Hello again. I managed to catch a break in my review for exams, so I took the opportunity to draw up (or should I say write up) the second chapter of my fanfic. Disclaimer's on the first page. Enjoy!
Another day was wrapping up at Heartland Middle School. Classes had ended, so all the students headed out to the fields to duel. While most of the students were dueling, a few were simply spectating. Three of them were Tori, Cathy and Anna who were watching Yuma duel Spencer, and Yuma clearly had the upper hand.
"Now Muzurhythm! Attack Spencer directly," Yuma declared. This brought Spencer's life points to zero and the duel to a close.
"Wow," said Spencer as Yuma helped him up, "that's the first time you've ever managed to beat me, Yuma. Since when did become a better duelist?"
"I guess I've just been practicing a lot," chuckled Yuma.
"Really? I think you were just a little bit lucky," grinned Spencer.
"Hey! Don't say that!" argued Yuma, starting to get a little annoyed. Spencer just laughed and began to walk away while Yuma followed him, "I can't help it if luck's the reason that I win!" As Spencer continued to tease Yuma and the two of them walked away, unbeknownst to them, the three spectators were admiring Yuma's dueling skills.
"Yuma may be a little goofy at some times," said Tori, "but he always keeps trying in a duel and always manages to pull off a win."
"I know," said Cathy, lost in thought, "his go-get-'em spirit just makes him irresistible."
"Yeah," said Anna with a sigh, even more lost in another reality, "that's why I admire him." Suddenly, Tori snapped back to reality after hearing Anna and turned towards her.
"Wait a minute! You have a crush on Yuma?" asked a surprised Tori. This made Anna snap back and blush a red deeper than her hair while she fidgeted with her fingers and drew a circle on the ground with her foot.
"Well…I…uh…what I mean is," said Anna, struggling a little but then finally admitted, "Yes. I do."
Upon hearing this, Cathy suddenly stopped and her cat ears twitched angrily. She couldn't believe that there was a girl besides Tori who was after Yuma. She swung her head over to Anna and screeched, "YOU! How dare you try to steal my Yuma from me!"
"What? 'Your' Yuma?" questioned Tori and Anna.
"You heard me," answered Cathy, "Yuma belongs to me, so back off!"
"That's what you think, you little stray cat!" retorted Anna.
"What did you just called me?!"
"Oh, I think you heard me pretty well!"
Then Tori intervened with the two of them, "Stop it! Both of you!" The two of them then turned to face the greenette, "What makes you think that Yuma would be interested in you two anyway?" This statement shocked Cathy and Anna completely.
"Well, why not?!" the two of them responded simultaneously.
"Well, for one," started Tori, "He's known me a whole lot longer than the two of you put together," Cathy looked prepared to tear up Tori's face to kingdom come just like she did with Flip during the WDC, "and on top of that," Tori looked towards Cathy, "at least I didn't change all the outfits in his closet," then she looked towards Anna, "or tried to shoot him with a cannon and punch his lights out!" At this point, Cathy and Anna were speechless.
"That was a long time ago!" Anna finally retorted, "and only because I got him mixed up with another boy I had a crush on named Kumo Tsuyuma."
"So how come you're not crushing on Kumo then?" asked Cathy.
"Because he crushed my heart when I asked him to meet me after of class but didn't end up doing so," answered Anna.
Meanwhile- about 50 feet away…
While the three of them carried on with their quarrel, Flip was walking by on his way home when he saw the three girls arguing. What he thought was really odd was the fact that they kept on mentioning Yuma's name.
'What are those girls in such a heated argument about, and what does it have to do with Yuma?' Flip thought to himself, 'I'll see if I can get a little closer, but how can I remain unspotted?' after a quick glance to his left and then his right, he spotted a tree just 20 feet away from Tori, Cathy and Anna, 'Hm. That's convenient,' and he ducked behind the tree to continue his eavesdropping.
Back with Tori, Cathy and Anna
"Well at least I can duel while you only did it during the Sports Duel Tournament," Cathy said to Tori, "Since Yuma loves dueling so much, chances are he'll be drawn to a girl who duels," Tori started to looked worried as Cathy's statement seemed to be spot on.
"Hey, don't forget about me," Anna barged in as she pointed to Cathy "I also duel, and I could take you down any day of the week."
Cathy shot Anna a glare, "Do I hear a challenge?" she asked.
"Oh, do I have a challenge for you," responded Anna, "If your statement is true about Yuma loving dueling and being interested in a girl who's good at it, then why don't we have a duel, and the winner gets Yuma's heart!"
Just as Cathy was about to accept the challenge, Tori cutted in, "Hold on! If you two are going to do this, then I want in!"
"Are you sure about that?" questioned Cathy, "we have quite a bit more dueling experience then you, you know."
"I know that," replied Tori with confidence, "but Yuma would never back down from a challenge, and neither will I!"
"Yeah, yeah," said Anna, "so are you up for the challenge or not?"
"Definitely!" "Shoosh, yeah!"
Focus switch to Flip
Having heard the duel being issued, Flip had a feeling things were gonna get ugly and felt as though his friends should get in on the action, so he pulled out his D-gazer and began contacting the others, "Hello, Bronk?"
"What's up, Flip?"
"Remember the aftermath of Yuma's duel yesterday when Tori, Cathy and Anna hugged Yuma?"
"Of course."
"Well, now their dueling for his heart."
"You're kidding!"
"If you don't believe me, come over to school and see for yourself."
"No need to tell me twice," and with that, Bronk hung up.
Focus Switch to Tori, Cathy and Anna
"Before we begin, let's go over the rules," began Anna, "the three of us will compete in a battle royal duel, so there's no limit of co-operation, but given what the prize is, I doubt any two of us will team up against the other. We each get 4000 life points to start and when one of us hit zero, the remaining two will continue to duke it out 1-on-1. The last one left with life points wins."
"Also," continued Tori, "None of us can attack on our first turn. We each need a turn to set up some offense or defense, whichever one we find necessary. This means that whoever goes first will get the first attack on their second turn."
"I say that we decide who gets the first turn and attack by playing rock, paper, scissors," said Cathy, getting nods from Tori and Anna.
The three of them chanted, "Rock! Paper! Scissors! Go!" and they all came up with paper, "Go!" they all chose scissors, "Go!" and they all played rock.
Focus Switch
While the three girls continued to tie multiple times, Flip contacted another friend, "Hello, Caswell?"
"Hi, Flip. How are you doing?"
"More like what am I doing. I'm about to see a duel between Tori, Cathy and Anna and the winner gets Yuma's heart."
"What?! You can't be serious!"
"I'm very serious. It's happening at school right now."
"Well I'm coming over now to see whether you're bluffing or not," and Caswell hung up.
Focus Switch
The girls were up to 30 ties in a row and were getting nowhere fast.
"Okay, stop," said Cathy, "something tells me we need another method to choose our turn order."
"Like what?" asked Anna.
"Perhaps we could roll a dice or something?" suggested Tori.
"Good idea. I've got a few dice on me right now," said Anna taking some out of her pocket, "the highest number goes first and the second highest goes second. Agreed?" Tori and Cathy nodded and they each took a dice and rolled.
Tori- 4 Cathy- 5 Anna- 1
"Meow!" exclaimed Cathy excitedly, "looks like I'm going first!"
"And you're going last, Anna. Sorry," said Tori, though a little unhappy she was going second.
"It won't matter what the order is!" retorted Anna, "I will win Yuma yet!"
Focus Switch
"Hello, Rei?"
"What's up, Flip?"
"Tori, Cathy and Anna are fighting for Yuma's heart with a duel!"
"No way!" said Rei. (hey, that rhymes)
"Yes way!"
"What's happening right now?"
"Come on down to school and see."
"But I should tell Yuma first."
"Already taken care of."
"Oh…okay," then Rei hung up.
Focus Switch
"Duel Disk, set!" the duelist readied their D-pads by tossing them the way Yuma would and they clicked onto their wrists, "D-gazer, set!" They all placed their D-gazers onto their left eye.
"Augmented Reality vision link established," said the voice from the duel system as the duelists D-gazers flashed and the area warped into an augmented reality.
"LET'S DUEL!"
Cathy- 4000 LP Hand: 5
Tori- 4000 LP Hand: 5
Anna- 4000 LP Hand: 5
Focus Switch
"Hello, Yuma?"
"Hey Flip, what's going on?"
"I just spotted a Number Holder at the school!"
"What?! I'm on my over!" and without a second to lose Yuma hung up.
Here ends chapter 2. You may have notice that I've included quite a few flashbacks in this chapter. It's because I felt as though I need them so I could keep the argument rolling. Anyway, since I'm not 100% familiar with the characters decks, the next chapter where the duel begins, might take a while for me to put together and I may have to think of a lot of made up cards since they haven't had a lot of dueling action. If you liked this chapter, leave a review for me. Adios!