"I'll Start this duel off!" Shouted Mokuba across the dueling field.
He held in his right hand 5 cards, and on his left arm sat his duel disk. He looked at the 5 cards that he held, inspecting them for a strategy. The images of fiery beasts jumped out at him as he looked at the cards, each image triggering a new idea in his mind. He had dueled before, and won many matches, but this time he was in the big leagues, no longer was he competing against his brothers programs and other minor duelists. This was a real competitive duelist and it gave him a whole new dueling mentality. His mind quickly went back to all the potential combinations that he had studied with his deck, searching with haste for a plan of attack. He shook his head and returned to the real world. 'I should start by drawing a card and go with my guts I guess.' He thought to himself, transferring his cards to his left hand, freeing his right to draw a new card to instigate the start of his turn. He reached to the duel disk, and rested his fingers hesitantly on the top card that sat in the deck section. A shot of confidence shot down his spine and his body took total control over his mind, ripping the card out of the deck and throwing it straight into his hand. 'Awesome, this is a great starter.' He thought as he took another card from his hand and threw it into his monster zone on his duel disk, his body's instinct causing his to duel more aggressively than how he trained to play.
"Come forth Solar Flare Dragon!" He shouted, pointing to the field of play where the dragon's image began to appear. The Hologram of the dragon spread its wings wide. Fire flew out of its body and surrounded itself like a firework. The dueling field quickly changed to a glowing white color, and the dragon's fire began to warm Mokuba as a flame fell near his feet. 'So this is what Seto's new technology feels like, I guess I will just have to make sure that I don't get hit then.' The dragons attack stat appeared in a hologram in front of itself, "1500 ATK". Quickly Mokuba's mind went blank again and he grabbed another card from his hand.
"Coming up next, the Wave Motion Cannon!" He slid the card into the spell and trap slot on his duel disk. After a brief moment, the side of Mokuba's field was filled with a cannon, the image of the spell card sitting below the cannon. The field flashed white and the cannon was set into place with the new technology. Mokuba's rational thoughts finally gained control.
"With these two cards, I am set to win within a matter of turns!" Mokuba said boldly and confidently, standing with his new found dueling presence surrounding him like a power source, pumping into his body and giving him the most incredible rush he had ever felt.
"Mr. Mokuba, though your thoughts may be different, you are still a Kaiba and you still are set to duel just like your brother. Don't be downhearted when I counter your every move!" His opponent, Hikara shouted, his voice picked up by the microphone and shot straight over to Mokuba's side of the field through the speakers.
Mokuba grinned slightly, knowing that though his brother taught him, and he had grown up watching his brother, their dueling styles were completely different. "Time for one more card face down..." He said as he slid another card into his duel disk, this one producing nothing more than the image of a face down card. "And that will end my turn there!" He said as he began to think about his strategy. 'With my two face up cards, his life points will be 0 within a matter of turns, and my face down card, "Spirit Barrier" will keep my life points from any damage if he makes an attack on me. Oh yeah, now would be a good time to tell him about the effect.' Mokuba's talk in his head changed to talking aloud about what was about to happen. "Time for my Solar Flare's special effect. While he is on my side of the field at the end of my turn, He is going to dish out 500 points of damage directly to your life points. And since this is the very first turn, you can't possibly counter it!" His voice raising to a shout almost like that of Seto's as he spoke. He raised his arm out and pointed at his opponent. "Solar Explosion!" Once he had finished the attack shout, the dragon's body began to glow a bright red. It drew its wings in and gathered all its power before swiftly spreading its wings and shooting a ball of fire it had gathered together directly to his opponent. The fire hitting his opponent directly on the left shoulder, lightly singing Hikara's clothes. The old man let out a light growl as the fireball passed over his body, he body, burnt slightly from the attack, his life point counter on his duel disk falling to 3500. He looked up at Mokuba and saw the boy grinning with the same look Seto had in his duels.
"Mr. Mokuba, now it's my turn to show you a thing or two." He drew a card from his deck, took a look and put it straight into play.
"Lets start with that cannon and your hidden card. Go "Heavy Storm spell card!" The field began to show another card, this one on Hikara's side of the field, upright and facing Mokuba. From the card, a small swirl of air began to take shape. The field let off its white glow and then the card shot a torrent of air across to Mokuba's field. The winds blowing the cannon to behind Mokuba where it let off a small explosion and then faded, leaving nothing more than a black mark on the concrete where it had landed. Mokuba turned his head to see the trap he had set down being blown off its mark by the winds, which were now hitting Mokuba too. The winds intensified and Mokuba shielded himself from them, as he was slowly being blown back from where he stood. The card he had set had now been lifted from the field, the Spirit Barrier thrown into the air where it ripped until there was no trace of its existence. Finally the winds stopped and Mokuba let down the guard he had to inspect his entire defense and a major part of his offence destroyed.
"That was only the first part of my turn, now I summon my 'Giant Rat'! This is where the fun begins." He said as the large upright standing rat came to shape on the dueling field.
Mokuba's thoughts began to run over what had happened. 'He may have take out my spells, but I know Giant Rat, and I know it only has 1400 attack points. Not enough to beat my dragon.' The attack points showed up in front of the rat, and Mokuba gave another Seto-like grin. "Sorry, but your Giant Rat has nothing over my dragon!"
Hikara grinned back, his strategy working quite fine. "I only have one more card to play before I attack young sir, and here it is." He said as he played the card. "Pot Of Greed! With this card, I can now draw two more cards from my deck." He grabbed the two cards from his deck and continued his planned action. "Now Giant Rat, ATTACK!"
A look of puzzlement came over Mokuba. 'The rat isn't strong enough to win, so why attack?' He thought, still confused as he watched the rat run into the dragon before Solar Flare flew up slightly and flicked its tail at the rat, sending a ball of fire to it, shooting the blazing creature into the ground in front of Hikara. The heat made the old man feel a light pain as the Life Point counter dropped down from 4000 to 3900 on his duel disk.
Hikara quickly shook off the light damage. "Now for the reasoning behind it all. My Giant Rat's ability! When he is destroyed by battle and sent to the graveyard, I can bring out a new monster from my deck as long as it is an Earth Monster with 1500 attack or less, and I choose, Enraged Muka Muka!" He shouted and the creature erupted from the ground below the rat. The oddly shaped beast coming forth, bought to life by the field's white glow. The rat falling into the pit from where the Muka Muka had emerged, disappearing from sight as the earth closed together again. The cards attack appeared in front of the somewhat crab-like creature that stood alone on Hikara's side of the field.
Mokuba laughed as the 600 attack showed up. "So that's your plan, lose life points and bring out a weaker monster? Maybe this will be easier than I thought!" Mokuba said, starting to shift his attitude to something more and more like that of his older brothers.
"Don't under estimate my Monster Mr. Mokuba. You see, for each card in my hand, it gains 300 attack points, and since I currently have 5, that will makes my monster 2100 attack points strong."
The counter in front of the Muka Muka shot up to 2100, Mokuba's eyes opened wide, amazed that his opponent had played a monster that strong on his first turn.
"Muka Muka, attack Solar Flare Dragon, Rock Pincer Pierce!" Hikara shouted, pointing his beast in the direction of its target. The creature ran over and pierced the dragon with its spear like claw, causing the dragon to shatter, sending stray shattered flames over to Mokuba, blasting him as his life point counter dropped to 3400. "Time for one more card face down," Hikara played the card face down in his duel disk causing a card's hologram to appear on the field behind Muka Muka, "And that is the end of my turn." The attack counter in front of Muka Muka dropped down to 1800 as one card left its controllers hand.
Mokuba stood, shocked at his entire field being wiped clean before his eyes. The small pain from his dragons destruction shot through his body, it was like he had been hit with the attack too when the dragons explosion came and hit him. He quickly regained focus, set on the task at hand, just as his brother always was.
"My turn, Draw." Mokuba took another card from his deck to his hand. 'Ok, I think I can take back control here.' He said to himself, picking one card up from his hand and holding. "I summon one card in face down defense mode, and two more face down." The images of the horizontal and two vertically set cards showed up in front of Mokuba, filling his side of the field with defense once more.
"Mr. Mokuba, I see I've thrown your offense into defense already." Hikara said, his hand hovering over his duel disk, eagerly waiting for his turn to begin.
"Well, call it what you want, but now it's your turn." Mokuba said, with confidence still flowing through his veins, and projecting out through his voice.
"Very well, I draw!" Began Hikara, his voice growing more intense as he continued. "And now that drawing is out of the way, my trap cards time. Go! Reckless Greed!" The face down card lifted, revealing the trap. "With this card, I can draw two more cards from my deck, as long as I don't draw in my next two draw steps." He took two more cards from his deck, the monster on the field's attack growing to 2700. The card Hikara just activated then took place in creating a lock over his deck area on the duel disk before vanishing from the field.
"Now time for my trap!" Mokuba shouted, stopping Hikara's momentum from continuing to build up. "Secret Barrel! Now for each card on your side of the field, and each card in your hand, you take 200 points of damage! And since I see 7 cards in your hand, and 1 on the field, that's 1600 points of direct damage!" The trap card that had now lifted from the field, standing upright let out a mighty blast that hit Hikara directly, causing the man a pain that made him lose his footing and drop to a kneeling position, his life points dropping quickly to1900. Still on his knees, Hikara continued with his turn.
"Time for a refresher, Go spell card, Dian Keto the Cure Master! With this card, I now get a life point boost, by 1000" A green light shone over Hikara, and he slowly stood to his feet as his life points returned to 2900. "Much better, now I summon the Giant Soldier of Stone." Hikara put the card in the zone on his duel disk and not a moment later, the stone formed warrior formed on the field, 1300 attack points being displayed, and Muka Muka's dropping down to 2100. "Now Muka Muka, attack his defensive card, Rock Pincer Pierce attack." The beast ran over and pierce the face down card, revealing a small koala that soon shattered and disappeared.
Mokuba grinned, knowing he had the match back in his control. "Now for Des Koala's special ability, when he is flipped face up, such as when you battled it just then, you lose 400 life points for each card in your hand, so that's another 2000 points of damage." Mokuba just grinned. "Do your thing Des Koala." The koala reappeared behind Hikara, and grabbed onto his back, digging into him with its claws as it did. Once it was set into place, it glowed with an intense white light, hitting Hikara with a massive amount of damage before vanishing once more, leaving the man grabbing his chest in pain as his life points fell to 900.
"Giant Soldier, attack Mokuba directly." He weakly said before falling to the ground from the pain he had suffered. The stone warrior made haste over to Mokuba's now empty field, raising his sword and swinging it right at Mokuba. The blade looked large and powerful… and solid. Mokuba Jumped back from his spot, missing the blade by a mere inch. Still he dropped as he was sent flying to the ground form the Sword Wave the attack had generated. Mokuba's life point counter took another fall, now showing 2100. Both duelists were on the ground, hurt a lot from the attacks of one another. Hikara slowly grabbed a card from his hand, and put in face down in his spell and trap section of his duel disk, in doing so, dropping Muka Muka's attack to 1800 once more. "Your… turn… Mr. Mokuba." He slowly said, still in pain on the ground where he had once stood.
Mokuba had not moved since hitting the ground from the soldiers attack. Still conscious, but very dazed, Mokuba attempted to reach for his deck, but struggled to get the strength to move his arm.
Mokuba knew he would have to get up, or he would end up losing the duel. He closed his eyes, trying to focus back on the duel. Trying to gather together all the energy he could to draw the next card from his deck. There was nothing, the blow from the stone blade had taken so much out of him. 'Maybe this is why Seto didn't want me using the new technology' he said to himself, a small tear shed from his eye, knowing he could not move, nor see. His body was weakened and on the edge of consciousness. 'We are only a few turns into this duel, and I am already finished' He slowly dragged his arm over to his duel disk, and got his hand on the top card of his deck, pulling it out of the duel disk with what might he could. 'Why was I so stupid…' Mokuba's body finally caved in, lying on the ground as he drifted slowly out of consciousness.