something.

"What?"

"Kelly said something about her deck before she vanished from my mind. I think she wanted me to go and find something in it."

"Well what are we waiting here for? Let's get to that Hospital."

They were just about to run off when two robed figures appeared in front of them. "Who are you?" Sdrive asked.

"We came here for Mina. Now step aside. Your coming with us," the first Robed figure said.

"Oh am I?" She asked.

"Yes," the second figure said. "There is a nice bouty on your head." The two robed figures rushed at Mina. Sdrive jumped in front of Mina and kicked the first robed figure in the chest. The second one took a swing. Sdrive side stepped him and stuck his leg out, dropped onto his hand and tripped the second robed figure. The hoods fell off of the two figures and their identities were revealed.

"Gale and Delano!" Mina cried out.

"Yes," Gale said. "We have come for you. Since your friend doesn't want for us to take you without playing fairly then we will take you by defeating you in a duel. We will face you and when you lose we will take you to our master."

"Dream on. Bust out your cards and duel," Mina called out inserting her deck.

"Hold on!" Sdrive called out. They turned to look at Sdrive. "Two on one isn't fair," he said inserting his deck into his duel disk. "So I will duel by Mina's side." Sdrive for the first time in hours was smiling. Mina saw this and couldn't help but smile herself.

'He's back to normal,' Mina thought to her self. 'But he still seems to have fire in his eyes.' "Are you still ok?"

"Oh yeah. I can be my normal self outside of duels. But inside I'm going to be filled with Determination. I said I would fight to help my friends. I am keeping my word."

"Be quite and duel," Delano said. "My Rare Cards are Acid Trap Hole, and Robbin' Goblin."

"And mine are Magic Jammer and Seven Tools of the Bandit," Gale said.

"Sky Dragon of Osiris, Mirror Wall, Exodia Necros, Chaos Emperor Dragon, Spell Binding Circle, Call Of the Haunted and the card I started with. Dark Magician."

"Dark Magician and Summon Skull!" Mina said.

"Since we have a lady on our side of the field we will go first," Sdrive said.

"Not so fast," Gale suddenly said.

"What do you want?" Sdrive asked.

"Although we will let you go first we are changing the ruels of Double Dueling," Delano said.

"Why?" Mina asked.

"Let's just say we know some things that you don't," Gale said. "First of all, it won't be like a regular Double Duel. Instead of having Mina go first then me then you kid and then Delano you will both be taking your turns at the same time. So that means that you will both be going first. And then we will go."

"You are allowed to sacrifice each others monsters in order to summon stronger ones," Delano continued. "The Duel Disks are programmed to allow this. Also, you will be playing with Team Life points. Each team only gets 8000 life points. You don't each get 8000. So in other words if we attack you and you lose life points. You will both lose the same amount of life points."

"Those are the rules," Gale said. "Live with them or don't duel."

"Fine, we will. It that just means you lose twice as fast," Sdrive said smiling. Sdrive turned and gave Mina a thumbs up. Mina did the same.

"Lets get started," Mina said as the drew their opening hands. I lay a card under the table and I play Battle Ox in attack mode. A bull in armor appeared holding a big Axe.

"And I too lay a card under the table and I play La Jinn," Sdrive said. The Geine appeared and Hummed.

"I play Dian Keto the Cure Master," Mina said (MS l.p. 9000)

"Are you done Mina?" Sdrive asked. Mina nodded. "Ok we end our turn."

"Good, we begin now," Gale said. "I play Dark Hole Annialating all of your monsters." A hole appeared in the center of the field and sucked the monsters into it.

"I will play my Dark Fire Soldier #1," Delano called out. A soldier appeared in a burst of flames. He suddenly fell into the ground.

"I activated Trap Hole," Mina called out.

"Well I play White Magical Hat." Gale called out. A man in a tuxedo wearing a White Hat Appeared. He fell into the ground.

"And now I activated my Trap Hole," Sdrive said grinning.

"Fine. I don't have anything else to do," Gale said.

"Niether do I," Delano said.

"So then It's our turn," Mina said. "I summon the Rogue Doll (1600/1000) in attack mode!" A doll appeared.

"And I play Armored Zombie and Mystic Plazma Zone!" Sdrive called out. The Decaying Zombie appeared on the field. A storm cloud appeared and the Armored Zombie got struck by lightning. (2000/0) Then they both cried out at the same time, "Armored Zombie and Rouge Doll, attack the Players! The Zombie went and slashed them with it's sword while the doll let out some magic and blasted them. Thier life points dropped to 4400. "That ends my portion of our turn," Sdrive said.

"Same here," Mina said.

"Fine it's our turn," Gale cried out as they each drew thier cards. "I play Ancient Telescope. I get to see the first 5 cards of your deck Sdrive."

"Why me?" He asked.

"Becuase I don't trust you."

"Fine," Sdrive picked up the next 5 cards of his deck and showed them to Gale.

"Delano, if we don't beat them in the next two turns then we are going to lose!"

"Then's let's stop them. I play Blackland Fire Dragon, and thanks to your Mystic Plazma Zone it..."

"Don't waste your breath," Gale cried out. "I sacrifice it to bring forth Patrian of Darkness."

"Hey. My guy got a Field Power Bonus!" Delano whined.

"So does mine, plus mine has a better effect!" Gale shot back A Dracula type vanpire in a flowing black cape appeared. It got struck by lightning and grew bigger. "My Patrian of Darkness is now at 2500 attack and 1000 defence. I get to choose where your attacks are sent. But for now I'm doing the attacking. Go Patrian of Darkness, attack the Rouge Doll. The Patrian of Darkness shot out a blast of dark magic from his hand. It made contact with the Rouge Doll. The rest of the blast went towards Mina. Sdrive put up his shield to protect them. Thier life points dropped to 8100 "We end our turn."

"Then let's begin," Sdrive said. "I'll lay a card under the table."

"I too lay a card under the table," Mina said. "Are you done Sdrive?"

"Actually I'm not. I sacrifice my Armored Zombie and summon Black Magician Girl!" The Zombie Dissapeared and the Dark Magician Girl appeared. She twirled around and stood in her famous pose. "Now I'm done."

"It's time to destroy you both," Gale said.

"We have ways to stop you," Delano told them.

"Yeah sure, just make your move." Sdrive said.

"FINE! I play the Inexperienced Spy, I get to see one of Mina's cards." Gale chose a card and looked at it.

"I play Monster Reborn to bring back your Armored Zombie back on guard," Delano said. The Zombie returned.

"You have activated my trap Just Desserts!" Mina cried out. "I'm sure you know what it does." A foggy hand appeared and sucked away Gale and Delano's Life points leaving them with 3400

"I send Patrian of Darkness to attack Mina's Life points," Gale cried out. The Zombie started to let out a blast of dark magic. Mina prepared for the blast but heard Sdrive call out.

"I activate Spell Binding Circle to stop your attack!" A circle of magic appeared around the zombie and trapped it.

"No! RRG! I can't let you win. But I have nothing to do. I end my turn."

"Ditto," Delano said.

"It's time to see what your so scared of." Sdrive drew his card. "I see, Ya know Mina, we could win this if we had more monsters on our side of the field."

Mina took the hint. "I can do that. I play Change of Heart, I take your Patrian of Darkness Gale!"

"NO!!" Gale cried out.

The Patirian of Darkness switched over to Mina's side of the field. "Is that good?" She asked him.

"The more the merrier," he responded slyly.

"Ok, I play Monster Reborn, To bring back their Blackland Fire Dragon. Is that good?"

"Yeah I like that number. I now sacrifice Black Magician Girl, Blackland Fire Dragon, and Patrian of Darkness in order to summon Sky Dragon of Osiris!" The card appeared and then a burst of light flung up to the sky, the sky got even darker than it already was. A big red dragon came down and roared at the two other duelists' blowing up dust from the cliff. "I have two cards in my hand making it's attck power 2000." Sky Dragon of Osiris's stats were shown briefly. (4000/4000 "Huh? Why is it so high?"

"Becuase you have team lifepoints the cards in each players hand are sort of combined." Gale said. "Although you can't use your team mates cards and your combined totals if they equal more than 6 don't force you to get rid of a card you can still add onto it's attack powers."

"I have two cards as well," Mina said.

"I like this, this shows that teamwork and friendship does pay off. Go Sky Dragon of Osiris, release your Thunder Force upon the Armored Zombi! The Huge dragon let out a blast of energy that engulfed the Armored Zombie. "That ends my turn, make your final pathetic move."

"We're dead," Gale said. "We can't summon anything of use right now."

"I end my turn," Delano said.

"Same here."

"Would you like to finish them off?" Mina asked drawing her card.

"It would be a pleasure," Sdrive said drawing his card watching Osiris get stronger. "Sky Dragon of Osiris, attack the players!" The Blast rammed into the two men. They got knocked down and screamed in pain. Their life points reduced to 0.

The pain retreated and the holograms disappeared. "I guess we just have to take you by force," Gale said.

"Why bother?" Mina asked. "You are just going to go to the Shadow Realm in like 10 seconds or less."

"Oh yeah? Well..." Both Delano and Gale fell to the ground unconcious.

"Now that that's over I say we take some rare cards. What do you want?"

"I'll take Seven Tools and Acid Trap Hole." Mina said.

"And that leaves me with Magic Jammer and Robbin Gobblin. I guess we should go take them to the hospital," he said looking down at them questioning the logic of taking them to the hospital.

"I guess," Mina said with the same look on her face. They took them to the hospital. They were going to go see Kelly but visiting hours were over. "I guess we could come back tommorow." She said.

"Yeah let's get some sleep." Sdrive said. The two tired duelists went back to the hotel. The gang had gone to sleep. Mina went into her room and went straight to bed. Sdrive got into his room where he saw Yamato reading a book.

"You look beat," Yamato comented at Sdrives tired look.

"What? No stupid apprentice stuff anymore?" Sdrive asked smiling a little.

"So, Mina convinced you you were being a jerk?"

"Yup, and then we had a run in with Gale and Delano. So we dueled them."

"Gonna crash on the bed?"

"I am. See ya in the morning."

"Yeah sure."

With that Sdrive layed down. As he drifted to sleep he was thinking of Mina and the duel. He thought of how it was cool he was spending time with his friends out in a different country participating in a tournament. He thought of all the help they would be in his fight. The last thing that floated through his head was an image of Kelly. 'Don't worry. You have friends that will help you.' he thought to himself before falling into a deep sleep.

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Sdrive: And there you go. I hope you all enjoyed it. Ok a couple things. One that is the end of my dueling streak for right now. Next chapter, Joey faces a Magic Seeker. ok respond to reviewers.

Zenryo: Shi: Watch me care. Sdrive: Knock it off I respond to reviewers. Thanks for the compliment for the title. I forgot the last zero I know. Drug users should be purged.

Nari-chan SND: That's good. Your welcome. Thanks.

Dais: Yeah it was. Thank you very much.

Instability and Chaos: I hope you didn't. Yes you are unique. Thanks.

Peace Writer: That will be learned later. I know about the effect I just forgot to say that they swiched it back. I thought I had. Wrong! Giant Trunade brought it back to their hand. When they put it back down that's when Palidins effect activated. I'm not always wrong you know. The reason for Isis's servant being mean will be explained later as well. That is what it says on the card. That is the spelling. I know it looks weird to me too XD. I actually toyed with the Idea but I decided not too. Thanks for the help. I'm sure if there is anything wrong here you will criticize me for it. LOL. Thanks.

Mina-chan AMD: Thanks. Wow Even Kaiya agreed. Sorry about the tests and quizzes but at least you enjoyed it. Yes she is. Maybe we will someday. Life threating situations are FUN! F is for friends that do stuff together, U is for U and Me. N is for Nywhere and Nytime at all, Down here in the deep blue sea. So now we have both sang a song. That's ok. Thank you.

Sdrive: Well that is the reviewer's big applause.

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Sdrive: Attention! I am trying to plan out the finals but I need Deck Designs and characters. I need about 20 decks and characters. Tell your friends about this story and have them give me people. And when you send me people please give me thier decks stats, like Attack Power, Defence Power, and Any effects they might have. Please help me with this. Thank you greatly in advance. chances are your people will lose, I feel I have to tell you that now. But If you could please send them anyway, I need about 20 characters and decks. You will help me jedi mind tricks

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