11. Begin! Battle Royale!
"Eahhh?! A surprise battle tournament?!" Hide and Kyu said, both in shock at a poster on the bulletin wall.
"Yeah, it's the Battle Royale Competition where each high ranked students battle it out like a battle royale competition." Doxx said, smiling. "I'm going to be in it this year."
"Alright! That means I'm in too!" Kyu said, holding his fist up for victory. "You too Hide!"
"No way! I'm too weak!" Hide said.
"Don't you remember? The duel with Asakawa!" Kyu said, patting him on the back. Hide suddenly smiled excitedly.
"This is important too. This years prize is going to give the Number 1 Duelist a scholarship for the Duelist High Prime Academy!" Doxx said.
"Duelist High Prime Academy?" Kyu said.
"Really!" Hide said, in complete shock. "There duelist academy where all the top rankers in the world go to!"
"It's everyone's dream, even Quartz." Doxx said. "Maybe sometime I'll be there."
"Who won last years?" Kyu said.
"Forgot, it's been that long and people don't bother to remember if they lost." Doxx said.
"So you were beaten?" Hide said.
"I confess, yeah, I guess I was too run up on the prize." Doxx chuckled. "I'll get going now, see ya!"
Yukie walked into her room, yawning from the late night stay. Sophia and Genesis had informed Yukie about the Battle Royale Competition. But due to Yukie's late entry in the school, her rank wasn't very high, but Sophia and Genesis promised that they'd find a way to get her in.
Yukie entered, collapsing on her bed and trying to take a nap. She couldn't sleep, worrying what she could miss in her classes.
"I should study..." She said, walking to the desk and sitting down. She saw Kyu's messy pile of cars, but a strange item caught her eye.
She looked at a card and took it. "Guardian Grarl?" She thought. Yukie remembered what Sophia told her and quickly whipped out her deck, searching through her deck. She couldn't find her own Guardian Grarl and hesitated, thinking Kyu had stolen her card.
Suddenly the door opened. Kyu and Hide popped in, laughing. "Yukie! You're back!" Kyu said happily, putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Don't touch me..." Yukie hissed, swatting his hand away.
"Uhh, sorry..." Kyu said, confused.
"What was this doing in your deck?!" Yukie screamed, showing her Guardian Grarl.
"That wasn't in my deck..." Kyu said.
"Then why did I find it in your stupid deck?!" Yukie said. "You know, Sophia told me about your sinister ways and how you like to put weaker duelists down. Well you know, I'm not weak duelist!"
Yukie got into Kyu's face. Kyu backed off a little. "Yukie! Wait, what are you talking about?" Hide asked.
"You only wanted to duel me because you thought you could make a fool out of me! How could you!" Yukie said, pushing him aside and running off.
"Woah... What was all that about?" Kyu thought, running out the room to see Yukie turn the corner.
On the other side, Sophia and Genesis chuckled to themselves. "This is going great!" Genesis said.
Kyu and Hide lost sight of Yukie, searching everywhere for her. "Why did she think that?" Kyu said, scratching his head, making himself feel bad. "Where could she have heard such things and how could she think I'd steal her cards..."
"I don't know..." Hide said, sitting down on the freshly cut grass.
"I feel so awful..." Kyu frowned, sitting down next to Hide.
The next day, classes for the Duelist attending the Battle Royale Competition were cancelled. "Just to let you guys know, we won't be staying in fancy rooms no more. This competition lasts for two days." Doxx informed. "Just pure forest and tents for us now!"
"Awesome!" Kyu said.
"Oh no..." Hide said.
"This reminds me of when I went camping with my dad! We had so much fun fishing, cooking, and doing everything a camper would do!" Kyu said as a militant handed him a bag full of supplies.
"I hope the bugs won't bother us." Hide said.
"I wonder where Yukie is... I haven't seen at all since that incident..." Kyu said.
"I hear ya." Doxx said, remembering back to when he and Kyu were talking about the incident. "It's not like of her to act that way. She's just an innocent duelist. She probably got the wrong impression of you and had that duel in her head for a while. It's like if you lose a duel, you think back to what you've could've done to prevent something."
"I see..." Kyu said.
"But let's just have fun and worry about Yukie later!" Doxx said. "I mean, this is big!"
The three duelist entered a different entrance to the forest. It was cold and quiet. The three duelist set up their campsite.
"What's this..." Doxx said, walking up to a poster which was recently posted.
Warning: Eliminator Bots will disqualify any duelist not dueling.
"Uh oh..." Doxx said.
"What is it?" Kyu asked.
"Look like Kaiba Corp's added a new system to the game, to make it quicker." Doxx said.
"Eliminator Bots?" Hide said, in shock. "You mean we could just get disqualified if we're doing nothing?"
"It's used to get duels going, make the tournament a lot quicker, we should stick together, and start a duel incase one shows up." Doxx warned.
"Ugh I hate this! Why can't they put the tournament near the beach where it's warm and sunny?!" Sophia complained, lugging her heavy bag.
Yukie remained silent, still hurt and angered by the fact that Kyu betrayed her as a friend. "Come on, Yukie, cheer up we're here to have fun!" Genesis said.
"How can I have fun if I have no more friends..."Yukie said.
"You're our friends, just trust us." Sophia said.
Suddenly rustling in the bushes were heard, suddenly an Osiris Red student tripped over a bush, in front of the three girls. "Asakawa?" Genesis said, shocked.
"Heh! Hey girls." Asakawa said, cooly standing up.
"What are you running from?" Sophia asked.
"Eliminator Bots, they're everywhere! If you're caught not dueling, they'll disqualify you!" Asakawa said. "So I challenge one of you three to a duel!"
Asakawa's duel disk folded out and he slid his deck into his deck holster. Genesis and Sophia gave a sly smile. "Yukie, take this guy out." They both said.
"Why me?" Yukie asked, rather confused.
"You're down in the dumps, a good clean duel will rise your spirits." Genesis said, hiding behind a tree.
"Yeah besides, we need some practice first." Sophia said, hiding behind another tree as a camera bot came floating in.
"Uhh right!" Yukie said, letting her duel disk fold out. She slid her deck in.
"Duel!" Yukie and Asakawa announced as their life points rose up to 4000.
"Draw!" Asakawa announced, drawing his card. The eliminator bot watched the duel, acting as a judge. "First, I'll summon a monster in defense mode, then set a card face down and end my turn!"
"Draw!" Yukie announced, drawing her card. She gasped, taking Guardian Grarl on her first draw. Just the looks of it caused her anger to rise, seeing Kyu's face in the card. "I'll defeat you, Kyu, no matter what it takes..."
"I like the spunk in that girl. She can really join us now." Sophia snickered.
"I'll summon Back-Up Guardian, in defense mode! (2200/500)" Yukie announced as the blue demon materialized onto the field. "I'll then activate this, Gravity Axe! Equipping this to my Back-Up Guardian, increasing it's attack points! (2200/800) Also, you won't be able to change your monster's battle positions!"
"No problem, my deck is filled with defense powers." Asakawa said sharply.
"Heh." Yukie said. "Next, I'll set two cards face down and summon this!"
"Another monster to summon?!" Asakawa said in shock.
"Because of it's effect, I can special summon it to the field when it's the only card in my hand!" Yukie explained. "Go! Guardian Grarl! (2500/1000)"
"A guardian monster..." Asakawa said.
"Now! Attack his defense monster now!" Yukie announced, pointing her hand forward.
"Reveal monster! Big Shield Guardna! (2600/100)" Asakawa announced.
"No..." Yukie growled as the dinosaur punched the warrior's giant shield. The shield remained strong and the dinosaur jumped back and Yukie's life points reduced to 3900.
"Big Shield Guardna would already be placed into attack mode after you attacked, but your Gravity Axe keeps it from moving at all." Asakawa chuckled.
"My turn ends." Yukie announced.
"Draw!" Asakawa announced, grinning. "Now I activate this, Cost Down! This will reduce every monster in my hand by two levels, so now I can summon this freely, Total Defense Shogun, in defense mode! (2500/1550) With this, I can attack while it's in defense mode."
"Hmph..." Yukie said.
"Next I'll add this, Gondola's Hidden Power!" Asakawa announced, placing the card onto the field.
"No!" Yukie gasped.
"With this, I can discard all the cards in my deck but ten, making my Total Defense Shogun's attack power triple!" Asakawa announced as the warrior roared with power, it's attack power increasing to 4650. "Now! Attack and destroy her Guardian Grarl!"
The warrior whipped out it's giant blade, slashing it across the dinosaur warrior, splitting it into two pieces. Yukie growled as her life points reduced to 950.
"No! Yukie is doomed now!" Sophia said upset.
"Don't worry about it. We haven't seen much of this girl yet." Genesis said, confident in Yukie's win.
"Activate trap card!" Yukie announced. "Rope of Life!"
"With this I can revive Guardian Grarl back from my grave by the price of my hand, I have no cards so it automatically returns with a boost of eight hundred attack points!" Yukie announced as her trap card began to glow, releasing a rope into the ground. The rope pulled up and the dinosaur warrior jumped from the ground, it's attack points standing at 3300.
"You've barely touched my life points, how do you think you'll even be able to win this duel with most of your gone?" Asakawa teased.
"I bet you're exactly what Kyu's like." Yukie growled, clenching her fist. "I'll show you wrong!"
"What?" Asakawa said, confused.
"Draw!" Yukie announced, drawing her next card. "Reverse trap card! Breaking of The Border Line!"
"Breaking of Border Line?" Asakawa said, oblivious to the cards effect.
"This is a permanent trap card and once it's activated, any defense monsters destroyed will take a chunk out of the owner's life points equal to the total defense of that one monster." Yukie explained. "Now! Attack and destroy Big Shield Guardna, Guardian Grarl!"
"No!" Asakawa growled as the dinosaur warrior punched through the warrior's shield, destroying the monster.
"And now Breaking of The Border Line is activated!" Yukie announced as her trap card began to glow. Asakawa looked in shock as his life points reduced to 500. "I take the lead..."
"Heh, but what makes you so sure you'll win?" Asakawa taunted.
"Because of my face down card!" Yukie announced. "And I activate it now! Go, Clone Type 2!"
"No..." Asakawa growled.
"This magic card creates a clone of my Guardian Grarl!" Yukie announced as a transparent version of her Guardian Grarl formed, with equal attack and defense of her original Guardian Grarl. "Now! Attack his Total Defense Shogun!"
"But it's too strong..." Asakawa stuttered.
"Wrong! Your monster is in defense mode, which will now end this duel!" Yukie announced as the dinosaur warrior punched through the warrior. The effects of Breaking of The Border Line took effect, eliminating all of Asakawa's life points.
"Master Kaiba, the first duelist has been eliminated." Isona announced.
"Good, send him back now." Kaiba instructed, looking in front of the giant computer screen.
"No! This can't happen!" Asakawa said.
Suddenly a helicopter was heard. Kyu and Hide saw it, floating above as a net dropped. The net fell onto Asakawa and it closed around them.
"Now!" Asakawa said, thrashing in the net. "I want a rematch!"
Asakawa was pulled into the helicopter and taken back to the school. "Well done!" Sophia cheered, coming out from behind the tree.
"Yeah! You're definitely the duelist, way stronger than Kyu-Haru!" Genesis said, high fiving Yukie.
"Thanks..." Yukie said. "But that was just practice, I have my eyes on Kyu and him alone."
"That's alright, release your anger like that! We do that to win!" Sophia said.
"Let's set up camp, I need a rest from all this hiking." Genesis said, laying down a long piece of plastic flooring.
"Looks like someone was eliminated." Doxx said.
"Wow, looks like they're serious about eliminations." Kyu thought, watching the helicopter fly away.
"Yukie I don't know if your our there, but please understand... Someone has been telling you lies, I don't know who... But I will do anything to make things right..." Kyu said in his mind. "I just hope you haven't go and went against me..."
CARDS PLAYED
Back-Up Guardian: Level 4 / 500/2200/ Dark / Demon.
Gravity Axe: EQUIP MAGIC / Desc: A monster equipped with this card can increase it's ATK power by 500. As long as this card remains face-up on the field, monsters on your opponent's side can't change their Battle Positions.
Guardian Grarl: Level 5 / 2500/1000/ Wind / Dinosaur / Desc: This card can only be Summoned Normally, Flip, or Special Summoned when there is a "Gravity Axe" on the field. If this is the only card in your hand, you can Special Summon it without any sacrifices.
Big Shield Guardna: Level 4 / 100/2600/ Earth / Warrior / Desc: Negate the activation of a Magic Card that designates this 1 face-down monster. At that time, flip this card into face-up Defense Position. If this card is attacked, change the Battle Position of this card to Attack Position at the end of the Damage Step.
Cost Down: MAGIC / Desc: Discard 1 card from your hand to reduce all monsters in your hand by 2 Levels for the rest of the turn.
Total Defense Shogun: Level 6 / 1550/2500/ Light / Warrior / Desc: When this card is successfully Normal Summoned or Flip Summoned, change it to Defense Position. This card can attack while it is in defense Position. (Damage Calculation is Applied Normally)
Gondola's Hidden Power: EQUIP MAGIC / Desc: Remove all but 10 cards from your deck to triple the ATK of the equipped monster.
Rope of Life: TRAP / Desc: This card can only be activated by discarding your entire hand when 1 of your own monsters is sent to the Graveyard as a result of battle. Special Summon the monster just sent to the Graveyard in face-up Attack or Defense Position, and increase its ATK by 800 points.
Clone Type 2: MAGIC / Desc: Create a duplication of one monster on your side of the field. You must sacrifice half of your life points for the duplicated monster to attack. Destroy the duplicated monster at the end of your turn
Breaking of The Border Line: PERMANENT TRAP / Desc: Each time a player destroys their opponent's Defense Positioned monster, inflict damage to the owner of the defense monster's Life Points equal to the amount of DEF of the destroyed monster.