The following takes place during Obelisk the Tormentor and Stalked by the Rare Hunters.

LP Rebecca 500

LP Luna 1450

Rebecca is still struggling to find a way to beat Luna's Lycanthrope (ATK: 2400). At the moment she's using my Deck, so I know that there is. The real question is: will she be able to find it?

"It's your turn" Luna says calmly with her trademark smirk printed on her face.

Rebecca draws silently and places the drawn card on the field. "I play this in Defense Mode!"

Luna follows her example, but the card she Summons is in Attack Mode. "Pitch-Black Warwolf!"

An armored black bipedal wolf holding a sword appears on the field growling (ATK: 1600).

"And then the Magic Card Mystical Moon!" she declares as the giant moon appears on the field "This card increases the attack points of Lycanthrope by 400 points!"

Lycanthrope howls at the sight of the moon and the latter shines a bit, sorrounding the beast with a yellow aura that makes it growl as its muscles grow wide, its attack power increasing to 2700.

"Lycanthrope, Shadow Slash!"

The now powered up werewolf obeys at its master's command, destroying Rebecca's monster, which is Hyosube (DEF: 900).

"I suppose that with that your turn's over, so it's my turn" Rebecca states drawing a card "I place a monster in Defense Mode!"

"Then Pitch-Black Warwolf will attack it!"

The face-down monster is Fairy of the Fountain (DEF: 1100). One quick slash from Warwolf's sword and it is no more.

"I'm done once again. Play another monster so that I can destroy it!"

Luna's acting very confident, but if I had a setup like that I would as well.

Rebecca silently draws her card and then selects the last two on her left. "I place one card face-down and Summon Great White in Defense Mode!"

The humanoid shark appears on the field roaring (DEF: 800).

"Is that a Trap?" Luna asks drawing her card "Then I inform you that during the Battle Phase my Pitch-Black Warwolf's special ability enables you from activating any Trap Card"

"Did you foreseen this, Rebecca?" I think.

"Lycanthrope, attack Great White with Shadow Slash!"

Great White gets quickly destroyed by Lycanthrope. Oddly, Rebecca doesn't seem to care.

"You're barely standing with 500 Life Points and your pitiful defense" Luna comments with a mocking tone.

Rebecca doesn't answer her provocation. Why? Perhaps that face-down card she placed isn't a normal Trap Card!

"All right! I place a monster in Defense Mode!" Rebecca declares.

"Are you still planning to fight?" Luna asks a little bit surprised "Very well"

She draws her card and looks at it. I don't like that smile!

"I activate Linear Accelerator Cannon" she declares smirking.

All of a sudden a giant cannon appears on the field. Pitch-Black Warwolf then turns into a yellow energy wave that enters into the cannon.

"This card allows me to Tribute my Warwolf and then deal damage to you equal to half of its attack points."

"Are you sure about that?" Rebecca asks activating her face-down card "I use Spell Shield Type-8!"

A weird looking device appears on the field.

"It allows me to negate the effect of your Magic Card and destroy it!"

"Say what?!"

The cannon blasts the hit, which gets deflected by a shield created by Spell Shield Type-8. The blast returns to the cannon itself, breaking it into pieces.

Then, all of a sudden, the power ends, making the holograms disappear.

"What's this? A power cut?" Rebecca asks.

"Everybody, look outside!" I say pointing at one direction.

We three go out and see the face of Seto Kaiba on a giant screen.

"What's the meaning of this?" Luna asks.

I see that lots of people is standing still watching Seto with attention. Did he gathered everyone here?

"Fellow Duelists, listen carefully!" he says "In one week, in this very same town KaibaCorp will host a Duel Monsters tournament!"

Everyone cheers.

"Duelists must meet two prerequisites: He must have a Deck of 40 cards, with at least one rare card; he also must have in possession this new Duel Disk"

As he says that the camera focuses on a weird looking blade-like device on Seto's left arm.

"Duels will be played by Battle City rules, plus an ante rule: the loser must give the rarest card in his Deck to the winner. In other words, the final champion will acquire the rarest cards of everyone"

Everybody cheers again. Then in front of our eyes, a KaibaCorp chopper comes from above, Seto on it.

"The stage of the battle will be all of Domino City!" he shouts pointing a finger at the sky "In one week, this town will become Battle City!"

As said that, the chopper flies away.

I look at Luna and Rebecca. "What will you do?"

"I'm so going to participate!" Luna says excitedly.

"What about you, Rebecca?"

"I don't think so" she answers "Probably I won't be sticking around during the final phases of the tournament. I need to return to America to attend college"

She goes to college?!

"What about you, Richie?" Luna asks impatiently.

"I will be participating, so I need to prepare my Deck for the new rules. Rebecca, if you please"

She hands me my Deck and I slowly start going towards home, but then Rebecca stops me. "Wait!"

I turn around and I see her a few inches from me, Luna nowhere to be seen.

"Before Luna interrupted us, you had something to tell me" she says "What is it?"

I open my mouth to start talking, but then I remember what Rebecca said to Luna before: "You're running a little bit too much. It's not like this that love goes"

I close my mouth and smile. "It was not that important. I will tell you someday, but let's just say today's not the day"

I then turn around and start walking.

It's been six days since Seto's announcement and I finally finished my Deck and I also managed to test it against Jennifer three times: won every single time. It's a good start! Today's the day I'm getting my Duel Disk!

"All right, Jennifer! Let's go!"

"Wait a minute"

I turn towards the young woman. "I have an idea" she says "How about you go with Rebecca?"

I smile. "That's a very good idea! Thank you!"

I then grab my phone and dial the number. "Hello? Rebecca? Yeah, it's me. I'm going to buy a Duel Disk for the tournament. Do you want to come with me?"

Silence from Jennifer's POV.

"Thank you!" I finally say happily "Then I'll see you where we encountered last time!"

I open the door of the shop and we both get greeted by a guy with sunglasses and an orange bandana.

"Welcome!" he says.

"Hi. Do you happen to have any Duel Disk remaining?" I ask.

"Oh, you must be one of the Duelist that will fight tomorrow in the tournament" he says "There have been lots of customers like you in the past few days. Can I please ask your name?"

"Richard Tsunami"

He quickly tapes on the keyboard of his PC while repeating my name. "Ah! You're pretty strong! KaibaCorp classifies you as a Level 7 Duelist!"

He turns the PC so that I can see. It's written everything there: my name, my rarest card (Daedalus) and my Duelist's Level.

"All Duelist above Level 5 can receive a Duel Disk for free!" he says handing me a box with the picture of a Duel Disk on it.

"Wow, thank you very much!" I say taking the box.

"So, how was your week?" Rebecca asks.

"Very busy, actually" I answer "It was very hard to make a Deck with these new rules"

"How did it go?"

"Luckily I've done it in three days, but I changed it pretty much entirely: only a few cards I used before are in this new Deck"

"I assume you'll keep Daedalus"

"Of course" I say "It's my greatest treasure"

I see Rebecca turning sad. But only for a brief second as her face then becomes a mask of fear. I turn in order to understand why and, after I look at the figures standing in front of us, I realize it.

All right, I suppose all of you need some clarification: even though I posted last chapter today I wrote it a couple of days ago and yesterday I began writing this. I said that I would have been posted this next week but, since I managed to complete this and the last chapter was a little bit shorter, I decided to give you this as well. Don't expect me to do this every time, though! Now, who can be the mysterious figures standing in our heroes' way? Probably you already figured it out, but you'll fully know only in the next chapter. Until then, hasta la vista!