Chapter 7
Addy took her newly earned star chips as placed them next to her others in her glove. She now had five star chips. She was half way there. After they were snuggly in place, she returned her deck to its place on her belt, and began walking again. "My luck is amazing!" Addy said to herself as she walked. She thought back to her last two duels, and was still shocked. In both duels, she'd been against the ropes for a majority of the duel, and in both duels, she'd won with a single attack.
-1 Year Earlier-
"Please, Mike! Please teach me how to duel!" Addy begged, as her brother sat beside her watching television. Addy had her hands together in a praying position, and she looked up at her brother with wide eyes. "Sure I'll teach you," Mike said. "I'll make a deck for you to use against mine." He said, holding his deck where Addy could see it. Mike walked over to a box in which he kept his cards that were not in his deck, and began going through them. After shuffling the cards around and putting a deck together for what seemed like hours to Addy, he finally handed her a stack of cards. "Here you go. You'll use this deck." He said, and led Addy to a small coffee table that the two used to play countless board games and card games. "For now," he continued, "we won't count life points. Let's just get the basics down." He said, and sat on the floor at one end of the table. "Okay!" Addy said happily, and sat at the end opposite her brother. "Let's not forget our field maps." Mike said, setting one in front of him, and sliding one over to Addy for her to use for reference.
"Now," Mike instructed. "At the beginning of each turn, each player draws five cards from their decks." Mike did so, followed by Addy. "Okay, now look at the field, and tell me what you see." Addy did so. "Well, I see two rows of five card outlines." She replied. Mike continued. "Good. The top row is used like this, from left to right: Graveyard," he said, pointing to the area just above Addy's deck. "Followed by your monster card zone," he continued, pointing at the next five outlines. "And then finally the field card zone. You remember what field cards are, right?" Addy sighed. "Yes, I remember."
"Now let's cover the bottom row. Obviously, your deck comes first." Mike said, now pointing at Addy's deck. "The next five belong to magic and trap cards, and the last is where you place fusion monsters." He concluded.
"Okay…let's see…" Addy said, studying the cards she held in her hand. "I play…Sword Stalker (atk 2000, def 1600) in attack mode." She said happily, as she played her card. "Good, not bad," her brother coached. "Remember, vertical for attack mode, and horizontal for defense mode." Addy sighed again. "I know, I know. I'm not totally ignorant." She laughed, as did Mike. "And then…I play one card face down." She concluded, and placed a card in her magic and trap card zone.
"Okay, it's my turn," Mike said, drawing a card and adding it to his hand. "I play the Summoned Skull (atk 2500, def 1200) in attack mode. Now, I'll have him attack your Sword Stalker in order to show you how life points are kept track of. First, you take the attack points of the attacking monster," he said, pointing to his Summoned Skull. "And you subtract the attack points of the monster being attacked," he continued, as he pointed to Addy's Sword Stalker. "And you take that difference and subtract it from your total of 2000 life points. In this case, 2500 minus 2000 is 500, so I take 500 and subtract it from your 2000 life points and you're left with a total of 1500 life points." Addy's eyes lit up. "Oh! I see. I always wondered how that was figured."
"Hey Addy." It was Yugi again, launching Addy from her reflection on her last duel. "How are you doing?" He asked cheerfully. "I'm great," Addy said, holding up her dueling glove for Yugi and Joey to see. "Wow, Addy, you won another duel, and once again I didn't get to see it." Yugi said, sounding a bit ashamed for not being there for her. "Don't worry Yugi. I can take care of myself." She paused and laughed. "I had another lucky win today. I won the duel with one attack." Yugi smiled. "That's awesome Addy! Keep that up and you'll be a champion in no time." Yugi now looked at her with a concerned look. "Addy, I have to keep working on getting my star chips. But I'll see you later, okay?" Addy looked at Yugi with a comforting look. "Don't worry about it Yugi. I'll see you later." As she walked away, she heard Joey yell his good bye to her, and she was once again on her way to find another duel.