Yu-Gi-Oh!
Duels of the Actillian
Episode Five
New Friends, New Enemies
Previous from Last Episode
He then puts it back, and closed his tin box, and was about to close the binder. But as the front card holder page revealed, he sees his own three Egyptian God Cards, Slifer, Obelisk, and Ra. Well as three Sacred Beasts; Uria, Raviel, and Hamon. And three cards underneath them, another Five-Headed Dragon, Dragon Master Knight, and Cyber End Dragon. He closed the binder and zip it shut.
He returns his attention to his deck, and said, "Tomorrow we have our duel against Seto Kaiba, and if we win, maybe then he'll get it through his thick skull I'm not related to him. But for now, goodnight." He then put his deck into the deck box, than he got up and headed into bed.
Episode Five
New Friends, New Enemies
The day starts off like any other normal day, getting up in the morning, doing the usual morning things such as brushing teeth, getting dressed in school clothes, and then a quick breakfast, and then leaving the store.
When Joseph and Yugi left Yugi's home, they met up with Tea, and they headed to the school. Eventually they got there, met up with Joey and Tristan at the entrance, than meeting with Ryou and Marik in the school. Seto and Kyle were sitting quietly in their desks, probably something rubbed off Kaiba that now stuck on Kyle, because yesterday he was so talkative, but now he's quiet.
Eventually when all the students arrived and the bell rang, classes started
Several hours of classes later, eventually by the time of lunch. Joseph headed to use the restroom instead of going with Yugi and the others to the lunchroom.
And once they all got their lunches at the table to sit in, they started to converse.
"So is Joseph prepared to duel Kaiba?" asked Ryou, Marik was also interested to know.
"Oh he's prepared alright, turns out he had his deck with him while he didn't know it," Yugi replied. "We watched him and Joey duelled yesterday?"
"Oh? Who won?" Marik asked.
"Joseph did, Joey didn't stand a chance," Tristan said, chuckled a bit while earning a glare from Joey.
"He beat you with his ace card, Five-Headed Dragon, right?" asked Marik, still curious. "Considering that monster can only be destroyed by creatures of light." Both he and Ryou were taking a sip from their drink.
"Oh not just Five-Headed Dragon, he beat me with a Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon," Joey groaned.
Simultaneously both Ryou and Marik spit out their drinks right at Joey, considering he's the one sitting across from them. He glares at them while the gagged and cleared their throats while still shocked.
"H-He has a Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon?!" asked Ryou, he and Marik were looking at Joey with wide eyes. Joey and the others nodded.
"Whoa, he and Kaiba are alike then," Ryou said. "Kaiba uses Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, and Joseph has a Red-Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
"They may have the similar cards, but they're definitely not alike," Tea said, while her friends nodded.
"Yeah, he's actually a whole lot more fun than money bags," Joey replied, than he got up. "And now I need to go dry myself up because someone can't keep their drinks in." He gave a glare at both Ryou and Marik.
"Sorry," they each said sheepishly. Joey turns and leaves the lunchroom.
After a few minutes, "Well I guess the duel later will be great to watch. News of it has spread throughout the school," Marik said.
"Yeah, a duel between Seto and a student from Canada," Ryou nodded. "Usually when someone wants to challenge Kaiba, he either challenges them or waits for tournaments. I guess most people are intimidated to face him."
"True, the only other duellist Kaiba would face would be Yugi," Tea said.
"But now it looks like he's going to duel Joseph," said Tristan.
"But his reason for that is trying to get Joseph to remember memories he probably doesn't have," Yugi replied; he shook his head a bit. "But Joseph claims he is not Kaiba's older brother."
"Actually," a familiar voice interrupted them; they all turned and saw Kyle. Instead of him going to sit with Kaiba, he sat down beside Marik. "There may be some truth in what Kaiba says."
"What do you mean?" asked Yugi, everyone was focus on Kyle now.
"There may be some truths in his claims," Kyle said, than he started to talk quietly to them.
After Seto and Kyle got into the limo after Seto had made a challenge to Joseph. They both sat in the limo. Kyle sat across from Kaiba so they're sitting side-by-side.
Once the limo started to move, Kyle turned his gaze to Kaiba; while Seto was keeping his gaze at his nearby window.
Curious, he asks, "So Kaiba, just curious, but why do you think Joseph is your long lost brother?"
Kaiba didn't look at him, almost ignoring him till he said "Because he is."
"And yet he claim he is not," Kyle said, crossing his arms. "Heck telling him that he was adopted was more of a low blow."
Kaiba instantly turned his gaze to Kyle and gave a glare. Kyle ignored the glare by crossing his arms and closed his eyes, "He said it several times already."
"It's because he had forgotten all about me and Mokuba," Seto said, still glaring.
"And yet there is one truth in his saying," Kyle replied, looking at Kaiba. "How can he know you when he hasn't even met you? Times do change depending on how many years it's been. Heck for that matter, you probably got the wrong guy."
"It's him," Kaiba said, sounded very serious about it. He closed his eyes, "If you don't believe me, looks it up." Then he stops talking after that, remain quiet on the whole way.
"I looked it up," Kyle continued after he told him them of what he heard from Seto before. "And I must say, shockingly, it fits."
"Whoa, seriously?" asked Tristan, he and the others were still surprised.
"No joke, if you don't believe me, then just go look it up," Kyle replied, nodded to them. "Just go to Google and type in Joseph Hikari, and you'll find out."
He then got up, "Well, I best get going, best not let Kaiba catch me talking to you guys." He turns to Yugi, "I don't know why, but he seems to have a grudge against you. Probably because of the title, who knows?" He then leaves the group, and headed to where the table that occupy Kaiba.
"Well that's surprising," Marik said. "Joseph doesn't appear like it, but there's possible evidence that proves otherwise."
"This is just so confusing," Tea groans, now feeling a bit of a headache.
"Say, what is taking Joey so long?" Tristan asked, wondering about that because it's been quite a while.
"Maybe he went to see Joseph?" asked Tea. "He's probably on the roof again."
"It's amazing that those two are nearly exact to each other," Yugi said.
"Those two are nearly alike?" asked Marik, sounded surprised.
"Yeah, besides the idea of using luck cards, Joseph's deck is very similar to Kaiba's," Yugi said.
"Besides deck, it is personality wise?" asked Ryou, and Tristan nodded. "Wonder if all Josephs are like that."
Tea groans, "I think two is enough…"
A while ago, Joseph came out of the restroom after using it. But just as he came out of it, he bumps into another student.
"Oh sorry," Joseph said, about to go around him. But as he does, he recognized the student he bumped into, it was the same one he saw yesterday, the one who accidentally slammed Kyle into the wall without knowing when he opened the door.
"Don't worry about it," said the student, than when he saw Joseph, he seems to recognize. "Wait a second, you're the one who is to duel Mr. Kaiba later, right?"
"Yeah, that's me," Joseph replied.
"Good luck to you then man," said the student. Then he remembered and he holds out his right hand, "Oh and my name's Dan."
"Nice to meet you, Dan," Joseph said back, and he shook Dan's hand. "My name is Joseph Hikari."
"Cool, well see ya," Dan said, than he goes pass Joseph and into the restroom.
"Bye," Joseph said, than he walks away. He went down the hall, planning to head to the stairway so to go back to the roof.
But as he goes, he walks by a familiar brute that is with three other guys, Chad and his lackeys.
And just as Joseph walks by them, one of them spoke out, "Dead man walking." The others laughed at him, and Joseph chose to ignore them. "Hey, we're talking to you."
Joseph kept walking, ignoring them.
"Come here punk," Chad growled, and he headed towards Joseph with another punch. There are no teachers around to see what's happening, only a few other students and Chad's lackeys.
In Joseph's mind, he got a warning sentence that popped into his mind. It said: With no teachers around, Chad choose to take this opportunity to strike Joseph hard with his fist while he's not looking.
Joseph asked in thought, 'This again, this happened once before.' Having a feeling of where Chad is going to hit, Joseph immediately ducked, just as Chad's punch miss its mark and sail overhead.
With quick reflex and use of his strength, Joseph reaches and grabs Chad's arm, twist it hard and heard Chad flinching in pain. Then just as he let go and Chad taking a few steps back, Joseph swung his right foot, kicking him hard in the gut, sending him landing hard on his back and towards his lackeys.
They were shocked, and spoke in union, "Oh no, boss!"
Chad groans as he holds his gut in pain, while Joseph spoke, "Never attack your opponent when their back is turned, there is no honor in that. You bring shame upon yourself."
Chad growls and glares at Joseph with clench teeth, "You'll pay for that!"
He was getting up, and was about to charge at Joseph with his lackeys behind him, until.
"What's going on here?!" said a male voice, everyone turned to see the principal walking towards them. He's about five feet and ten inches tall, black flat hair, and wearing a suit. "There better not be any fighting."
"It's his fault principal!" Chad said loudly, pointing at Joseph.
"It's his fault! He started it!" said his lackeys in unison, all three of them pointing at Joseph as well.
The principal turns to Joseph, and he asks, "Is this true?"
Joseph lowered his head, knowing the fact no one would defend him in this. "It is my fault," Joseph said, giving a short nod. He then turns to Chad, "I am very sorry for hurting you."
"You better be," Chad said, showing a devious grin. But when the principal turned to him, he instantly change face to a kind look, "At least you apologize."
"Hold it!" yelled yet another familiar voice. The group turned, and see Ella walking over. "Sir, Chad started the fight, Joseph was only defending himself."
Chad was shocked of seeing her defending Joseph; Joseph was also surprised that she would defend him. The principal turns to Chad, he asks in a serious tone, "Is this true?"
"She's lying!" said Chad's lackeys in unison once more.
"I didn't start the fight, he did," Chad agreed with his lackeys, and glared at Joseph.
"Yeah right," said a sarcastic voice, and another join the conversation. It was Dan, after his use of the restroom; he came out and saw half of it. And considering who Chad is; the school bully. He came over, "Joseph was defending himself."
Ella nodded, "I saw the whole thing. Joseph was just walking pass them, and Chad tried to hit him in the head."
"And he defended himself by dodging and sending him back with a kick to the gut," Dan continued, nodded as well.
The principal turned to Chad and his lackeys gave a glare of his own, "Were you lying to me?"
Chad was sweating, and some of the students who didn't chose to defend, the ones who were only watching, starting speaking out, saying 'yes,' 'he sure was,' 'Chad started.'
With so many witnesses, Chad and his lackeys failed and lowered their heads in shame. The principal pointed to the four, "Detention," he said, and then he turned to Joseph. "Here's a warning Joseph, no hitting in my school, or it will be detention."
"Yes sir," Joseph said, giving a slight bow.
The principal then leave, making sure Chad and his lackeys follow him from behind. And as they go, Chad turned slightly and gave Joseph one last glare.
Once they're gone, Joseph turned to Dan and Ella. And he said, "You both didn't need to do that."
"Nonsense man, it was about time Chad got what he deserved," Dan said with a grin. "In case if you didn't notice, he's this school's bully."
'Oh I noticed alright,' Joseph thought to himself.
"And man, that was awesome, you just dodged him without seeing him coming, and you struck him in the gut," Dan said with a chuckle.
"I merely acted upon my reflexes," Joseph said.
"Good reflexes too," said Ella, giving him a nice smile. Which was odd, yesterday she had punched him in the gut, so why is she being nice to him? "You showed skills, and you did teach Chad a good lesson."
"Never attack your opponent when their back is turned and not fighting back, for there is no honor?" asked Joseph.
"Hopefully he learns it," Dan replied. He then noticed the time, "We best hurry before lunch ends, see ya later." He then leaves, leaving the two while he headed to the lunchroom.
Then Joseph focuses his attention upon Ella, and asks, "Is there a reason why you helped me out?"
"Well besides the fact that hopefully Chad will stop bugging me from now on," Ella replied. "You showed skills in protecting yourself."
"Oh," Joseph said, had the feeling about the first, but never the latter.
Ella nodded, "Also, sorry about yesterday. You see, I was angry and I was waiting for Chad to try to make the first move before I strike back, but you interfered."
"Sorry," Joseph said.
"No need to be sorry, you were only helping me out," Ella replied with a nice smile. "And besides, we didn't properly meet. I'm Ella Gwen."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Joseph Hikari," Joseph replied.
Ella looked surprised, "Oh so you're the one others been saying that been challenged by Kaiba."
"Yeah, that's me," Joseph replied, nodded a little.
"Well Kaiba is no pushover," Ella said, "so good luck in facing him in a duel."
"Thanks," Joseph said, giving a small smile.
She smiled back, "Say, maybe we can hook up sometime?"
Joseph was a bit surprised by that, didn't expect that question. "Well uh, sure," Joseph gave his answer.
"Great, how about this Friday?" asked Ella.
"Uh, sure," Joseph replied.
"Okay, bye," Ella said; she then walks away, leaving the surprised Joseph as he watches her go.
He was still surprised about that.
"Did I miss anything?" asked yet another familiar voice, and Joseph turned to see Joey Wheeler just arriving.
"Well you… why are you wet?" Joseph asked, noticing that Joey's front torso of clothing is wet.
"Ryou and Marik sprayed on him, that's why," Joey said, sounded annoyed. "So what about you?" he asked.
"Well, I think I just got a date," Joseph said, still surprised.
"Oh really, with who?" asked Joey, sounded curious.
"Ella Gwen."
Joey looked shocked, "What?! Whoa man you best be careful." He got Joseph's confused gaze, "Make a wrong move and you're going to end up in a hospital."
Joseph sweated a little, "Thanks for the warning."
"You're welcome, see ya in class later," Joey said, than he walks off, heading to the restroom.
Joseph then groans as he rubs his forehead, "Great... just great." Then as he noticed the time, there was no time for spending it on the roof, so he decides the next best thing, go wait in the classroom till classes start. So he headed off, heading to the class room.
By the end of classes, all the students were ready to head home. And once again at the entrance, Joseph stood waiting with Tea and Yugi while Joey and Tristan were getting their shoes on, and this time, Marik and Ryou was waiting with them.
As they waited, Marik turned to Joseph, "So Joseph, you excited to face Kaiba?"
He didn't turn to him, for he had his arms crossed and eyes closed. "If it's to finally prove to him that we're not related, than yes," Joseph replied.
"Man, you really want to prove that," Ryou said and Joseph nodded. "And knowing Kaiba, he's going to add a bounty of some kind. With Yugi, it's always the title of being the number one Champion. But you, I wonder what it would be."
'I already have an idea of what it is,' Joseph thought to himself.
Joey and Tristan finally got ready, "Great, let's get going!"
Joseph uncrossed his arms and opened his eyes, "Let's get out of here before Kaiba comes, maybe he'll forget about the duel."
"Hardly," Yugi said.
"Why, you nervous?" asked Tristan.
"No, I just don't like Kaiba," Joseph replied. 'It's not because of who he is, it's because of his suddenly stupidity,' he said in his mind. "If he gives up thinking about brothers and admits I'm not related to him, than there will be a possibility of us becoming friends."
"Seto hardly has any friends," Joey said, just as their group started to head out. "The only one he trusts is his little brother, Mokuba."
"Yeah, that's true, and if Mokuba was in trouble, Seto would do anything to save him," Tea nodded as she said that. "And by anything, I mean anything."
'Oh I know what you mean by that,' Joseph thought to himself once more. He recalled one episode which was at Pegasus's Castle, and Seto was losing to Atem, who back then was just known as Yami Yugi, and Seto got into a position that forces Yugi to end the match by giving up. Yugi made a good decision on that, besides who really want to do? Seto pretty much gave him a choice of either killing Seto while winning the duel, or losing Seto and lose the chance to get into the castle.
"Joseph," called a familiar and yet loathed voice, in which got the attention of both Joseph and Joey as they turned around at the same time. The others turned around and see Kaiba coming with Kyle behind him.
"What is it now money bags?" both Joseph and Joey asked in unison. This caused most of the group to be surprised by a bit. They looked at each other in surprise and spoke at the same time again, "Whoa man." They were surprised once more, "We did it again," they spoke in unison once more, in which both of them were eyes widen.
Then they squints their eyes at each other, and spoke once more in unison by accident, "Red-Eyes Black Dragon inferno fire blast!" Thus further shocking the group; who were watching them and both Joey and Joseph said, "Ooh!"
"Okay, that is enough," Tea groans, she was already getting the headache from this.
"Good timing," Kyle said, he was still surprised.
Joseph cleared his throat and turns to Kaiba, "What is it Kaiba? You still want your duel, right?" Relieved that he and Joey had stopped speaking at the same time, and by the looks of Joey, he sighed in relief of it, glad that was just a onetime thing.
Kaiba was still surprised of what Joseph and the mutt did, and decided that those two had been practicing this just to annoy him for whatever reason the mutt got his brother to do with him. So he gave Joey a slight a glare, than he kept his focus on Joseph, "Be ready in one hour, brother. One of my limos will come to the Kame Shop to pick you up. So get your deck, I'll be waiting for your arrival."
He then walk pass them, with Kyle following behind him, and the group watch them go.
"He is so darn annoying," Joseph groans, glaring at Kaiba and watches him and Kyle get into Kaiba's limo and it drove away.
"You said it," Joey agreeing with Joseph. The group are still surprised of the duo.
Then they both turned to each other and spoke at the same time, "By the way, glad that ended." Then their eyes widen as they realized they spoke in unison once more. "Oh no… Oh God no…" they continued to speak in unison, and the group are still looking surprised of this.
Then they both shouted in the air just so to let out their annoyance of this, "NOOOOOOOO!"
Eventually the speaking in unison had ended, with Tristan hitting both of them in the back of the head. Which caused both Joseph and Joey treating Tristan of what happens when you hit them in a head, thus Tristan has a very sore back from the cause of the Joes teamwork on repaying Tristan back after the punch.
The group had headed to the Kame Shop, and once there. The group were talking with each other while Joseph headed into his room and did a quick change in clothes. And he eventually came back out, wearing his black clothing underneath his lovely dragon pattern red trench coat, and his deck box now moved from jean pocket to inside coat pocket.
He joined with the group in their conversation, as well as getting the chance to buy a duelling disk from Mr. Muto, right after he had saw some duelling disks in boxes on the shelves, and those darn things cost a damn lot!
Joseph had equipped it to his arm, and was marvelling it. He already liked it and was glad to have a real one.
And as for the conversation, it was eventually moved on into the limo when it arrived. And on the way, they had talked about what Seto mostly used in his deck, which Joey complained about his Crush Card combo.
To Joseph, he already knows about what Seto uses and most of his strategies, but he did say, "Thanks for the info."
And through the window, Joseph saw the location of where the limo was heading to, the Kaiba dome. It is the place where Yami Yugi had duelled Seto Kaiba in the movie with Anubis and new special cards. And as they go, Joseph gets a much bigger feeling of what's going to happen, with one including no escape option.
'Well at least I learned teleport,' he had thought to himself.
Upon arrival in front of the Kaiba dome, it was obviously rebuilt since last time it was used. So once the limo had stopped, Joseph, Yugi and the group had gotten out, and Mokuba was waiting at the front door.
"Hey Mokuba, how you been?" Yugi asked as the group came over to Mokuba.
"Hey guys, I been fine, how about you?" he replied, and he lets the group in, and now they stood in the lobby.
"Oh we have been doing great," Joey said with a grin. Then he wraps his right arm around Joseph so Mokuba could see him, "Been hanging with our new pal here too."
Mokuba looked up at Joseph, has a look that is a mixture of surprise and confusion. "So is he the one my brother claims is my older brother?" he asked.
Joseph groaned and face-palmed, "I'm not, but we're to duel."
"Oh, okay," Mokuba said.
"Mokuba, you don't seem quite excited about this," Tea asked, feeling confused.
"About what?" asked Mokuba, he looked confused. "If it's the duel and if it was to Yugi, I won't be surprised."
Yugi nodded, and he asks, "But you don't seem surprised to see Joseph, considering how much your brother claims?"
"How can I, we haven't met before," Mokuba said.
Joseph grins, glad to know there is one Kaiba who knows the truth that he's not their brother. He said with happiness in his voice, "Thank…"
But Mokuba continued, "I was only one at the time when the accident happened." He looked up at Joseph, "And it did happen in Canada, and you're from there. And one thing I know about my brother, he is not a liar."
Joseph groaned and now looking down at his feet in annoyance, it was too good to be true. The hope of at one Kaiba that would think that there are only two members in their family was shattered.
He groans and pinches his nose in annoyance, than he looks to Mokuba, "Where is your brother so we could get this done?"
Mokuba pointed to one of the two elevators nearby, "Take one and go to the top floor." He then looks to Yugi and the others, "It is best he goes up alone, while we head up with the other."
"Thanks," Joseph said, and as he heads towards one of the elevators. He spoke to the others, "See you guys later."
"Good luck Joseph," Yugi said.
"Show him the wrath of Red-Eyes, pal," Joey cheered, gives Joseph a thumbs up.
"We'll be cheering for you," Tea said with a smile. Tristan, Marik, and Ryou said their good luck to him as well.
Once the elevator doors opened, Joseph steps in, turned around and pressed the button. And the elevator doors closes, and it started to move upwards.
As for the group, Mokuba and the others headed into the other elevator that had arrived, and each of them got in and he pressed the floor button. The elevator doors closed, their elevator started to head up.
As it goes, Ryou asks Mokuba, "So how you been with having Kyle staying at your place."
"Oh I been fine," Mokuba said, "but Kyle, he's rather strange."
"Do you know he's related to Pegasus?" asked Yugi, wondering if he knew.
"Oh I already know that," Mokuba replied. "But Kyle hardly talks like Pegasus, heck he hardly talks at all."
"Did Kaiba manage to silence him with a threat or something?" Marik asked.
"My brother didn't, all Kyle does is give short answers," Mokuba said, still confused of it. "But he does have Pegasus's artistic talent. One time, Kyle had left his door open to his room, and well, I saw his sketchbook."
"Mokuba, you do know that snooping in other people's belongs are rude, right?" asked Tea.
"I know, but I was curious," Mokuba replied, he was reaching into one of his pockets, and pulled out his cellphone. He presses a few buttons till he got to his cellphone pictures. "I took a picture of one of his drawings, here see?"
He shows them of what's on his cellphone screen, and the group crowded around it and sees the small picture. It shows a man in a black business suit screaming in agony as he was being devoured by a monstrous bug and what looks like Kyle leaping at the bug with a katanna. It is so well detailed, so artistic, like it was a portrait of an actual event.
"Whoa, that is actually pretty good," Marik said.
"It looks like he is trying to be the hero in it," Tristan said. Each of them had said what they think of the picture.
But as for Yugi, as he looks at the picture, he couldn't help but give a slight shiver. There is something wrong with the picture, something he couldn't figure out why? Just for some reason, he is getting a very bad feeling about it. And as he continues looking at the picture on Mokuba's cellphone, he sees the face on Kyle in the picture, one showing complete rage.
Joseph was thinking of the duel between him and Kaiba, he couldn't help but think of this as a very rare chance to actually duel against Seto Kaiba, the one who is Yugi's rival and is the top second best duellist.
If this was at least a tournament, Joseph would probably duel it for the fun of it. But right now, he's about to duel Seto Kaiba in one of his buildings, basically like hunting a predator in its territory, this will not be easy.
And Joseph gets the feeling that Kaiba is going to make a bet of some kind. And doing it in the one building where he had trapped Yugi in so to duel him, the same building from that event, the moment he meets with Kaiba, all exits will be closed off no doubt.
'If a duel is going to solve this problem, so be it. I will show Kaiba the full power I and my deck wield,' Joseph thought to himself, becoming determined to defeat Kaiba and get the foolish idea of being brothers from his mind. He brought out his deck box, brought out his deck and puts it into his duelling disk deck slot.
The elevator came to a stop, and the doors open to reveal a hallway that leads to the central part of the building. He walks out of it and headed down the hall till eventually he came into the huge room, with the window dome roof and the sunlight shining into it. At least Kaiba's saving money on the electric bill.
The moment he came into the room had caused another to come in a minute after. Seto Kaiba came into the room; he now wore his white sleeveless trench coat, black sweater underneath with silver armguards, two dark purple leather belts on biceps, black pants and shoes, with two dark purple leather belts on either legs. He also is wearing a pendant with the outlook of the back of a duel monster card. He is also wearing his duelling disk on his left arm.
Now he stood about twenty feet away from Joseph, and Joseph could see a grin. Seto has already annoyed him.
"Glad to see you've arrived, brother," Seto said.
"For the last damn time!" yelled Joseph, "I am not your damn brother, get it through your head!"
Seto seemed to ignore what Joseph had said and reached into his coat pocket and pulls out what looks like a small handheld booklet. He then throws it towards Joseph, and it landed at Joe's feet. He then said, "Look into it and you'll see."
Joseph was still annoyed, but has reached down and picked up the booklet. He opens it, and sees that it's a picture holder book, probably better than holding a big binder containing family photos.
And the first photo he sees is a family photo, a family of five. The parents were sitting on the bench, the mother in it holding a young baby Mokuba in her arms, and the father sitting close to her. And the boys were standing side-by-side, he could tell the resemblance of young Seto, who appears to be around six years of age. And the other boy who standing beside him, a very familiar boy...
Joseph's eyes widen in shocked surprised, the boy looks just like him when he was that age.
Kaiba who was watching, when he saw Joseph's eyes widen, he grins, he knew he could get through to him.
The second elevator came to a stop, and it had stopped at the balconies, in which the group came out upon and came over to view down at the room where Joseph and Seto now stood. Mokuba headed to what looks like the control office room that is connected to a mechanism in the wall that heads up towards the central roof.
Once he got in there, he got into position and pressed a few buttons, and the room he sat in started to move and headed to the central part of the roof.
As for Yugi and the others, they stood by and were watching.
"Hey, there's Kyle," Yugi said as he had noticed on the other side of the room and on the balcony, Kyle had appeared. He seems to have noticed him and was walking around, heading towards them.
"Looks like he wanted to see this duel as well," Marik said as the group noticed.
Kyle eventually came to them and stood several feet away, he has his smile. "Oh good, glad I'm not the only one who wanted to see this action."
Then the sound of a something fall on the floor, everyone turned and see that a booklet landed by Joe's feet and Seto told him to look into it.
"Say, what is in that?" asked Tea.
"Family photos," Kyle replied moment after, he leaned on the railing. "He showed me when I had asked about his family before."
"But why show Joseph those?" asked Joey, feeling confused.
"Probably in hope of reminding Joseph of who he is," said Ryou, each of them stood by the railing and look down at the two duellists.
Yugi couldn't help but be reminded that this had happened before, mainly towards Kaiba. He remembered Atem trying to get Kaiba to understand that he's the reincarnation of a priest in Egypt long ago. And now, he's watching Kaiba doing the same thing with Joseph.
Joseph was looking through the photos till he had enough. He closed the book and has a scowl on his face. He then hurls the booklet back to Kaiba, and as it landed at Kaiba's feet, he spoke out, "I don't know why you assume it's me to be your brother, but get your facts straight. I'm not your brother." 'And I am the unluckiest guy to ever come to this world,' he mentally said to himself.
"You are," Seto replied as he picked up his booklet and pockets it. "The evidence is right in there, as well as your name."
Joseph became more annoyed, and he tried to calm down a bit, he kindly asked, "And what if I'm not? There could very well be another Joseph Hikari out there for crying out loud. Heck do you know how many Mac Taylors I know of back home? Obviously you don't, so know there is still a possibility!"
"And I did, I looked it up," Seto replied. "I check the information, and there is only one Joseph Hikari, and he's standing right in front of me."
Joseph clenched his teeth, getting really sick of this. He took a deep breath and spoke loudly with each word, "I. Am not. Your. BROTHER!"
Kaiba sighed, "Looks like the duel will have to solve this." He then calls out, "Mokuba, seal all the exits!"
Moment later sounds of steel walls covering all the exits throughout the building. All except the roof which the sun light shines through.
Then Kaiba said, "Know this brother, if I win, you'll be coming home if you like it or not."
Joseph was glaring at him, "Fine then, if I win, you forget this brother nonsense!" He then activates his duelling disk, which came on and turned into duelling mode.
Kaiba does the same with his duelling disk, and he said, "So be it, but know this brother, I won't lose."
"We shall see," Joseph said as they had drawn out their hand of cards, getting five cards each.
"Let's DUEL!" they both yelled at each other in unison.
Once the yelling had started and the group had heard what they said, and learned of what would happen if Seto wins.
"Well Yugi, if Seto does win, looks like me and Joseph is trading places," Kyle said, showing a small smile.
"We shall see, Joseph has skills in duelling," Yugi replied, is hoping that Joseph would win.
"Oh so true, but depending on what cards he hold," Kyle said with a grin.
Joseph Hikari VS Seto Kaiba
Joseph: 4000 – Seto: 4000
"I'll start this off," Seto said, he started the first turn by drawing a card from his deck. He looks at his hand, than he takes one, and places it in the monster card slot zone. "I summon Vorse Raider, in attack mode!" he called out.
Ahead of Seto, a nine feet warrior fiend clad in fiendish armor appeared, and carries a two clawed blade. Its attack power is 1900.
And then Seto puts two cards face down in his spell/trap card slots, "And I place two face downs. I end my turn. Your turn brother, show me what you got." Two holographic projection of the face down cards appeared in between Kaiba and his Vorse Raider.
Joseph mentally liked the holograms, considering this is his first time playing this game with hologram projections like this. But on the outside, Joseph still looked annoyed.
Once Kaiba ended his turned, Joseph spoke, "With pleasure, fool. I draw!" He then draws one card, and looks into his hand. And as he does so, he looks away from his hand and at what Kaiba has on the field. In an instant, he knows what Kaiba was planning.
He then grabs two cards, and put them in his spell/trap card slot zones, and he said, "I place two cards face down." He watches as two holographic cards appeared in front of him. Then he grabs one card, and placed it in the monster card slot zone, "And I summon Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4 in attack mode!"
And bursting out of a holographic flame that had appeared; a four feet tall silver body bird-like dragon monster appeared. Its attack power is 1600.
"I end my turn," Joseph said after, and now waited for Seto to go.
Joseph: 4000 – Seto: 4000
"My turn," Seto said, he draws his card, thus starting his turn. He smirked at Joseph, "I can't allow you to keep your Horus on the field, so destroy it, Vorse Raider!"
The Vorse Raider charges at Horus with a blade drawn high.
Joseph waits for the right opportunity, and just as Vorse Raider came closer.
"As well as activating this!" yelled Seto, had pressed a button, and it revealed his quick-play spell card called Shrink. "I play Shrink, which cuts the power of my Vorse Raider by half."
His Vorse Raider shrunk to half its size, while its attack power shrunk to 950.
And Horus looks ready to unleash a powerful torrent of flames from its beak.
Till Joseph pressed a button, he grins as he said, "Thanks for the assistance, for you had activated my spell. Mystical Space Typhoon! And it'll destroy your face down card!" His quick-play spell card was revealed, and then a holographic typhoon shot out and consumed Seto's face down card. As it was destroyed, it was revealed to be the Crush Card Virus, which was destroyed.
Seto was clearly surprised to see that happened, just as his Vorse Raider was consumed in the flames of Horus, and the fiend was destroyed in the blast. This caused Seto's life points to go down by 650, making his life points to be 3350.
Seto was still surprised, he couldn't believe he made that mistake, and his combo was thwarted. And now starting the main phase two, he gave a glare as he took hold of one card in his hand, and places it onto the monster slot zone.
"I summon Cave Dragon in attack mode!" he said loudly, and a big dragon monster appeared onto the field. Its attack power is 2000. Then he took hold of another and places it beside Cave Dragon on his duelling disk, "And I special summon Clone Dragon."
A glowing yellow dragon egg appeared beside Cave Dragon, and it started to change, taking form of Cave Dragon, now has the attack power as Cave Dragon.
"And I place one card face down," Seto continued as he placed one card face down in the spell/trap slot zone. Now he only holds one card in his hand. "I end my turn."
Joseph didn't draw his card yet, instead he started to laugh. He grins at Seto and spoke loudly, "You may have two very strong dragons on the field, stronger than my Horus. But have you forgotten about Vorse Raider, the one you sacrificed and allowed my Horus to destroy?"
Kaiba's eyes widen as he just realized that he had forgotten that, "What?"
Joseph smirked, as his dragon made a sudden evolution. Horus started to grow in size, growing to ten feet tall holographic bird-like dragon form and covered in flames that burst all over its body. When the flames died down, there stood Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6, with the attack power of 2300.
Then Joseph yelled loudly, "The wrath of my dragons has just begun!"
To Be Continued…
Awesome! The duel between the two Dragon Masters has begun! Who will win this duel? Who will be the strongest? And for that matter, what is Kyle's secret? And why does Ella want to go on a date with Joseph? Well find out next time in YuGiOh! Duels of the Actillian!
Honory Cards that appeared in this Chapter
Joseph's Deck:
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4: wiki/Horus_the_Black_Flame_Dragon_LV4
Mystical Space Typhoon: wiki/Mystical_Space_Typhoon
Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6: wiki/Horus_the_Black_Flame_Dragon_LV6
Seto's Deck:
Vorse Raider: wiki/Vorse_Raider
Shrink: wiki/Shrink
Crush Card Virus: wiki/Crush_Card_Virus
Cave Dragon: wiki/Cave_Dragon
Clone Dragon: wiki/Clone_Dragon