Sdrive: Well, here we are, the duel that might be one of the toughest for me to write, a duel with Mina.
Mina: HEY!
Sdrive: No offense, but it will be hard to come up with a new deck idea for you. But, I think I have my sights set on one kind of deck, so hopefully it won't be too hard for me. Hmm, also, anyone here that reads Sky Top Duelists, that will be on hold for a little while. The only reason is I lost the sheet that has who everyone will be dueling and when and without it I am really kinda stuck. So bare with me, once I find the sheet, I will write the next chapter. Until then, enjoy this chapter.
Disclaimer: -whistling in cell- I don't understand how I got caught with a crime I never commited.
Jail Man: Your free to go, turns out you weren't claiming to own Yugioh, it was that guy over there -points to guy-
Kazuki Takahashi: But, I DO OWN IT! I CREATED IT! SOMEONE, HELP ME!
Jail Man: Sure ya do -rolls eyes- you and all the other people out there.
Mina was walking through Perth, and her long brown hair was blowing in the wind. She had her Duel Disk attatched to her arm and her deck in her jacket pocket. Nari was walking next to her, her hair also blowing in the wind.
"I'm really glad I'm not dueling anylonger," Nari said to her sister. "I don't think I could stand losing again. The Shadow Realm was NOT fun."
"I can understand that," Mina said. "However, I need to stay in, cause the finals are right around the corner, and who knows what that mad woman might do to the players who don't make it to the finals."
"Thats true," Nari said looking up at the sky. "You don't have to lose a duel to not get to the finals. You need to hurry, how many cards do you have again?"
"So far I've gotten 6," she said. "As far as I know I'm one of the leaders of our group. Sdrive had the most but some of the others might have caught up." Suddenly they saw Peace running up to them. "Hey Peace!" Mina waved.
"Yo," he said. "Guess what, I'm officially in the finals," he said holding up his 15 cards."
"Excellent," Mina said high fiving him. "I still have 6, I'm hoping to get another duel today."
"Maybe I can help you find a challenge," Peace said.
They heard a slight snikering and saw a man with blonde hair and an American bandana wrapped around his face. He was wearing a leather jacket and a vest underneath that. "You, think your going to make it to the finals? A little girly like you?"
"And who do you think you are?" Mina asked annoyed at being called a 'little girly.'
"I'm Bandit Keith, the top American player, and I'm going straight to the top."
"Didn't you go crazy a little while back?" Peace asked. "I could have sworn I heard that in the newspaper about a year ago."
"Shut up!" Keith shouted. "I went to counsling! There is no such things as magic or anything like that!"
"Tempermental?" Peace asked.
"Shut up, listen, stay out of my way," Keith said standing up.
"If your so confident you will win, why don't you take me on in a duel," Mina said.
"Duel you? That would be a complete waste of my valuble time. I have 12 rare cards, Why would I want to waste my time with some little kid?"
"Because if you beat me you will be in the finals," Mina said getting rather upset at Keith.
"Ya know what, why not, it will be an easy victory, I might as well."
Mina let out a 'hmph' and pulled out her deck. Her Duel Disk unfolded and the holo projectors flew out. She inserted her deck and the Duel Disk lighted up. Keith did the same and they were ready. "Lets Duel!" they cried out.
Yamato and Sdrive were walking out of the hospital, they both needed one more duel and they were in the finals. "Well, I guess there is nothing much for us to do but look around for a challenge," Sdrive said.
"I think my duel is already getting ready to be set into motion," Yamato said, "That's if what Yuko said was true."
"Yeah, I guess so," Sdrive said, "I guess that just leaves me." Suddenly Sdrive spotted Mamimi running up to them. Sdrive smirked and stepped forward. He pulled his deck out and unfolded his Duel Disk. He inserted his deck and it lit up. "I beleieve I have found a challenge. I've been waiting for this for a while."
"I think you are going have to keep waiting," Yamato said.
"Why is that?" Sdrive asked looking at Yamato questioningly.
"Take a look at her face, she seems worried."
Sdrive took a closer look and realized that what Yamato said held true. She looked more than just worried, she looked like she was about to lose it. Mamimi ran up right infront of them and bent over and placed her hands on her knees, desperatly trying to catch her breath. "Please," she gasped out, "help...me."
"Whats wrong?" Yamato asked.
"Tak-kun...ran away," she said catching her breath a bit more.
"Wait, that little cat of yours?" Sdrive asked.
"Yes, she's the most important...important thing in my life. I need to find her, I would do anything to get her back."
"I can understand what it's like to lose something close to you," Sdrive said taking out his deck and deactivating the Duel Disk. "We'll help you find him, right Yamato?"
"It would be the right thing to do," Yamato said. "We should split up, we can cover more ground that way."
"I agree," Sdrive said turning to Mamimi, "Don't worry, we'll find your cat."
"Thank you," she said smiling softly. "I haven't checked that way yet," she said pointing to the West.
"I'll go North," Sdrive said.
"And that leaves me with going East," Yamato said. "Meet, I'll call you if I find him," he said to Sdrive.
"Ditto," Sdrive nodded. They started running off when Yamato spotted Joey walking towards the hospital with a man with a black cloak on. He ran up to him and helped Joey.
"Thanks man," Joey said. "That dude was heavy."
"I'll carry him and then you have to check him in, I'm on a missing cat hunt."
"Oh, ok," Joey said. "I'll go out and help afterwards I suppose." Yamato explained it to Joey while they headed towards the hospital. Sdrive and Mamimi had gone in their appointed directions.
"Since you don't have a chance at beating me, I'll be nice and let you go first," Keith said to Mina.
Mina let out another hmph and then drew her hand. "I'll summon my Shining Angel!" Mina said as an angel appeared on her side of the field. (1400/800) "I'll also set this card under the table and end my turn" Mina said as her card appeared face down on the field.
"Hehehe, fairies?" Keith said mockingly. "Wow, I see that you have no chance of winning little girl."
"Don't listen to him," Peace said.
"Yeah," Nari said. "You can't be beat by this guy."
"You're cute, but you can't beat me," Keith said as he drew his hand. "I'll summon Mechanical Chaser!" Keith said as his machine appeared on the field (1850/800) Go, and attack the puny Fairy!" The Machine flew towards the Shining Fairy and stuck it's spear inside of it. The Fairy blew up and the rest of the attack hit Mina. Mina:7550/Keith:8000.
"When you attacked my Shining Angel you activated it's special Abiltiy allowing me to search for one Light Type Monster in my deck with 1500 attack or less and place it on the field, I choose Hoshiningen!" Mina said as the small star with brown shoes appeared on the field. (500/700)
"So? It's so much weaker than my Mechanical Chaser, I should have known that you would play such a weak monster," Keith started laughing.
"You have over looked my Fairies special ability. It automatically gives 500 extra attack points to all Light types," Mina said as her Hoshiningen grew 500 attack points. (1000/700) "Also all Dark monsters lose 400 attack points," she said as Mechanical Chaser lost 400 attack points. (1450/800).
"It's just like an Ameture to rejoice when there is nothing to celebrate," Keith said laughing. "I'll lay two cards under the table and end my turn."
"It's my turn," Mina said as she drew her card. "I summon Thunder Nyan Nyan!" Mina said as she placed the card on the field. A red haired girl with a tiger striped shirt and drums infront of her appeared floating on a small cloud above the field. (1900/800) Since she's a light type she also gets an extra 500 from my Hoshiningen." The Nyan Nyan grew stronger and Mina smiled at it. (2400/800) "Go Thunder Nyan Nyan, attack the Mechanical Chaser!" The Nyan Nyan drummed on its drums and lighting fell from the cloud. It blasted the Mechanical Chaser blew up and the lightning went on to hit Keith. Mina:7550/Keith:7050.
"Well well, it seems you do have a bit of talent, but it's still not enough to beat me," Keith said smiling.
"Go Hoshiningen, attack the player!" Mina cried as the star floated over to Keith.
"Heh, its so like you to make such an ameture mistake," Keith said grinning. "You forgot all about my face down cards."
"If you had anything to stop my attacks then you would have done it by now," Mina said as the star got closer.
"Oh yeah? Go, Time Machine!" Keith called out as his Trap Card flipped up. A large Machine appeared on the field and the Hoshiningen stopped. "This card will bring back one monster that was destoryed during the Battle Phase in the same position it was destoryed in. So come back Mechanical Chaser!" The Machine opened and the Mechanical Chaser came out of it. (1450/800)
Mina let out a small growl, "Hoshiningen can't beat it, but that doesn't mean I can't still do more damage to your life points. I activate my face down Trap Card, Solar Ray, for each Light Type Monster on my side of the field you lose 600 life points! So since I have two Light Types you lose 1200 life points!" Mina:7550/Keith:5850. "That ends my turn. Still think I'm weak?"
"As a matter of fact I do, you have such a simple strategy. I'll show you some real action," Keith said pulling a card from his deck. "Check this out I summon X Head Cannon!" Keith said as a machine with two large cannons mounted on its sides appeared on the field. (1800/1500) "This is paticular Machine is also a Light Type so it also gains the 500 power boost," Keith said laughing a very annoying laugh. (2300/1500). Then I'll activate another Trap Card, MetalMorph!" Suddenly X Head Cannon grew even more metalic and his stats raised (2600/1800)
"Whats going on?" Mina asked stunned.
"Peace, is Mina going to be ok?" Nari asked worriedly.
"It will be hard, MetalMorph gives X Head Cannon an extra 300 attack points and then it will go up by half of whatever Mina's monster is attacked."
"Oh no!" Nari said worriedly, "Stay strong big sis!"
"How can she stay strong when she's about to lose a large chunk of her life points? X Head Cannon, attack Thunder Nyan Nyan!" The Cannons raised up towards the Nyan and it started to grow even stronger. (3800/1800) The Cannons went off and decimated the Thunder Nyan Nyan. "Now go Mechanical Chaser, destory that stupid star!" The Mechanical Chaser pushed it's spear through the star and it blew up.
Mina was horrified as her life points dropped 50 points lower than Keiths. Mina:5700/Keith:5850. Sdrive came running up at that point as X Head Cannon dropped down to a 2100 due to Hoshiningen being destoryed and Mechanical Chaser going back up to a 1850. "Woah, your taking on Bandit Keith?" He asked.
"Yeah, he thinks he's so tough, but he doesn't stand a chance against my big sister," Nari cheered.
"Quiet down you little brat," Keith said. "Your sister is going to lose, just like everyone else has."
Sdrive looked worried, "Can you handle him on your own?" he asked Mina.
"Heck yeah, he hasn't got a chance," Mina said smiling.
"Ok," Sdrive said a bit less worried. "Have any of you seen a small black cat run by here? Tak-kun I beleive the name is, the one Mamimi had with her."
"Nope, sorry dude," Peace said.
"Alright, I'll have to keep looking. I really wish I could stay and wach Mina, but I promised I would help find the cat."
"Don't worry about it," Mina said giving him a thumbs up. Sdrive nodded and then ran off again calling back luck. Mina turned around to face Keith again, "So, anything else in there?"
"As a matter of fact yes, I'll set one card under the table and end my turn."
"Draw!" Mina called out as she pulled her card from the deck she looked down at it and placed it in her hand. "I'll set one monster on guard and then I'll lay one card under the table and that ends my turn."
"Hehehe, can't do anything else can you?" Keith mocked. "I can do plenty however, like summon this, Y Dragon Head!" A mechanical dragon appeard on the field with its metal claws sparkling in the light. (1500/1600) "It's over for you kid. Go Mechanical Chaser, attack her monster!" The Mechanical Chaser went towards the monster Mina had on the field and ran it's spear through it.
"You attacked my Mystical Elf, it has a Defence of 2000, your Mechanical Chasers attack has been repelled."
"Way to go Mina!" Nari Cheered.
"Like I said, you celebrate at the worst possible times, I activate the Quick Play Spell Card, Limiter Removal, now all my Machines attack powers are doubled!"
"Oh no!" Peace said, "This is bad, Mina will lose the duel!"
Mechanical Chaser (3700/800), Y Dragon Head (3000/1600), X Head Cannon (4200/1800). The Mechanical Chaser easily destoryed the Mystical Elf, "hahaha, you lose, go X Head Cannon and Y Dragon Head, finish her off!"
"Not so fast Bandit Keith!" Mina called out, "Reverse Trap, Waboku!"
"No!" Keith growled as three monks appeared and protected Mina from the attacks of the Y Dragon head and X Head Cannon. I set one card under the table and end my turn. Suddnely the Mechanical Chaser, Y Dragon Head, and X Head Cannon all started sparking and blew up.
"What just happened?" Nari asked Peace.
"While Limiter Removal doubles the attacks of all Machines on the field it also destorys all Machines at the end of the turn," Peace explained.
"Awesome," Nari said, "That gives Mina a chance then."
"A small one, but a chance," Peace said a bit worried. "Keith didn't become the number one duelist in America on shear luck."
Mina drew her card and smiled, "I activate the Field Card Sanctuary of the Sky!" She said as she flipped up the Field Slot. "This will protect me from any damage I take when my Fairy Monsters are destoryed. I summon another Shining Angel and have it attack you!" Another Fairy appeared on the field and it started forming a ball of light.
"Reverse Trap," Keith called. "Its another Time Machine," he said laughing. "This time I resurect my X Head Cannon," The Time Machine doors opened and the X Head Cannon Emerged from out of it.
"I end my turn," Mina said dissapointed.
"And now it's my turn," Keith said grinning. "I activate Pot of Greed," Keith said placing the card on the field. You're through now kid, I activate Junk Dealer!"
"What does that do?" Mina asked.
"It allows me to special summon one of my machines with half of its original attack power, and I choose my Y Dragon Head!" The Mechanical Dragon appeared on the field (750/1600) "Now I summon Z Metal Tank!" Keith announced as a yellow tank appeared on the field. (1500/1300)
"Oh no," Peace called out, "Mina, he's going to summon the XYZ Dragon Cannon!"
"How right you are geek," Keith called out. "Now I remove X Head Cannon, Y Dragon Head, and Z Metal Tank from play in order to Special Summon XYZ Dragon Cannon!" The three machines started to combine together, the X Head Cannon connected to the top of the Y Dragon Head while the Y Dragon Heads mechanical feet inserted into the top of the Z Metal Tank. (2800/2600) "My XYZ Dragon Cannon allows me to discard one card from my hand in order to destory any card on the field."
"No!" Mina called out."
"Yup, so now I discard my last card to the graveyard and use Cannon Fire Storm to destory your Shining Angel!" Keith called out. The Y Dragon Head Part let out a blast of lightning from its mouth as as the X Head Cannon's cannons shot out a blast of energy as well as hidden cannons on the Z Metal Tank. The energies blasted the Shining Angel and it was destoryed. "Since I destoryed your Fairy using an effect you can't special summon another monster, too bad. XYZ Dragon Cannon, attack the player!" Keith shouted. The Cannons Charged up and blasted Mina. She took the full brunt of the attack and her jacket and hair flew straight into the air due to the blast. Mina:2900/Keith:5850.
"Are you ok?" Nari called out to Mina.
"That was not fun," Mina said dusting herself off, "but I'll be ok," Mina said pulling the top card from her deck. "I activate my own Pot of Greed!" Mina called out. She drew her two cards and then smiled. "I special summon Watapon!" She called out as a little white creature appeared on the field. (200/300) "This card can be special summoned to the field when he is drawn outside of the Draw Phase. I now Sacrifice Watapon to summon The Agent of Judgment-Saturn!" Watapon dissapeared and taking it's place was a Fairy with large purple wings, it wore a unique purple and white robe. (2400/0)
"Sorry kid, but it's not strong enough to defeat my XYZ Dragon Cannon," Keith said snickering.
"It's better than being left with only 100 life points," Mina said. "I set one card under the table and end my turn."
"Ha, what a waste," Keith said drawing.
"I'll give Mina this," Peace said looking on at the duel, "Keith has been left to topdecking, which means he either plays what he pulls or he uses the Dragon Cannons effect once."
"But she can still win right?" Nari asked.
"I sure hope so," Peace said.
While Peace and Nari were talking Keith was laughing his head off, "I activate Monster Reborn, and now I bring out Machine King!"
"But I never destoryed that monster!" Mina protested.
"Don't you remember when I sent my card to the graveyard to destory your stupid Fairy? I discarded Machine King, and now he's back. Thanks to his abiltiy he gains an extra 100 for each machine on the field, I count two so he's now a 2500. Go Machine King, wipe out her Agent!" The Machine King shot out it's missle hands and they went straight towards The Agent of Judgment-Saturn.
"Reverse Trap!" Mina called, "Mirror Force! This trap will destory both your monsters!"
"No way!" Keith exclaimed as the robot arms bounced off the multi-colored barrier and one smashed into the Dragon Cannon and one Smashed into the Machine King himself. They both blew to pieces and Keith stood there shocked. "NO WAY!"
"What are you waiting for Keith? Afraid to be beat by a girl?"
"I end my turn," he said extremely pissed.
"That makes it my turn!" Mina called out. Peace and Nari were yelling cheers at Mina as she drew her card. "I summon another Hoshiningen!" She said as the star appeared on the field. It pumped itself and the Agent up. Agent (2900/0), Hoshiningen (1000/700). "Hoshiningen and Agent of Judgment, attack the player!" The Agent sent out lunar energy that smashed into Keith causing him to fall backwards, then the Hoshiningen tackled Keith. Mina:2900/Keith:1950. "With that I set my last card under the table and end my turn," Mina said.
'I'm about to lose to some kid,' Keith thought. He pulled the card from his deck and grinned. 'Awesome, this Cyber Jar will win it all for me,' he thought. "I'm going to lose but I might as well set this monster on guard and end my turn."
"Oh your right that you are going to lose, activate Trap Card, Solar Ray! I'm sure you remember what it does."
'Damn,' Keith thought. 'No matter, I still have this duel in the bag, as soon as she attacks my Cyber Jar, its all over.'
"Since I have two Light Types you lose 1200 life points." Mina:2900/Keith:750. Mina drew her card but didn't look at it. "I'm on to you, you want me to attack that monster, but you are over looking one big thing, my Santuary of the Sky and my Agent of Judgment. As long as my Life Points are higher, I can sacrifice my Agent when Sanctuary of the Sky is on the field and do damage to your life points equal to the difference of our life points. Peace, what would the total be?"
"2150," Peace said proudly.
Mina smiled, "It's time for the Agent to Pass Judgment, and he judges that you lose, go Agent of Judgment Saturn, use your special ability to wipe out the last of Keiths Life Points!" The Agent started to swirl power all around it's body, the planet Saturn appeared behind it and Saturn's Rings appeared around the Agent. It released all it's energy and the rings flew towards Keith. They knocked him backwards as his life points dropped all the way to zero. Mina:2900/Keith:0.
"Way to go Big Sis!" Nari cheered.
"Congratulations," Peace said nodding.
Mina walked over to a cowering Keith. "No way I lost to a geek!" he said to himself. Suddenly he started freaking out, "No! I can feel that strange presence again! MAGIC ISN'T REAL!" He screamed "MAGIC ISN'T RE..." His eyes glazed over and he fell backwards unconcious. Mina gasped and Peace and Nari ran over to pick up Keith.
"He was taken to the Shadow Realm, just like I was," Nari said looking down at Keith.
Peace went into Keiths jacket and took his 12 cards, handing them to Mina. "We'll win this tournament, we'll get everyone back."
"I know," Mina said quietly looking down. Peace went to pick up Keith and Nari helped a bit, together they headed off for the hospital.
Up in the Battle Tower Sayora looked on with interest at the cameras that were secretly hidden throught Perth. "How very interesting," she said watching Peace, Mina, and Nari wobble Bandit Keith towards the hospital. "That girl has gotten exceedingly better since the begining of this tournament." She then looked over towards three other monitors, Sdrive was was power walking through the streets looking frantic, Mamimi was running calling Tak-Kun's name, and Yamato was slowly walking looking up and down the streets. "So have they, they seem to be growing even more stronger as well. This should be fun," Sayora said laughing a playful laugh."
Sdrive was running through the streets of Perth looking for Tak-Kun. Suddenly he heard a small meow and he saw Tak-Kun with his paw caught in a crack. He heard a loud rumbling sound and saw that a big truck was going right for Tak-Kun. Suddenly he heard Mamimi's voice, "TAK-KUN! NO!"
Sdrive ran toward the area where Tak-Kun was caught. He dived down next to Tak-Kun, got her paw unstuck from the crack, and then jumped away from the spot with Tak-Kun in arms. They rolled away just as the truck drove by. Mamimi ran towards the two she dropped down and took Tak-Kun in her arms, she was crying, "Oh, Tak-Kun, don't ever leave me again." The small black cat licked Mamimi's cheak while Sdrive caught his breath.
"That has got to be the stupidist thing I have ever done," Sdrive mused to himself as he caught his breath."
Mamimi turned to Sdrive, "You could have been killed! Why did you do that?"
"It was the right thing to do. It was the stupidist thing to do, but it was the right thing to do," Sdrive responded.
"I guess you would have also done that for any of your friends huh?"
"You bet, if they needed me, I would be there for them."
Mamimi looked down at the ground, "I'm sorry for being a pain. I owe you big time, not to mention that was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me, or Tak-Kun. Do you think maybe we could start over and be friends?"
Sdrive smiled a bit, "Sure," he responded. He helped Mamimi up when suddenly his mind flashbacked to when Itonami saved the Paraoh's cat and how afterwards Mahado became Itonami's friend. "No way," Sdrive said to himself.
"What?" Mamimi asked.
Sdrive shook his head, "Its nothing, I just thought I saw something, but I was wrong."
"Oook," Mamimi said as if she didn't exactly beleive him.
"Come on, I have to call Yamato, and then you said you had such a hard past, I think I would like to hear it." Mamimi gave a small nod and Sdrive pulled out his cell phone.
Sdrive: Wow, that chapter wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. That chapter was actually really good. The best? Probably not, but it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be. Yeah, it was pretty fun to write. I wanted to make Bandit Keith cheat but I knew that he would be disqualified on the spot since the Duel Disk would have recognized it. Oh well. Review time,
Reaver: I never used to think the Archfiends were all that good until I saw Peace duel, then I changed my mind. Peace does have some good writing tactics. The Pandemonium Watchbear was destoryed and thats how Pandemonium itself was destoryed. If you remember, the reason there were modifications was because its the second round of the tournament and Joey got those new Booster packs. Plus the Spear Dragon he won in a duel was also in there. Thanks.
Peace: Yeah I can understand that. Well thank you, I'm glad you said that, I was actually worring everynow and then if Rourke was out of character for you. HEHEHEHEHE, I DID put that Jinzo bit in there and Joey WOULD say it. Of course, he wouldnt' be talkign about exactly about what you know it comes from but, all in all, he would say it. He is a stree kid if you remember. Spelling mistakes my arse, and we can't all be the best, but it's a great day when I spot one of your mistakes hehehe, but all in all thanks.
Zenryo: I can't beleive you put that bit in there. OMG lol. Yeah, that took us all back didn't it. Lets all go and think back to when we first met -thinkingLooks around- Alright I'll continue! -audience takes away knives- Sheeshe, anyway. Ok, one might say this, why did that creepy clown man who sniffs glue have to lead Yugi into that tent which then took him right into Pandora's tent? Anyone could have fallen in that trap. SO HA! Oh well, thanks anyway.
High Elf: Yeah, I was pretty pleased with that one too. I'll check out your story I promise. I won't stop this story, you don't have to worry about that. Yay, I'll have a new reviewer for Sky Top, -sad- which is on hold since I can't find my chart that will allow me to continue -takes out sheet of paper and pen- Note To Self, next time type it down.
Sdrive: Thanks everyone, you are all lovely. Next chapter, is double trouble. A Tag Team Matchup with a most unlikely pair, and yet, it seems to work so well. Patience people, this one will take a while.
Power to the Hikari's