I hope you like this. More from littlekurioh! Lol. I love his jokes! Ok, so Joey is dueling against Mai and after that, she'll be out for a while. You can guess why lol. Here it is! Review please!
Joey and Mai made it out of the forest and into the plain areas. They walked to a Duel Box were there were mountains, plains, and valleys. This was perfect for their duel and perfect for their deck they were playing. Mai and Joey sat across from each other and shuffled their decks. Joey's friends were outside the Duel Box watching their friend prepare for their duel.
While shuffling Mai's deck, Joey eyed the woman curiously with a slight smirk. Mai noticed this, especially since Joey wasn't looking at her breasts, and cocked her eyebrows.
"What do you want?" Mai asked.
"Just curious, why are you participating in this duel?" Joey asked.
"That's easy," Mai smirked with a slight chuckle. "I came here for honor and fortune. If I win the money, I can travel the world and live in Paris. I won't have to live in poverty anymore."
"That's it?" Joey asked blinkly. "So, in other words, you're here for yourself?"
"Why else? In life, you can only depend on yourself and I don't have anyone else to depend on, so why else would I be here besides on my own needs?"
Joey stared at the woman blankly. Mai had claimed not only that she only depended on herself, but had nobody to depend on. Did that mean she had no friends? No family? No one? Even Joey and Atem had someone when they were living off the road. Atem returned back with his own family and Joey had a dad, despite him not being the greatest person to live with.
"Do you have a family to depend on?" Joey asked as Mai's face turned blank. The woman glared at the blond male with burst of anger.
"WHY DO YOU WANNA KNOW? WHY ARE YOU PARTICIPATING?" Mai asked aloud with her head boiling.
"Didn't you hear what Atem said when he gave me Weevil's glove and cards?" Joey asked as Mai's eyes blinked. "Let me rephrase it: I'm here for someone precious to me, who is in the hospital right now."
Mai's face turned blank with blinking eyes. The woman tried to remember what Atem had said that could match Joey's words. It then dawned on her that Joey was talking about a curtain Serena Atem had mentioned. Joey was fighting for Serena. Though, Mai mistook this information for the girl being Joey's girlfriend.
Mai showed a smirk, and then nodded, "I see. You're dueling for Serena."
"Serenity. Atem calls her Serena," Joey corrected.
"Right, Serenity. Well, I'd love to hear your lovely story, but it's time to duel, big boy," Mai glared with her game face on, giving Joey back his deck. Joey gave Mai her deck. "Now, let's duel already!"
"GO JOEY!" Tea cheered.
"Kick that bitch's ass!" Ryan cheered.
Mai and Joey gambled one star chip and got out five cards, but Mai placed each card on the table face-down. The blond male cocked his eyebrows while Atem narrowed his eyes suspiciously. Why was Mai putting her cards down like this? Joey was starting to get a freakazoid look.
"Wait... why aren't you looking at your cards?" Joey asked baffled.
"I know what my cards are already," Mai replied as Joey stared at the woman, even more baffled.
"This has got to be a f***ing joke! There is no way she can do that!" Ryan glared with suspicion. Atem stood there, his arms still folded.
'He's right! The question is if Joey knows what Mai is hiding under that trick she's f***ing him with,' Atem thought in his head.
Mai took one card from her face-down cards, not even looking at what she flipped up, announcing, "I summon Harpy Lady in attack mode! She also gets a power boost from the mountains" Harpy Lady appeared with her brilliant wings on the field.
"DANG! HOW IS SHE DOING THAT?" Tristan asked baffled.
"At least I know she uses a deck that makes her monsters look like whores," Atem smirked with a slight chuckle. "Than again, her monster does have the word herpe."
"IT'S HARPY NOT HERPIES!" Mai shouted at Atem as he gawked up laughing.
"Whatever!" Joey glared, wanting to get back to the duel. "I play Tigar Ax in attack mode!"
"No good! My monster has wings, so it attacks your monster and claws it to pieces!"
Harpy Lady slashed right at Tigar Ax and Joey's life points were down to 1610. His face seemed terrified, but Atem held a smirk, including Ryan who had his arms folded.
"Herpes kills the cat," Atem smirked as Mai's head boiled.
"IT'S HARPY, NOT HERPES!" Mai cried out in anger.
"I'd hate to f*** with a woman, if her pussy is that bulky red," Ryan said as Mai's head grew even hotter.
"You boys are f***ing disgusting!" Tea glared.
"Ryan, why do I get the feeling you're not a virgin?" Atem asked rhetorically as Ryan gave an evil crooked smile.
"At least I don't call them my 'sex partners,'" Ryan smirked.
"I'm summoning my Kojikocy in attack mode!" Joey declared as Kojikocy appeared with an angry look on his face. It also got a power boost from the plains field bonus.
"Than, I'll play Electro-Whip," Mai smirked as she picked up another face-down card on the table and showed it to Joey, who was looking more baffled. "With this, my Harpy Lady's attack goes up by 300 points."
"More herpes," Atem added.
"WOULD YOU SHUT THE F*** UP? IT'S HARPY, NOT HERPE!" Mai screamed as everyone, except Tea, gawked up laughing.
"Just don't give them to me," Tristan as Mai's head continually boiled.
"WHATEVER! HARPY LADY DESTROYS YOUR KOJIKOCY!" Mai cried out, trying to ignore the teasing boys.
Sweat was pouring on Joey's face as he watched his life points drop to 1120. Joey couldn't snap out of the fact that Mai knew her cards without seeing them. It was as if she was psychic. There had to be some sort of trick to this, there just had to! Atem was worried about his friend. Joey wasn't looking so good and seemed distracted by Mai's trick.
"You'll never be able to defeat my Harpy Lady with that monster! At each turn, she becomes more elegant and beautiful!" Mai smirked.
"And giving out transmitted diseases," Ryan added.
"IT'S HARPY, NOT HERPE!" Mai yelled aloud as the boys gawked up laughing.
"I play Karbonala Warrior!" Joey declared as Karbonala Warrior appeared in attack mode.
"Than I'll make Harpy Lady more elegant and beautiful with Cyber Bondage," Mai smirked as she turned over another card face-down on the table as Harpy Lady was given a suit of armor and attacked Joey's warrior, leaving Joey with 810 life points. "Face it! You're no match for the pro leagues!"
"Common Joey! Don't give up!" Mokuba cheered.
"You both!" Mai said, pointing to Tea and Mokuba. "Both of you said that your cheerleading can help your friend in a duel, if they're friends. Well, how about you prove it right now? Say something that can make this amatur turn things around!" Tea just stood there blankly, while Mokua just crossed his arms with a smudge glare. Mai laughed mockingly, thinking that she had just proven her point. She flipped her hair pridefully and said, "see? Your stupid cheering is useless! It doesn't matter if your Joey's friends or not! A true duelist only depends on himself! Today's friends are tomorrow's enemies! Even if you were to beat me and make it to the final round, you will have to duel Atem eventually and he will become your enemy! That's life!"
"That's not true!" Mokuba protested.
"And how would you know? Have you made any friends with your enemies? Face it, kid! You're twelve years old and don't have enough experience to know everything!" Mai said snobbishly.
"That's actually not true," Yugi said next to his brother. "Even Seto tried to make you his enemy, but couldn't. It's harder to make enemies out of your friends, than it is to make an enemy your friend."
'That's right!' Atem agreed, nodding at his brother. 'Seto and I became friends out of our duels. If Mai was right, Seto and I would never have been friends and I wouldn't be in this competition. It's time I showed Mai that even encouragement can help someone when they're down and I know one that will work.' "You wanna bet?"
Mai was taken aback by Atem's words. She looked at the teenager's direction and asked, "what was that?"
"You wanna bet?" Atem asked with a smirk up his lips. "I've been friends with Joey since childhood and I can bet ya that I can help Joey turn the tables by cheering him on, as you have protested doesn't help."
"Fine, but no cheating!" Mai agreed.
"Don't worry. I maybe an ass, but not that much," Atem smirked before looking at Joey's direction. "Joey, what was our riddle to our tree house when we were five?"
Joey's eyebrows popped as he replied, "what is something you can show, but not see? We used that to tick off my cousins when they tried to get inside our tree house."
"But only we knew the answer. It can be used for different answers, that's why we used it. Use that question for this duel."
"Well, that's rich!" Mai mocked in laughter. "Something you can show, but not see? Woooow."
Joey was trying to think what Atem was meaning by that. He knew that the password to the tree house with the riddle was friendship, though it could mean different things. Atem once told Joey that he thought it could mean puzzle, because you can show the pieces, but you can't see the whole picture. For Serenity, she thought it could mean blindness, because you can show that you're blind, but you cannot really see that they are, unless they had a cataract or something. Someone born with blindness had normal eyes, but were unfocused.
Joey sighed while closing his eyes, trying to figure out what Atem meant by his riddle. There was nothing that came up besides Mai's strong sent of different perfumes. WAIT! Different smells? Joey snapped his eyes open and glared at the cards Mai had on the table face-down.
"Well, are you going or not?" Mai asked bluntly. Joey scrunched his mouth and snatched Mai's Harpy Lady card that was in attack mode and sniffed it. "HEY!"
"You've been spraying all your cards with different perfumes! That's how you could tell what card you were playing face-down!" Joey glared as everyone gasped.
"That f***ing bitch!" Tristan glared, shooting daggers at Mai, who was dumbfounded at Joey's discovery.
"That's what Atem meant! You can show the perfume from a bottle, but you can't see it's fragrance!" Joey said aloud with a bright smile on his face. Mai seemed so awestruck. "Man! You had me going there! I thought it was some occult stuff or something!"
"BIG DEAL! So you thought through my aroma-tactics! You couldn't beat me in a hundred years!" Mai shouted from across the table.
"I'll take you on in a hundred years, Mai!" Joey said with confidence, which made Mai feel lower than her opponent. "Just knowing my friends are there cheering for me, makes me feel stronger. Mokuba's right! It's different when there's someone who cares about you watching and cheering for you. Even if I lost to you, I'll always get back up again."
Mai was completely baffled. She had never heard such words coming out of some amateur's mouth. She was used to beating her opponent and watching them cry like a bunch of babies. Never had Mai watched someone lose, then get themselves back up. That was just unheard of! Like a different language.
Joey showed a gaming face and smirked, "now, I summon Baby Dragon in defense mode!"
"HA! Nice choice, a baby dragon. Oh, doesn't it look so adorable?" Mai mocked before a laugh escaped her mouth. "At least you were smart in placing it in defense mode, so I wouldn't be able to deplete your life points. Instead of killing it, I'll just play this card." Mai took out her spell card and played it. "Kaleidoscope! With this, I can summon out three Harpy Ladies!"
"Great, more Herpe Ladies," Ryan smirked.
"HARPY NOT HERPE!" Mai cried out, getting annoyed at the boys making fun of her cards.
Joey was panicking with sweat droplets on his face. Now he had to face more monsters. There had to be a way to defeat the Harpy Sisters. Joey drew his next card and decided to play another monster.
"I play Garoozis in attack mode!" Joey declared as the dragon came on the field, then was attacked by the three Harpy Sisters. Joey was now left with a mere 120 life points while Mai still had her 2000.
"You're nothing against me, Joey! It's over! You might as well just give up!" Mai smirked victoriously, since she knew that her 2000 life points compared to Joey's 120 already had decided the game, or so she thought. "You're nothing more than an amateur, so just give it up already!"
Joey looked over to his friends, who were still smiling at their friend. Even Atem was still smiling and cheering him on. Joey knew that this game wasn't over, not yet! He still had a chance to turn the tables, if he drew the right card. Joey closed his eyes and drew a card from his deck. He opened them to see the card in his hand, it was Time Wizard.
"ALRIGHT!" Joey shouted excitedly before smacking the card down. "I play Time Wizard! I can use his special ability to forward time and Baby Dragon can grow up into adult hood. TIME ROULETE GO!"
Time Wizard stuck its staff up in the air and the arrow was circling around and around until it hit the white area. Then, Baby Dragon changed into adult age and became very powerful. Baby Dragon and changed into The Thousand Dragon with 2400 attack points. Mai smirked, since those attack points were nothing compared to her Harpy Ladies.
"So what? My Harpy Ladies are still..." Mai shouted before noticing her Harpy Ladies who were old and crippled from the effects of Time Wizard. "WHAT? WHAT THE HELL?"
"DAMN! They sure don't look so good!" Tristan cringed.
"That's what happens when you live your life alone," Atem said factually as Mai stared at the teenage midget. "Mai, you live your life without anyone with you. At least when I lived a whore life, I had friends with me. You've got nothing! That's why cheers mean nothing to you! Tea and Mokuba know that cheering can help someone in dueling, because they go to competitions while being cheered by loved ones! The quality of cheering is not when you win, but when you lose! What's gonna happen when you lose and nobody's there to pick you back up, except yourself?"
Mai couldn't answer that question, because nobody had ever helped her in that area. Joey smiled triumphantly and shouted, "SICK 'EM, THOUSAND DRAGON!" Thousand Dragon blew a blast of fire and whipped all the Harpy Ladies from the field and the rest of Mai's life points. Mai was awestruck about her defeat, but was left with a few words. "Even in a hundred years, there's one thing that won't change. I may get knocked down, but I can always get back up!"
With that, Joey left the Duel Box while Mai sat down at the table staring at her cards and deck. The gang headed out deeper into the island. They walked for so long that they were starving. There was nothing to eat where they were and their tummies were rumbling. As Tristan and Joey were starting to get food cravings, Atem decided to go fetch for food. Since the gang brought camping supplies, they also brought fishing supplies.
Atem and his friends were all fishing by the ocean. Although, Joey was still starving with a rumbling tummy.
"Ugh! When are we gonna get some grub around here?" Joey complained.
"Stop, you'll scare the fish," Mokuba glared as Joey dropped to his knees with a loud moan.
"Hey, you won two star chips, if you wanna entertain yourselves, than go kick some duelist's ass, so you can catch up with Atem," Ryan glared, still holding to his fishing pole.
"Hey! I think I caught one!" Mokuba grinned excitedly. He reeled in on the fishing pole and a huge fish the size of a cubit swung onto the grass.
Drool slipped out of Joey's lips before Atem grabbed it with his firm hand. He rolled his eyes with an escaping sigh before leaning the fish next to the campfire Hanaski made. Since he had camped with his father alot in America, he knew how to build campfires, let alone cook fish, hot dogs, and marshmallows.
"Aw man!" Joey complained.
"Stop your whining, we're all starving!" Tea glared, who was sitting on the plain grass since she hated fishing.
"Would you shut up, bitch!" Joey shouted in complaining mode.
"Somebody's cranky," Ryan smirked.
"He does when you don't feed him," Atem explained.
Tea narrowed her eyes, glaring at the campfire. Hanaski picked this up from his childhood friend. Tea seemed upset, very upset about something. Hanaski decided to check up on his brown-haired friend.
"Something wrong?" Hanaski asked.
"It's nothing," Tea muttered before a sigh escaped her. "It's just that I haven't seen Yugi all day since our arrival here."
Atem turned around when Yugi had heard Tea saying this. He felt guilty of not spending time with his girlfriend. Atem smirked and changed into Yugi right away. He needed to spend some time with Tea.
"Tea!" Yugi called as she looked up and saw his childish face. Tea became excited and ran by her boyfriend's side. Yugi put his arm around Tea as she leaned her head on her boyfriend's shoulder.
Atem was getting used to Yugi and Tea having their romantic time together. He no longer complained about it, but having romantic times was off limits at school. Since everyone was on an island where nobody knew anything about the group, Atem was fine with Yugi and Tea having their alone time or doing whatever. In fact, Atem didn't care if Mai just happened to come by and watching the two make-out. It was non of the slut's business anyways.
Yugi felt a tug on the fishing pole, having to remove his arm from Tea to reel in the fishing pole. Tea helped Yugi by grabbing a hold of the pole and pulling it while he was reeling in the fish. It was squirming as it splotched right onto the grassy ground. Tea was laughing the whole time she was trying to grab the slimy fish at the same time Yugi was. He let Tea carry the fish to Hanaski.
"I thought you said you hated fishing," Mokuba said cock-eyed.
"I still do, but when it's with someone you love, it doesn't matter what you do. It'll always be fun," Tea explained before turning her glowing eyes toward Yugi who held a huge grin.
Ryan smirked while noticing Ryou sitting next to his brother at the edge of the cliff where the gang was fishing at. He seemed very depressed. Ryou clutched his legs before giving off a sigh before Ryan eyed at his brother.
"What's wrong?" Ryan asked.
"Nothing. I mean, I know you can't put the ring on and you certainly can't have me living your life anymore, but... sometimes I wish I can," Ryou admitted as a sigh escaped him. "Sometimes... I wish I can hang out with our friends. It's just not fair."
"No... it isn't," Ryan agreed, feeling pity for his brother.
"Yugi gets to do that. I mean look," Ryou said, pointing at Yugi and Tea laughing together. "Yugi can play with his girlfriend and even fall in love. I can't do that, because of that evil spirit inside me."
Ryan didn't know what to do, besides embracing his brother and soothing him. He wished deep in his heart that his friends could meet and spend time with Ryou. He was the most loveable guy a person could want. Ryan knew that evil spirit, whoever it was, was a curse to his brother and could never spend any time with his friends. Ryan wished in his heart that there was some way that Ryou could hang out with his friends without that evil spirit butting in the way.
Soon later, everyone started eating the fish they caught. They all laughed, giggled, and had a ball of a time. Joey and Tristan were both eating like two lions eating their prey. Everyone was laughing over this while eating their meal. While eating, a figure happen to have climbed up the cliff on top of a rock of some sort. The gang turned their heads and noticed this figure.
"HEY! I..." The mysterious figure shouted before the wave took him in. "WHOOOOOA!"
The gang gasped before running toward the figure who climbed himself back up on his own. Yugi and Hanaski helped this mysterious guy up.
"Are you okay?" Hanaski asked.
"I'm fine!" The mysterious man replied, glaring at the ocean. "Stupid wave." This guy was tan, meaning that he had been out in the sun alot. Though, what got the gang awestruck was the fact this person had a swimming suit on and wore it like everyday clothing. His hair was also messy in a color of black, wrapped in a ponytail. He glared, "anyways, have you guys seen a harpoon?"
"A harpoon? Now what kind of a retard would carry a f***in harpoon?" Ryan asked grimly as the mysterious man glared at him deeply.
"I CARRY A HARPOON, WISE GUY!" The myserious man shouted, making Ryan wide-eyed.
"Who are you anyways?" Joey asked.
"I'm Mako Tsunami! DUELIST OF THE SEA!" Mako smirked boldly.
"Really? You look like a freaky fish guy," Mokuba mocked.
"WHO ASKED YOU, KID!" Mako shouted as Mokuba, who just glared back.
"Mokuba, that's enough!" Yugi said, trying to keep Mokuba from starting a fight. "Sorry, Mokuba's young."
"HEY! I MAYBE YOUNG, BUT I'M VICE..."
"Mokuba!" Yugi glared as Mokuba folded his arms and showed a pouty look.
"Kid's got guts, I'll give him that," Mako smirked with arms folded. He then noticed something. "Are you Atem Moto?"
"Sure am!" Yugi replied with his childish smile.
"You look different from TV. Like a child... no offense," Mako commented.
"Non taken. I get that alot," Yugi grinned as Mako chuckled.
"HEY!" Joey called with a harpoon in his hand. "Is this your harpoon?"
"Where'd you find that?" Mako asked excitedly.
"Eh?" Joey shrugged. "I found it behind that tree over there." He pointed to a huge tree.
"So that's where I left it!" Mako remember, smacking his forehead as a giggle left Yugi's mouth.
"So, why are you here? It's pretty obvious you're a duelist," Tristan asked, pointing his eyes toward the glove on Mako's right hand.
"I came here to win the money for a boat, so I can fish everyday. You see..." Mako replied before sitting by the fire, beginning his story. "Ever since the day I was born, I would always watch the sea. It's kinda like a person to me, ya know?" Everyone didn't understand what Mako meant by that, but still listened. Mokuba, on the other hand, just looked at the guy like he was high or something. "Anyways, a couple of years ago, my dad and I went fishing. The weather was fine and dandy and the ocean seemed to be in a good mood. Then... it changed. The wave swallowed our boat and crashed it beneath the sea. Luckily, we were saved by another ship passing by, but... we couldn't fish anymore. Anyways... yeah, that's my story."
"That was very interesting, Mako," Tea complimented.
"Yeah, I liked it too," Hanaski agreed.
"pff, I suppose it was okay," Mokuba replied with a grimy attitude and folded arms.
"Well, we better leave," Joey said, packing the camping supplies used to fish and cook food.
"Before you go, I was wondering if we can have a duel, Atem?" Mako asked with an optimistic attitude.
"I'D LOVE TO!" Yugi replied with his childish grin. "Is there a Duel Box anywhere?"
"There's one over there," Mako pointed toward a cliff with a Duel Box. "Half side is ocean while the other is wasteland. You okay with that?"
"Sure!"
This was the first time Yugi dueled someone. Atem had dueled Weevil and Seto Kaiba, but Yugi never dueled anyone, besides his friends. Everyone was anxious to see Yugi take a whack at dueling someone for once. Yugi ran over to where Mako said they would duel. Atem was floating behind his brother, like he was flying, while Yugi was running toward the Duel Box.
"I wish you luck, Yugi," Atem smirked.
'You know it!' Yugi replied. His eyes furrowed with excitement written on his face as he was about to face his challenger Mako Tsunami.