A whirl of mechanical noises filled the room as Seto entered the training room, but to his disappointment he did not find himself alone. Perhaps he should have anticipated that the common training rooms would be used but Seto had thought that the rest would be dueling one another and not some computer worth no points if beaten. His harsh blue eyes scanned the room and noticed that the training duel was already over and the duelist was already coming back to the ground where Seto was able to see the duelist fully.
At first Seto was wondering if something was wrong with his eyes, it was as if they were made of fire and that unnerved him slightly. It was strange pair of eyes certainly but Seto's resolve quickly harden his face showed no indication of surprise or interest in the male duelist with flaming eyes. But a flash of recognition made Seto step forward to approach the man that he knew was Drake, the apparent self-proclaimed Dragon Lord. Seto found himself strangely disinterested and certainly hoped that this man would not noticed his presence. Who wouldn't notice Seto Kaiba's presence?
"Seto Kaiba," Drake began as he stepped closer to Kaiba, his eyes darted from his blue eyes down to his feet and once again bore deeply into Kaiba's cold blue eyes. "It seems they had forgotten to include your name on the dueling list for I haven't seen your name on it," Drake said.
"There was no mistake, I am hosting this event and that is all," Seto responded his voice stark and cold. Already Seto was inclining towards leaving the room, thus leaving this man. Something did not sit well with him and he would not have himself become annoyed or provoked by this man as he was certain this Dragon Lord wanted to get a rise out of him or something.
"How interesting, I wanted to test my skills against your Blue Eyes Mr. Kaiba, as I always dreamed as a little boy to once wield such awesome power, but alas I figured out that life can certainly bring great disappointment and being unable to have a Blue Eyes White Dragon was one," Drake said, his feet took him closer to Kaiba so both tall human beings could measure each other up properly, "Now though, I dream of now defeating those dragons and conquering them so I can truly be known as the Dragon Lord of the Duel Monsters," Drake added. His voice filled with gravel tone, his eyes burning brightly with each word. His passion was evident and Drake presented this all to Seto Kaiba, the holder of quite possibly the strongest cards of all Duel Monsters.
A cold gut wrenching laugh came from Seto, his eyes gleamed even colder as he stared at Drake, "Such nonsense, I thought I couldn't hear more stupid things since I met Yugi and his dweeb friends but you certainly said something far more moronic than any friendship jabber that Yugi Muto could spew out his mouth," Seto responded, he was certainly right about this man but at the same something else was being kept in the dark as well. But Seto could care less, he had come here to blow off steam not waste time with some silly duelist thinking that he could beat him and his Blue Eyes White Dragons. Such idiocy never ceased to amuse Seto Kaiba, rather such idiocy never ceased to annoy him either.
If surprise was not enough to show on Drake's face, anger was there as well. "You speak too high and mighty of yourself Mr. Kaiba, and like any man who's hubris has gotten the better of them, will fall and succumb to the horror of their darkness of which they had wrought for themselves," Drake responded before pushing past Seto and leaving the practice room.
Seto smirked as he walked over to the platform, he did not need to respond or even think about that man's words and his silly logic. He was Seto Kaiba, and that was more than enough to see that nothing could touch him and he was by far too smart to fall through his own means. Seto increased the difficulty setting to "YMSK", with a flash of annoyance as he read the labeled level he drew his six cards. Soon he hoped to change that label to simply "SK" without the "YM" part.
"No, you shouldn't rush to Pegasus right now," Duke told Joey as he tried to block the way to where Joey 'thought' he say that red suited freak walking. Duke sighed as he tried to keep his friend from getting crushed again by the same opponent.
"I already faced him once and that is more than enough for me to take him on again and win!" Joey explained as he tried to push past Duke.
Both were without the company of the others, as Tristian apparently needed to go find somebody that he swore he knew from the leader board while Mokuba, Yugi and Tea walked towards the exit of the blimp as they were going to land soon and allow the rest of the competitors from the European sector to join the tourney finally but not before they experience a few duels at the Kaiba Land built in Switzerland.
"Joey you have to use your brain at least once per day," Duke said with a snarky tone, "Come on Joey think for a second, we are about to land and face a whole new set of competitors that haven't yet seen you duel so take some of those guys so when you lose against Pegasus you'll still be seating in Tier One," Duke added.
"You are right! Those Euro Duelists won't even see it coming when I- hey!" Joey said, as he finally took in all that Duke said, even the small snide remark about him loosing again to Pegasus in their rematch.
"Well, well, well. Look at we have here Rex," A small voice said loudly, Duke and Joey turned to see Weevil and Rex walking side by side down the hallway. The each shared a smug expression on their faces as they reach the other two.
"Aint it really nice to see you Wheeler, been a long time coming ever since Duelist Kingdom. Your destroyed my career there when you beat me with that ridiculous luck of yours," Rex said as he stood with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Yes, you see, we want to challenge you Joey, since you beat us both, remember Battle City? You owe me for that cheap move you pulled on me," Weevil said darkly.
"Cheap! You are the cheat Weevil, putting a bug card in my deck and using a fake story to get me caught your slimy web of yours! And anyways I can beat of you with one hand tied behind my back and one eye covered too," Joey spat out at both them. Honestly he didn't mind Rex at all, he did play with respect and was just a little too much on the sore side after his loss but Weevil was another thing entirely. The moment that Weevil threw Yugi's best cards out of the boat Weevil just made Joey's number one list of most hated people in the world.
"Big talk after a big loss against Pegasus Wheeler, and besides you can't possibly take us both on at the same time, even you aren't stupid enough to do that," Weevil responded back.
"Yeah?! You think I ca-" Joey started but was cut off by a wave from Duke.
"He won't be fighting alone, he has me by his side, so Rex, Weevile. We accept your challenge," Duke said as he looked at Joey and gave him a thumb up. Joey nodded and smiled as he was certain both of them would make short work out of these two chumps.
"Alright then, let's duel, lower level then!" Rex said, as all four walked down stairs to commence their tag team duel. "Also under the new rules we all share our Life Points, so we both start off with 10,000 life points," Rex added as they continued to walk.
"Why are you so distant from the rest of us?" Cam asked as she puzzled through the list of video selections of Drake's past duels. From his time and out of the Family. Kisara simply sat on the edge of her bed awe struck that this girl would choose to visit her for advice in dueling, from the start of the mission Kisara always assumed that most members of the Family hated her.
"Because I have my reasons to, many of which pertain to the treatment I receive from the others," Kisara answered as she patiently watched another duel from Drake, of which hardly detailed any of his skill. His dueling strategies changed greatly over the years of his absence from the Family.
"Well ain't that a bummer?" Cam simply said as she sighed again at the result of the duel, another win for Drake. How surprising Cam mused as she twirled her bangs with her left fingers. "Well I mean, you did beat most of the seniors and even came close of reaching the Ace group me and Zack are in but choose not to," Cam added skeptically as she choose another duel, this time from a more recent duel Drake was in, one of his most daring duels of which he boasted to be the Lord of Dragons. How pompous Cam thought to herself.
"I simply felt the desire of join Ace as much to the degree I wanted my eyelashes plucked," Kisara said sarcastically, already her annoyance of Cam was increasing.
"You don't have to use that tone with me, I don't really care because I doubt you could beat me, but even though, you aren't a bad person as far I'm concerned and most of us aren't jerks," Cam said, she then threw her remote at the television and the sighed as she landed on the bed with her hands clutching her forehead in utter disgust.
Kisara gave the girl a wide eye stare, she wasn't exactly sure of how to respond to her but regardless she had a point of that most of the Family were indeed not jerks. Perhaps not all of them were jerks, but enough where to force Kisara to keep her general distance from all of them. "I just feel like I am looking for someone else is all," Kisara said absent-mindly as she looked at the paused video frame of Drake declaring victory yet again. Drake. . .
"You think you are looking for someone? Come on Kisara, we got a tournament to win," Cam said as she turned over to her side and clicked the next video.
Rex R. & Weevil U. Life Points: 10,000
Joey W. & Duke D. Life Points: 10,000
"Alright, let's duel!" All said in unison.
"I'll go first than Rex will," Weevil said with a snarky, "I play one card face down in defense position and another card face down, I will end my turn," Weevil finished as two card holo-projections appeared on Weevil's side of the field.
"My turn!" Rex said loudly, "And I play Kaitoptera and I then Special summon Gilasaurus in attack position and I put down three cards face down, I end my turn." Rex said as two of his monsters emerged with a might roar. Duke smirked while Joey seemed a tad freaked out by their way of play.
Rex R. & Weevil U. Life Points: 10,000
Monsters WU: One Card Face Down Defense Position
Spell/Trap Cards: One Face Down
Monsters RR: Kaitoptera Attk: 1400 Def: 1000 Gilasaurus Attk: 1400 Def: 400
Spell/Trap Cards: Three Face Down
"Our turn," Duke said, he began to put down a card but Joey quickly beat him to his turn, "Hey wha-?!" Duke began.
"I play Rocket Warrior unto the field!" Joey started, "And I put down one card face down and I attack your face down card Weevil," Joey shouted, his Rocket Man rocketed towards Weevil's face down card and sent his bug monster in the grave yard.
"I use that card's special ability, which allows me to summon any insect monster in my hand," Weevil said triumphantly, "Say hello to my Insect Queen! She gets a bonus 200 attack points for every insect on the field!" Weevil said.
Joey face palmed himself and sighed deeply, "Joey! You numbskull! It was my turn first of all and thanks to you, you just let Weevil pull out his strongest monster before his second turn! It's barely even my turn yet!" Duke yelled, his sighed and turned back to the duel, "Anyways, I place two cards face down and I end my turn," He shot a glare towards Joey in which Joey responded with a shrug.
Joey W. & Duke D. Life Points: 10,000
Monsters JW: Rocket Man Attk: 1500 Def: 1000
Spell/Trap Cards: One
Monsters DD: One Face Down
Spell/Trap Cards: One Face down
"You know what they Duke, the larger they are the harder they fall," Joey said, "And they are going to squash some bugs when they fall," Joey said with a grin.
"Ha! Looks like the only bugs that will squash today are you two losers," Weevil countered as he waited Rex's turn to end.
"My turn," Rex said, drawing back their attention.
Monsters WU: Insect Queen Attk: 2400 Def: 2400
A/N: What will happen? Will Joey recover from his bad luck or will he continue this downward spiral? Only time will tell. . .and your author's judgement call on if Joey and Duke should win this duel. . . *grins*
Well this past week could have went a way lot better (See that grammar?) But anyways I will try and maintain a weekly update :) As always, please enjoy reading and leave a comment if you truly wish so!
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