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Yuki's POV
"You're probably not ready for a tournament like this." I told Yuma "But it's our best chance to track down Kite and the numbers."
"And we'll be competing too so we'll totally win." Luna laughed.
"Don't you think it's strange though, the rewards?" I said "A free lifetime pass to an amusement park and one "wish" granted by the owner."
"It's obviously a set up." Cleo warned.
"Yeah but…Kite's gonna be there so it's our chance to get his numbers, and probably more too." Yuma said "I gotta get home and see if my invite came in the mail!"
"Okay, good luck." I said sliding Luna an envelope "ours showed up this afternoon while you were at school."
"Okay." She took it "I'm heading up to work on my deck."
"Have fun." I told her.
I meandered around the shop for a while till I heard the door open and someone walk in.
"Welcome." I smiled at the customer "Looking for something specific?"
There were two kids, one with short rust red hair and one with long white hair.
"Do you have an Chronomaly cards?" the younger looking one asked.
"That's a rare archetype." I hummed walking over "I have a copy of Chronomaly Maya Machine."
"I already have that one." He frowned.
"Sorry kid." I shrugged.
"I will take this." The other boy pointed down.
"Blasting the Ruins." I unlocked the case "A questionable card, planning a mill deck?"
"Something like that." He told me.
I rang the two up and sent them on their way.
"You felt that right?" Cleo asked.
"Yep…they had Numbers."
Later
We had been given these heart shaped pendants for the competition, they were making quite a show of this start, a big parade and stuff.
"Jeez this is bigger than Battle City." I laughed a bit.
"Now that takes me back." Cleo smirked.
I looked at the kids they all seemed pretty excited.
"Make sure to listen up for the rules." I said.
"The arena covers all of Heartland City, and the preliminaries will last three days." The announcement said "You must accept challenges no matter what and put a Heart piece on the line."
Must be that Gem Stone thing.
"If you lose all your pieces you're eliminated immediately." They continued "You must collect six pieces to advance, now go, use your burning heart as a duelist to make this city shine."
"Your best bet is to split up." I told the kids "You won't get in each others way then."
Later
"You've got two pieces I've got three." I looked across at the taller woman "You're hunting numbers, I know you are."
She stopped walking.
"Let's duel shall we, I just want a piece but I'll wager Number 91 as well." I flashed my card.
"Yes…let's." she turned and engaged her disk, her eye gaining a mark.
It's just like when Luna talked about Kite.
"So you're name's Dextra." I looked at the profile that popped up "Shall I go first."
"Fine by me." She said flatly.
It's like she barely want's to waste her time here.
"Let's begin." I drew "I start with a simple Madolche Ticket and then I'll summon Madolche Chickolates!"
A strange chicken cookie creature appeared.
Madolche Chickolates- LVL 3 ATK 800 DEF 1500
"I play Madolche Chateau and two face downs and end my turn." I told her.
Madolche Chickolates- 800 to 1300
"HMM." She drew "Butterfly Ballet to play it I need to lose 1000 life points I can reveal any number of Butterfly monsters in my hand and you take 300 for each. So…"
She flipped three cards around, Blue Mountain Butterspy, Moonlit Papillion and Swallowtail Butterspy.
"GAH!" I coughed when dust stung my skin.
Dextra- 4000 to 3000 LP
Yuki 4000 to 3100 LP.
"Next I summon Swallowtail Butterspy and since a monster was summoned in Face up Attack position I can special summon Blue Mountain Butterspy." She played two monsters.
Swallowtail Butterspy- LVL 4 ATK 1800 DEF 1200
Blue Mountain Butterspy- LVL 4 ATK 0 DEF 1700
"Since there's a field spell on the field, thanks for that by the way, I can play the spell Dance of the Butterspy to special summon up to two level four or lower Butterspy monsters, so I summon Moonlit Papillion."
Moonlit Papillion- LVL 4 ATK 1200 DEF 1600
"Now with these three monsters I construct an overlay network and XYZ summon Night Papilloperative!"
Night Papilloperative- RANK 4 ATK 2600 DEF 2000
"Now attack Madolche Chickolates!" she commanded.
I flipped a trap "Mirror Force!"
I reversed the attack and blasted her monster away.
"Sorry, maybe next time." I smirked as she ended her turn and I started mine "I play Double Summon! First I tribute Chickolates to summon Madolche Puddingcess!"
Madolche Puddingcess- LVL 5 ATK 1000 DEF 1000
"Then I use my face down trap Madolche Lesson this allows me to shuffle a Madolche monsters in my graveyard to the deck, but thanks to Madolche ticket it comes back to me hand." I told her "And any Madolche monsters face up on my field gain 800 attack and defense points."
Madolche Puddingcess- 1000 to 1800 ATK and DEF
"Also since I no longer have any monsters in my graveyard Madolche Puddingcess gains an additional 800 Attack and Defense points!"
Puddingcess- 1800 to 2600 ATK and DEF
"she also gains an additional 500 Attack and Defense from my Field Spell!" I smiled.
Puddingcess- 2600 to 3100 ATK and DEF
"Now, close this out my Puddingcess!" I attacked her directly.
Dextra- 3000 to 0
"Hmm…I lost." She hummed "Here."
She tossed me a heart piece bringing me up to four total.
"I'll see you in the finals." I said walking away "And if we clash again…don't hold back."
I wonder how Luna's making out…
AN
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