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Chapter 3: The duel

Cherry wandered about the streets of Domino looking for something relatively exiting to do. She had already checked out the library, a few shops and even went back to the arcade for a while. She was starting to get a little hungry so decided to look for a nice little café or something to get something to eat. She tuned the corner of a launderette to see a cute little teas shop with flowers and doilies and stuff, Cherry almost threw up in disgust and decided to go the café a little further down the road.

She sat down at one of the black coffee tables outside and waited for a waitress to come and take her order. While she waited she got her sketchbook and pencil out her handbag and flipped it open to a clean page. She lifted her pink haired head and looked around the place she was sat for some inspiration for a picture. Soon the waitress came to ask for her order, she told her what she wanted and she walked off again.

Another glance was all it took for Cherry to find the perfect image. A small boy of about three or four years old, was chasing a flock of pigeons. She smiled to herself as she lowed the lead of her pencil to the paper of her book and began tracing the lines of another masterpiece.

Yugi, Joey and Tristan walked further down the cobbled road, chatting about the usual stuff that boys chat about.

"So, am I ever going to meet this Cherry, Tristan?" Asked Yugi.

"Yeah, from the way you talk about her, she sounds like a blast!" Exclaimed Joey.

"Well," Tristan answered, "I celled her earlier and she said she'll probably be out at the town for the rest of the day, so we might bump into her if we're lucky."

They walked a little longer, maybe about five minutes more before they turned the same launderette Cherry did a while ago.

"Hey, there she is! Cherry!" Shouted Tristan, the pink haired girl drew her blue eyes away from her drawing and looked around to see if she could spot whoever was calling her. She spotted a green haired guy waving at her and was about to wave back when she realized it was just some stranger spazzing out because he had just walked into a spider web.

She looked again and saw a familiar spike haired dude waving and calling her name. She waved back and watched as he and two other people ran towards her. 'Ooh! New friends!' She thought to herself.

"Hey Cherry!" Tristan greeted as she got out of her chair to give a welcoming hug. "These are my friends." He said as Joey and Yugi finally caught up. "The blonde one is Joey Wheeler and the short one is Yugi Motou."

"Joey?" Said Cherry, eyeing the back of the blonde boys head

"Cherry?" Joey said before turning around to face the blue-eyed girl.

"JOEY!" Cherry flung herself at him, knocking the two of them to the ground, still with their arms wrapped around each other.

"I.. I can't believe it's you!" Exclaimed Joey.

"I know, it's been so long! Five whole years!" Cherry said as she finally lifted herself off of Joey and helped him to his feet, and then bear hugged each other again.

Yugi and Tristan just watched the couple with faces of confusion. "Did I miss something?" Tristan asked.

"Cherry and I went to boarding school together." Joey answered.

"But I thought you said you were from Wales?"

"I did, but five years ago me and my mum came and lived here for like seven years, before we went back."

"Oh." Said Tristan, scratching his head.

Yugi quietly laughed to himself and blinked when something shined in his eye. He looked to see where it had come from. Something around Cherry's waist. Yugi's eyes jolted open in shock. No. It couldn't be. There's only seven. Cherry has a millennium item!

"Cherry, what's that around your waist?" He asked.

"Umm, just a piece of jewelry I think. I just finished it this mourning. What do you think of it?"

"I have something quite similar, see?" Said Yugi, and held his puzzle up to show her. "It's called the millennium puzzle."

"Oh, mime doesn't really have a name. Um, the millennium pyramid?" Yugi's eyes then floated to the strap around her hips, a deck!

"Cherry, do you duel?"

"Oh yeah! I love dueling?"

"Do you wanna have a duel right now?"

"Sure, Let's get it on!"

So the two duelists moved to an open area and set up their duel disks. Cherry then felt a sudden rush of pain jab at her head; music and voices flooded her mind the same as it had done back at her house. The music at first was fast and then turned to slow with the backup of the sobbing singers. Her eyes drooped as she felt herself floating into unconsciousness.

"Are you okay Cherry?" Asked Yami, after he had finished setting up his deck.

"Cherry is no longer here." Said an unfamiliar voice.

Yami immediately sensed something wrong floating in the air. "Who are you then? Tell me!"

"Why Pharaoh," The stranger laughed. "Don't you recognize your own daughter?"

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Okay, I know the thing with Joey was a bit of a disappointment, you lot was probably expecting more. But the ending for this one was pretty good right?

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