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A/N Thanks you so much to Leanne you are the greatest girl ! The next chapter is about a duel which we will explain …

The Duel

The rules:

Each Player starts with 2000 life points, and a deck of 40 cards. At the beginning of a game, each player draws 5 cards from their deck.

Player take turns drawing cards from there deck and playing monster cards in either Attack or Defence mode. Players may also use various spell cards for various effects.

The first player to lose all life points is the loser.

Battle Systems:

Attack vs. Attack. The monster with the higher attack points wins, the losing card get sent to the graveyard. The difference in points is subtracted from the life points of the owner.

Attack vs. Defender. If the attackers attack points are higher than the defenders defence points then the defending card goes to the graveyard, however the owners life points are unaffected.

If the defenders defence is higher than the attacker attack points then the difference is subtracted from the attackers life points. Both cards stay put.

Some magical cards may be sacrificed cards to bring back any card from the graveyard, if there is more than one type of creature in the graveyard, they all return to the board.

STORY TIME…….

No-ones Pov:

Everyone gathered round the biggest table in the Science lab to see the duel commence. Joey and Newt each sat opposite sides of the table, with there deck of cards at the ready.

"I hope your ready to loose, Newt!"

"Oh don't be so modest, Joey. We both know who will win this little game!"

Zoë sat at the back of the room, beside Tristan and Yugi, wishing Rachel was here. Didn't she realise how much she needed her right now. Thinking this made her feel so defenceless, weak. Thanks to her this was probably how Rachel ALWAYS felt.

First Card, drawn by Newt.

""The Wicked Worm Beast, attack points 1400 and defence 700," Newt frowned. Not the best card on his deck, I know. But he knew how to make it work. If he had higher attack points than defence so he'd be safer to put it into Attack mode. Nothing to attack yet though.

"I put it into attack mode," he grinned.

Joey's first card.

"Exodia, The forbidden one! I've only got an arm. Your turn," Joey huffed, at least he didn't have anything for Newt too attack, not just yet anyway.

"ha, ha. Not doing so well, are we Joey?" Newt and his 'crew' all laughed. Although it wasn't all that funny.

Newt's card.

Newt looked at his card, the Vortex, takes half of the attack points from the opponents attacker. I will have to use this for later because Joey hasn't even got an attacker yet. It will come in handy later.

"I'm putting this face down for later," Newt laughed, grinning wickedly.

Joey's Card.

"The Pesky Pixie. Attack points are equal with your worm but it's defence points are higher. It will take half of your attackers attack points and add them to my life points. Which means I'm winning. He, he, he,"

Zoë's Pov

The game went like this for hours. Attacking and defending. Sending strange creatures to this grave yard. At times it was cool watching these 'illus ional' beasts fight and smash each over to smithereens. Quite frankly Rachel would have loved to watch this. In some ways I felt angrey with Joey, I didn't even know him, and he comes along acting all high and mighty, like he knows what he's doing. Even I could play better than him.

Rachel's pov.

Delilah was very misunderstood. At least she seemed that way. She told me she'd given up hope of finding a friend 3 weeks into the year. To my surprise Delilah was also a new student, not as new as me no, but still new. I learned her parents were divorced because her Dad was a drug addict and began attacking her and her mother. To my astonishment Delilah forgave her Dad for this, she was such a nice person, a breath of fresh air, compared to Zoe was never optimistic, everything was wrong and nothing would work out. Not like me or Delilah.

Me and Dee went for a walk around the school for a while. She warned me about the gamers and how if you even look at them the wrong way you'd find yourself being challenged to a game of monster cards: A game of cards where your judged by the number of defence and attack points your cards have. It sounded boring really, I would hate to be sat watching such a thing. "Avoid the Pressies. They'll have your head for dressing the way you do," she told me, glaring daggers at the girls with skirts so short that they only just covered them. They were chatting up all the lads that walked past. Sluts, I thought. There is no need to dress like that, people our age should respect ourselves. As me and Dee walked past them I heard sniggering and I looked at them to see some of them pointing at us and laughing. Some even looked a little scared. "Who's class you in?" Dee asked. "Mrs Reeves," I replied. "You're class is the Science lab. I feel sorry for you as half of the gamers are in that class. It's also there hang out. Besides behind the Techno-block," she told me, indicating to the huge building behind us.

Me and Dee went to my class room to meet my teacher, but instead of finding any respectable female we found a massive group of teenagers. All shouting at two boys, who were playing a game of cards. Not ordinary cards. Monster cards, I could tell because to my amazement I saw a group of monsters on either side of the table battling it out, but only ever physically touching each over when a new card was drawn. These must be the gamers. I thought, well I knew they were, they were a very large group of them and this was the science lab, just one of there hideouts. Anyhow, this didn't stop me making sure. "Are these the gamers?" I whispered to Dee. "Yes, Newt is the one with the purple moheaken. Joey whatever his name is the blonde one." Dee looked around, searching for any other ones she knew the names of. "Down at the back of the class room is Tristan and Yugi, Yugi is the best gamer in the whole of the school. The rumour is that he has another him inside of him. An Egyptian pharaoh who challenged evil gamers to shadow games, where you bet your own soul."

"How do you know all this?"

"I just do. Besides, EVERYONE knows EVERYTHING about the gamers, especially Yugi," I nodded and scanned each and every soul in the room. On one half of the room were the rockers. I'd expected to see my sister there, she wasn't. Where was she? I began to panic. What if she ran away, maybe she wasn't excepted anywhere. I looked down at the bottom of the room, hoping she might be there. She was! Why. She was stood beside Tristan and Yugi. She looked scared. Dee was turning to leave when I grabbed her arm, she looked at me with distaste, like I'd committed a crime. "My sisters here, I need to stay. She might be in trouble." Dee nodded and stood beside me once again. "Who's your sister?" she asked, I pointed down to her, "the one beside Yugi and Tristan, the one with red hair,"

"What's she doing with the gamers, I'd expect her to be on the rockers side,"

"So would I. Look!" I pointed out, "It looks as though the gamers have held her captive,"

"Yes, it does!" Dee exclaimed. We decided to wait and see how the game progressed.

Zoë's Pov.

After 10 more minutes Joey was declared winner. Newt went off in a huff and his crew followed him cursing and swearing. Joey strolled over to us, and raised his hands and received high fives of everyone there, except me of course. "What was that all about!?" I demanded. "You were in trouble, can't have your reputation ruined on your first day, now can we?"

"You've already ruined it for me! I know how to defend myself you know!"

"Not against Newt you don't!"

Yugi and Tristan came in between us, sensing another fight brewing. "It's OK, Joey. She's new," Tristan said. I knew I was new. But I'd never lost a fight in my whole life and hadn't expected to start there and then. "I'm sorry I helped you then!" Joey snapped. "You're not forgiven!" I snapped back.

Rachel's Pov.

We saw Zoë and Joey arguing and that's when we began towards them. "What's going on here?" I yelled. "Go away Rachel" Zoë told me. "Zoë, I'm your bloody sister, your twin! If I think your in trouble I have every right to make sure you're OK!"

"Well I'm fine, let's leave it at that!" With that Zoë stomped off. "What was all that about?" Yugi asked, confused. "Haven't a clue, all Joey done was defend her against that Insect creep and she throws a fit," Tristan explained. "She's never liked anyone fighting her battles for her," I warned them. "Well, that explains a whole lot" Yugi and Tristan laughed. Everyone was looking at Joey, who sat steaming, fists tight and smoke coming out of his ears.

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