Sdrive: Ok well not much to say here. So Here we go.

Disclaimer: Haven't done one in a while but let me get creative, ok If not owning is the same as being broke, then my being broke should logically mean that I don't own it! Yes, very good.

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They had all beein standing around waiting for Nari to open her eyes. They all started thinking that they had failed. Suddenly Nari started to move around. She opened her eyes and the look in them showed pure gratitude. "Thank you, thank you so much for saving me from that awful place." Mina bent down and hugged her sister. She wouldn't let go.

"I was afraid I was going to lose you forever." Mina said. She just held onto her sister.

"Thanks to all of you I am no longer there. I realize that I can no longer compete, but I don't really think I would want to now anyway. Come on lets get going sis." Nari stood up and Mina went up with her. Nari looked up at the clock on the wall and saw the time. "Hey, doesn't that meeting for all duelists start in 10 minutes?"

"WHAT!?" They all said at the same time, the looked up and saw that it was now 2:20. "Wow, time flies when your saving lives," Sdrive said. "Hey, before we go, we should have a quick card standings. I have 9 cards."

"I have 2, but I haven't dueled much yet.

"6" Mina said

"2" Yugi said.

"3" Joey said

"9" Peace said.

"7" Ryou said.

"5" Alice said.

"What a coinidene, I have the same amount as that kid with that weird Ribbon" Mamimi said.

"All right, let's go, let's rock and roll Sayora over!" Sdrive said as the ran out of the room. They ran throught the streets untill they were at the meeting place.

They all waited a few more moments until some guy in a fancy uniform came out. From behind the small setup stage. "And now, Mistress Sayora!" He said.

Sayora walked out from behind the curtain and suddenly started getting yelled at from the duelists. "What the hell is going on here?"

"I lost my best friend!"

"What is the meaning of this?"

"How do you expect us to pay for the hospital bill if we lose?"

Various other sounds were being shouted out at her. "People, people come down. Let me explain everything. This is called the Masters Tournament is it not? So you must be prepared for anything and everything. That was only the first half of the tournament. It was to elimanate anyone who wasn't strong enough to make it this far, as for thier condition, It's all just a little trick. The duel disks sent in a small electric pulse that will keep them unconcious until the end of the tournament. I assure you your loved ones are fine."

"THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!" Nari shouted at her. But no one seemed to notice her. "Why didn't anyone here me?"

"It was me." Sdrive said holding up the Harp. "No one is going to believe you, especailly since you are awake and you still have your duel disk on your arm. People will just think you are trying to be a problem, so I made them all immune to anything you say. I'm sorry but I just don't want people mad at you."

"I guess I understand."

"Now that that is all taken care of, it is on to the purpose of this meeting, Your decks." That got a few startled expressions from some of the duelists. "As we all know a duelists deck is an important part of any tournament. And any future, Master, is going to make many changes to thier decks. So, I have decided to help you all out. All throught the town there will be shops that will be giving away two free booster packs to each duelist competing, you may buy more if you want but you only get two free. You may make any changes to your deck if you want. The rest of the day is dueling free. Make changes to your deck and go back to one of the receptionist desks and scan your new deck through. You may duel today if you want but if you do not go to a reception area first then you will not be allowed to use the changes. You must make your changes and get them scanned by midnight tonigh, if you don't then you will not be able to change your deck. I wish you all good luck, make a nice new deck. Oh, and if any of you were wondering, the whole pain thing will end now. You will no longer be in pain if you lose lifepoints. Good Day." Sayora then left the stage.

She got in the limo and it started to drive off. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed a number. "Are you ready?"

"Yes," Said a strangely familiar voice. "But are you sure that it is all very nesicsary. What I had to do to Yugi seemed pretty intense."

"Yes, this will be a true test of your strength. I have faith in you. Continue to duel worthless opponents in the tournament but only take one of the two boys to the "Special" arena."

"As you wish princess." And he dissconected.

"You almost have to feel sorta bad for him," Sayora said. "Almost" and with that she gave a small, sinister chuckle.

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"Changes, to our deck?" Sdrive said it again in his head, 'Hey, I could make those changes I wanted to make!, cool!' "Come on, lets go." Sdrive and the others all went to one of the farther markets away.

"Why did we go so far away?" Mina asked.

"Simple," Sdrive said.

"Not many other people will go that far, they would rather go to one closer, so this way we have a better chance of being less crouwded," Yamato finished.

"Right," Sdrive said. They all kept walking until they found a promising shop. They all started heading over and picking out the booster packs. Once they were all together Sdrive started to pull out his wallet. He looked through it and pulled two hundred dollars. He handed them to Yamato. "Have the others pick out more booster packs. My treat. I'm gonna go search for some more my self." They all just stared at him wide eyed.

"How come you never told us you were loaded?" Mina asked.

"And where did you get it in the first place?" Yamato asked.

"What? You guys surprised that I have money?"

"I'm must say for once I'm quite surprised," Yamato said. "You never had this kind of money back at the Orphanage."

"And why do you say that?"

"You mean you had that money all along?"

"Yeah."

"Then why did you stay there?" Yamato was for once pretty baffeled

"Oh, something about me being so young that I couldn't be living by myself, or something like that, so I got thrown in that damn place. One day I finally just said screw it and left. Then when I met up with Ryou I got a place to stay, they couldn't say I was living by myself anylonger. That and I wouldn't have let them take me back anyway." Sdrive said smiling. With that he went off to find more booster packs. He looked through the different kinds. He focused and started pulling random packs from the show cases. He went to the cashier and bought them. He found the gang and walked over to them. "Well, this is interesting, it seems that the great Yugi Moto never has to buy his own cards hahaha,"

"I don't want to feel like I'm being a mooch," Yugi started.

"I'm just joking with you Yugi, ok guys, I'm heading back to the hotel. I want to make any new nesicsary changes. Well I'll see you all later." Sdrive walked out of the store and headed over to the hotel. Before he got there he thought he saw a kid dressed in some pretty strange clothes. He shrugged it off and kept walking. 'Must just have a unique fassion sense' He thought. He got into his room and pulled out his deck and the miscellanious cards he had brought with him. He pulled out the booster packs he got and opened them up. He looked at them with interest. There were some pretty good cards in them. He then got to one with the Dark Magic Ritual Card. "Awsome! Now..." He flipped through his binder until he came to the Magician Of Black Chaos. "...I can finally use you." He started flipping through his deck, taking cards out of his deck and replacing them with dark and light monsters. He came across a card in the packs that he couldn't beleive he had found. "Oh, yeah this is so going in my deck. He added the card and then came to the Maiden of the Aqua. "hmmmm, this could be intersting if I tried this." He added some cards Then he came across some cards that he hadn't really looked at in a while. "Hey, these would be awsome to use." He held the cards and looked at them.

The first card in his hand had a picture of what looked like the Mystic Box card yet it had three boxes, they were red, and they were open. The Box on the left had a Witch of the Black Forest in one box, the one on the right had a picture of the Sealing Swords of Light, and the middle one had a picture of the Dark Magician Girl inside of it.

The second one he held had a picture of two Duel Monsters Decks. A curved arrow pointed down from the deck on the left to the deck on the right. And a curved arrow pointed up from the deck on the right to the deck on the left. The word SWITCH was in between the two decks.

The final card was a fusion monster. The bakground had the same circle of symbols as the cards that the Dark Magician's had. The picture of the monster on the card was very unique. It looked like a Magican with long red hair with black highlights. It had a golden staff in it's hand with a pink jewel embeded inside of it. It had dark red robes on worn in the traditional style of the Magicians. It had golden wrist cuffs at the end of sleeves. "Master Magician" was written in gold letters on the top of the card.

"These cards should definatly help me." Sdrive said to himself

"Oh really?" Shi said in spirit form next to him.

"What do you mean? And why do you care what happens to me?"

"First of all, I really don't care what happens to you. The sooner you lose the sooner I can continue my plans. And besides, I look at that one card there..." he pointed to the second card "...and I wonder how you plan on using it?"

"I guess it would require a second deck."

"And you only have one other deck on that belt of yours. Mine. Do you really expect me to allow you to use my deck? I would have to take over."

"Perhaps. You do realize that I don't have to use this card. I only used it becuase I thought it would be fun to mess with Kelly using it. But in a tournament..."

"In a tournament it could possibly save your life. You are a fool if you choose not to put it in. See for yourself, you have two of them, one for each deck." Shi took over one of Sdrive's hands and took his deck out of the deck holder on the side of Sdrive's belt. He slid one of the cards into his deck and placed it back into the deck holder. He relinqueshed control over Sdrive's hand. "See, simple as that. You may not realize this yet, but you are a weakling, and if you have any chance of survival, you need my help. But whether or not I give it to you, that is an entirly different story. Hehehe. So, what other cards do you posess in your stupid binder?"

"I have a few more packs to open." With that Sdrive opened the packs. Suddenly Shi took over Sdrive's hand again and took a card from one of the packs and placed it in his deck. "Hey! What did you do that for?"

"I have been looking for that card."

"It was my card!"

"And now it's mine!"

"Hmph, whatever. Hey cool!"

"What? Not that I'm really all that interested."

"Oh you will see later." Sdrive said smiling at a card he held in his hand. He put the card in his deck. He made a few more changes and was finally happy with the final product. "All right here we go." Sdrive walked out of the hotel and went to one of the check in stands. On his was he saw the kid he had noticed earlier. 'It's him again. I can't help but think that he is one unique kid' He thought.

On the other side of where he was Mamimi was just finishing up registering. She saw Sdrive and decided to stay and watch him. He got up to the register and insterted his deck. It then looked as if him and the register were having an argument. The register pulled out a cell phone and started talking into it. After a few moments of being on the phone the register looked at Sdrive apolegetically. Sdrive then ran a second deck through the scanner. He punched in his Duel Disk's ID and then got out of line and started walking in the opposite direction.

"I really shouldn't go butting into his affairs." Mamimi said to her self. "but if he is getting some kind of special treatment I'm gonna be pissed." She decided to go after Sdrive. "Hey! Sdrive!"

Sdrive looked behind him and saw Mamimi coming up to him. "What is it you want this time?"

"I was wondering what was with the whole second deck thing."

"That is nothing you have to concern your self with."

"I think it is something I definatly have to concern myself with. You have some kind of advantage, and if you don't tell me what it is and get me the same advantage, I will go around telling everyone that you have an unfair advatage."

"It is nothing I can help you with. It concerns a card I own. That is why I ran my other deck through the reader. It concerns that card. I am sorry but I can not help you. And besides, even if I could, I don't think I would."

"And why is that?"

"Becuase, you aren't exactly the nicest person to me. You aren't exactly a friend to me. If you cut back on your bad aditude then maybe we could be friends."

"I have reasons for the way I act. Things that you could never understand."

"And why is that?"

"Becuase, you have never gone through the things that I have. You have never had to expierence the pain that I have. I'm leaving." And with that she walked off.

'Sparkling personality.' Sdrive thought to himself. With that he turned to walk off. He went back to the hotel and when he got there a thought occured to him. He left the hotel and went to the Hospital. He went to Kelly's room and held on to her hand. "What should I do about her? She is such a pain. Yet, she could also be very helpful. I wish you nothing but survival." He got up and went back to the hotel. He saw Yamato sitting in a chair reading.

"Yo."

"Yo Yourself, so you make any changes to your deck?"

"Yes, I will begin to duel tommorow. I wanted to wait until I was able to take down some one with a lot of cards. Preferably a Rare Hunter."

"Yeah. He if you don't have anything else to do, I was wondering if we could talk?"

"About what Idiot Apprentice."

"Well, say I have been keeping secrets from you this entire trip, or, more correctly, ever since I knew you."

"How would that be possible? And why would you want to, I understand about Kelly but what else would you have tried to hide from me?"

"There have been some things that I have done and expierenced. I didn't want anyone to know about it. But pretty soon it will all be revealed, not yet, but soon. So I guess my real question is, would you promise to always stay by me and help out no matter what would happen. I didn't want to admit it earlier, but I have this sneaky suspicion that Sayora is keeping a big part of this tournament from us, and an even bigger part about the finals. I didn't want to have any help before, but now I think I might need more help than I first expected. So, will you stay by my side no matter what happens?"

Yamato got up and placed his hand on his friends shoulder. "You really are my Idiot Apprentice aren't you. You are my student, I am your teacher. Of course I will stay by you. We have a deep connection to each other. Remember Orynez? You stood by my side and helped me defeat him. Now it is my turn to help you."

"Thank you. One more thing. What if, I was a bit better at Duel Monsters than I first let on? Would you still stay by my side."

"I am your teacher. No matter how good a person is, there is always some one who is better, and there is always something new you can learn in the game. I helped you learn more than you may have know originally. You are still my apprentice, and even more than that, you are my friend. You have no worries as long as you believe in the connection we have."

"Thanks."

"Come, let's take a walk." And with that they left the hotel to go walk, teacher and apprentice, friend and friend.

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Sdrive: And there you go. The newest chapter. Now I have to thank the reviewers and find out where the rest of the cast is with the tournament standings. Then I will write that in, so there is really no reason for saying that since I will change it but oh well. Here are the reviewers.

Mamimi: What do you mean? Too lazy to sign in. I knew people would be upset becuase of the cliffy. Yay Sayo! Got the e-mail. Bye waves by to Mamimi

Silver Dragon Iron Claws: You'RE nice to me it's just normally I spot those mistakes and I will normally change them and normally it's Peace or Zenryo that fix them. Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. And yes DWyrm it is a cliffy. Yes you are appearing soon. CONTRACTIONS!!!!!!!! Those damn Contractions are going to give me some contractions!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mina: Yay you could read it. Thank you. Who know's if Nari will be ok? If your reading this before the actual story then I will not say anything. People are tricky like that. ALRIGHT! PEACE AND MINA LISTEN AND LISTEN GOOD!!!! 1. You were desperate! You had no monsters and no cards to protect yourself with. If you had decided to wait for a monster then chances are he would have pulled on and gotten rid of you. 2. Suppose he didn't pull a monster and you did on the last turn. If you remember back he says something like "If she tries to attack me, my Magical Cylindars will obliterate her." 3. If you were in a situation like that where you could be sent to the Shadow Realm at the end if you lost you would play the burn card! 4. Your deck doesn't give me a whole lot to work with when you have to face a beat down. 5. I really need you to change your deck! As you see you can because Sayora is such a wonderful person, now excuse me while I go and gag myself. So please change your deck! I beg of you! Onwards. Yes I realize world battle was taken off. I'm sorry.

Zenryo: Well now you realize not. No I can't let you hit Mamimi. protecting Mamimi Don't worry he won't hit you. Mamimi: smiles Sdrive: Of course this is a different Mamimi I'm talking about. You can't hit the Mamimi in the story either. But I won't protect that one too much yet, hehehe. When I got back there was NO updates of ANYTHING!!!!! Yo Isanai, let Mokuba come in and eat 5,000 pounds of sugar, and while he is bouncing off the walls throw the retards at him to try to stop him. There ya go, best I can do at the moment. REVIEW THIS TIME!!!!

Peace Writer: You better keep that Miroku stance if you know what's good for you. Damn you get annoying with the spelling errors, I realize they are there. No he isn't but still. Um, Some Dude probably Just.

Some Dude: I just disappeared. Like I always do. Sdrive: WHO ARE YOU!!!!! Some Dude: disappear Sdrive: No!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway. Because he wanted Mina to give up so that he could claim it. That's what he ment. Look at Mina's reveiew. See ya.

Well that is all, hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Power to the Hikari's