"Ok, bring um on, I'm itching to duel and I'm taking on the next player we see," Joey said running to the cliff.
"You know I'm not sure if Joey's up to this," Téa said.
"Yeah, there are tournament level players here, don't you think he's smart enough to realise –"
"Here I stand the next duel monsters champion!" he cried over the side of the cliff he was on, we all groaned.
"He needs a reality check," Téa said.
"He's about as smart as he looks," Tristan said.
"He'll be fine, he has us to help him out." I said staring at him, he looked deep in thought which was not a normal look for Joey, we all walked up behind him, and Tristan sat down crossed legged.
"Look there!" Téa said as we all heard a roar of cheering.
"Duel monster stadiums," Tristan said. "Look at them, there all over."
"You said it, lots of duelling going on," Yugi said.
"Right," Joey said. "I'm going in."
You sure you want to do this you lose and you give up your only star chip." Tristan said.
"That's right," Téa said as Joey fell to the floor.
"Don't panic," Yugi said.
"Yeah, get up idiot," I said laughing at him.
"You can do this Joey," Yugi said. "You do know that don't you?"
"I hope your right Yugi. This will be my first official duel and I can't afford to get knocked down at the start."
"True," Yugi said. "But not everybody here is a pro, I'm sure you can find someone here on your level."
"Go for someone easy Joey," Téa said.
"Er, then I guess I should think about what kind of field my cards are best suited for." He said looking at his cards I looked at him in approval, he was showing strategy. "There mostly monster and fighter types, er, I guess this makes this meadow field my kind of turf."
"That's right Joey," Yugi said. "See you know what you're doing."
"You lost cry baby now give me your star chips," I heard a horribly familiar voice laugh.
"A voice that annoying can only belong to Mai," Téa said, as Mai began to laugh again as she put her star chips in her glove. We all headed over, I would be very happy to knock her out if I had enough chips.
"Wow, Mai's already won two more star chips," Joey said.
"Hey Yugi, are your duels going well," she asked when we were close enough.
"I'm making progress," he said as she grabbed his hand to examine his glove.
"So you have four star chips do you. I might be up for a duel myself."
Téa whispered something in Yugi's ear and I had a good idea of what it probably was.
"Hmm you know I'm defiantly in a mood for a duel right not, so get ready cause I choose to challenge, you Joey." She said pointing at him.
"What? You challenging me?" he said shocked.
"Get it, I wanna play you kid," she said.
"Ha, I guess you heard about my skill," Joey said.
"Don't flatter yourself," she said. "I overheard you, Yugi and er…" she looked at me pointedly.
"Mana," I said.
"Right, I heard you three talking about how she gave you your only star chip you have, my motto is take out the weaker players first," she said winking at him. "And considering that you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Mana hadn't given you one of her chips you've got to be thee weakest duellist on the island."
"Hey do you have to be so insulting," Joey grumbled.
"This time she was being truthful," Téa said, Joey made a shocked cry. "Mai's ruthless don't duel her first."
"Don't you get it, if you lose this contest your out for good." Tristan said.
"Yugi stand up for Joey," Téa said. "You have to fight her in his place."
Yugi looked between Mai and Joey.
"This is his decision to make, show Mai what you're made off," Yugi said to him.
"Right, she thinks that I'm a push over, but she'll see." Joey said.
"Yugi!" Téa said looking at him.
"You can't be serious Joey!" Tristan said to him.
"I've never been more serious," Joey said. "Don't you see this is my big chance to prove myself. To show everybody. Don't forget Gramps trained me. I mean sure he didn't get to finish my training and granted I wish –"
"You'll do your best and win or lose that's all you can do," I said before he could panic himself.
"I accept, let's duel." He said to Mai.
"Get ready to lose." She said. They got into position.
"Go get her Joey," Téa cheered.
"Kick her butt," Tristan said.
"Yeah," Joey said as the duel box reached the top.
"Hey miss," I heard a voice behind me, we all turned to see a kid.
"What?" I said wondering why he was interrupting.
"You, me, duel in that ring there," he said showing me a ring about one hundred metres away.
"Sorry, I am cheering my friend." I said.
"We're duelling you can't not accept a challenge," he said.
"Hey punk you better leave her alone," Tristan said.
"I'm only asking her to duel, don't worry she won't be long. It's not hard to beat a chick."
"That's it," I said furiously. "Joey I won't be long I am going to teach this kid a lesson," I said before I stormed off to the arena.
"Please you've already lost one star chip." He sneered. I grinned that gave me an idea.
It felt weird going up in those little boxes but I kept my cool. I was going to teach this kid a lesson.
"Ok then as it is so easy to beat a girl how about winner takes all." I said innocently.
"Fine," he said indifferently, I grinned internally, I'd teach him not to judge by the cover… or gender.
"Duel," we both said drawing cards. Ok I had scapegoat, dancing fairy, harpie girl, fire sorcerer and Erica water charmer, I drew Harpie lady.
"Ok I play Harpie Girl in attack mode," I called to him in a bubbly girly voice.
He smirked arrogantly.
"Figures," he said. "I play mammoth graveyard attack!"
I had 1300 life points left.
"Oh no," I cried, argh I felt like such an idiot! I drew graceful charity, this could come in useful in a while.
"Ok I play Princess of Tsurgi in attack mode end my turn."
He laughed. "That's still weaker attack mammoth,"
1000 life points, I draw again Dark Magician Girl!
"Ok I, er, I play Erica the Water Charmer in defence mode," I said putting it in attack mode.
"You've put it in attack position." He said laughing.
"What oh I mean," I went to change it.
"You can't change till next turn." He said, "Mammoth attack."
300 life points left.
"Ok this is where I begin to kick your ass," I said dropping the girly voice. Drawing my next card Fairy's Gift.
"Please," he snorted.
"I play Dancing Fairy in defence mode and place one card face down. I also activate graceful charity allowing me to draw three cards and discard two. I drew three cards Aqua Spirit, mischief of time Goddess and Malevolent Nuzzler. I discarded Aqua Spirit and Harpie Lady. "That will end my turn."
"I play Battle ox and attack your Dancing Fairy." He said.
"Not so fast I activate scapegoat!" I said flipping over the card. "Now one of my goats takes the hit rather than my dancing fairy."
"Yeah, yeah then I attack with my mammoth taking two of your goats."
"Ok so you end your turn that means I get 1000 life points thanks to dancing Fairy's special ability."
"What!"
"You heard me and now I draw," I got dust tornado, this could be useful. "I play Dark Magician Girl in attack mode and increase her power with Malevolent Nuzzler so her attack power is now 2700. Dark Magician Girl, attack his mammoth with dark magic attack!" I said. I grinned as this knocked his life points down to 500. His face was priceless.
"You're done, I play Mischief of time Goddess causing you to miss a go now attack his battle ox Dark Magician girl, destroying the rest of his life points!"
The hologram blasted his battle ox and took his life points to zero.
"Now I believe you owe me two star chips." I said holding out my hand as we were lowered down.
He grumbled but gave them to me.
"I hope you've learnt not to presume a player's strength on their gender." I said.
"You played me," he said frowning.
"No, I copied you assumption, I would have played like I did from the beginning if you hadn't made that whole girl comment."
"Thanks your right." He said, holding out his chips before walking away, I ran over to the duel taking place next to me to see there were no more holograms and both duellist were back on the ground. I ran over as fast as I could.
"I am so sorry Joey did you win?" I said looking at everyone. Joey grinned.
"You bet I did," he said.
"That's great Joey." I said smiling. "You'll have to tell me about it later tonight,"
"Yeah lets go find another duel." Tristan said.
"How did your duel go Mana?" Téa asked. I grinned holding up my glove.
"I taught that kid a lesson or two." I said grinning as we walked side by side into the forest.
"Woowee!" Joey yelled excited. "Two star chips this is awesome I can't believe it happened am I cool or what!"
"What," I said teasingly grinning at his excitement upset that I had missed it.
"Is there a time limit on how long he gets to crow," Téa said crossing her arms.
"Cut him some slack Téa," Tristan said. "Did you ever thinks that Joey would have beat Mai in a duel I mean Joey who would have thought."
"I knew he could do it," Yugi said. "I'm really proud of you Joey."
"Yeah," he said before his stomach gave a loud rumble. "All that duelling made me hungry,"
"Joey you barely move your hand that can't make you hungry." I said laughing at him.
"Did any of you remember to bring food with you?" Joey asked, ignoring me.
"Sorry Joe," Téa, Yugi and Tristan all said.
"I have some but not enough for all of us." I said gesturing to my backpack.
Joey groaned. "What were we thinking coming here with no food. How are we ever going to get through the rest of the competition without anything to eat!"
"That's a good question Joey," Yugi said. "I haven't seen any burger stands or restaurants since we got here."
"Well we better do something fast." Téa said. "I've got to have my five basic food groups or it's metabolic meltdown." She sounded panicked as she put her hands on her hips. I rolled my eyes.
"Téa you can live without a few days it won't make you fat," I said.
"Hey chill out you guys I got it covered." Tristan said.
"Yeah," all three of them said.
"Check it out the great outdoor survival guide." He said taking it out of his bag. The three groaned but I laughed.
"Can we eat it?" Joey said.
"So you didn't bring any food but you brought that." I said amused.
"We were sneaking on board what if they had dogs,"
"That is actually really good thinking." I said smiling. Tristan grinned at my complement.
"It lists all the plants, roots, berries and grasses we can eat." He said flicking through it.
"Do I look like a squirrel to you?" Joey said yelled before he sniffed the air. "I don't need your stupid book anyhow I smell something cooking thata way!" he ran towards the ocean.
"He's hallucinating," Téa said her hands on her hips again.
"Don't be so sure you know it wasn't his brain that beat Mai it was his nose." Tristan said.
"Huh?" I said confused.
"I'll explain later." Yugi said before we all began to run to try and catch up with our group moron before he did something stupid. Like steal people's food.
Hi I have a hard core feminist deck and the card I haven't got I drew so I had Mana's deck, I drew so it was like a real game, I thought it would be an interesting twist. With the odd heart of the cards thrown in if there is I will put it in this bit where I explain and thank you guys! The first duel was just a bloody good shuffle on my part :P