Sorry for the wait. I've been busy lately with school and everything else.
Chapter 21
First Duel
Everyone waited patiently for the first round of the duel. Everyone was in the front except for the hooded figure, Odion, and the ninth finalist, who hasn't be seen by anyone . They brought a machine that contained nine balls in them.
"Welcome Duelists! We will choose who duels first by picking a number from this machine." Roland said.
Everyone turned their attention to ball machine that Roland pointed to.
"Each ball contains a number resembling to the door number everyone got. Now does everyone remember his or her number?" Roland asked.
Nearly everyone spoke of their number and then there attention went to back to Roland.
"Let the selection start." Roland said.
As soon as the words were said it seemed that the balls went higher into mixing themselves up all the more. Then one of the balls rolled down.
"The first number is number eight." Roland called.
Everyone turned to the hooded figure for an reaction to their surprise there was no reaction at all from the eighth finalist.
"Has he moved at all?" Joey whispered.
"I don't think so." Tristan whispered back.
Yugi watched the hooded figure closely and noticed that this hunter hand was exposed showing some nail polish.
The rare hunter is a girl. Yugi thought.
"And the one dueling against duelist eight will be…
As Roland spoke a ball came out.
"Number two!" Exclaimed Roland.
"Well that sounds perfect." Mai said.
"Careful Mai who knows what that duelist has in that deck of his." Yugi said.
"Yeah he looks tough." Joey said, glancing at the hooded figure.
He then felt Mai elbowed him hard in his stomach hard.
"Joey I think you and everyone else are forgetting that I'm taking home the crown." Said Mai.
Mai turned to face the hooded figure.
"Once I'm done with him. He'll regret competing against Miss Mai Valentine." Mai said.
Ishizu sat in her room and looked out the window. She looked down and did everything not to cry.
Oh Merick. Why have you gone down a darker path? Ishizu thought.
She looked down at her Millennium Necklace.
From what my necklace has shown me the pharaoh will struggle against most of these duels. He must be strong especially in one of them. It seems my brother knows of this. I hopefully his plan will fail. If not then all is lost. Ishizu thought.
Ishizu shook her head sadly.
What's worst is that Merick has caused quite a mess for everyone even Odion seems to be weakening. Thought Ishizu.
"Come on guys Mai is about to duel." Serenity said running up the stairs.
Everyone except Mai followed behind Serenity.
"Wait up sis." Joey said.
"Well she sounds excited about this duel." Said Yugi.
"Can you blame her? Mai is like an older sister to her, but let's go Mai will need our support." Said Joey.
Everyone nodded and ran up the stairs behind Serenity.
While on the elevator Mai watched the hooded figure as the figure seemed to watch Mai.
"Are you ready to go down." Mai said.
The hooded figure said nothing.
"Hello is there someone in there." Mai said, waving her hand in front of the hooded figure.
Still the hooded figure said nothing. Mai placed her hands on her hips.
Not much of a talker. Thought Mai.
All of sudden the doors opened and Mai, the hooded figure, and Roland got out of the elevator. Roland got in the middle of the dueling ring. The hooded figure walked on the other side of the ring. Mai walked up a bit. It was very windy and cold up there.
"Go Mai!" A familiar voice shouted.
Mai smiled and turned to see Serenity waving and smiling up at Mai. Mai returned the smile. She looked and noticed the others were around cheering too. The baby was asleep in Yugi's arms.
How can a baby sleep with all this noise? Mai wondered.
"Attention guests here are some words from Mr. Kaiba." Roland shouted.
Kaiba made his way into the middle of the dueling ring.
"Greetings duelists. We forty five thousand feet in the air and this will test your stamina." Said Kaiba.
"Wow Kaiba wasn't kidding about this being even more intense." Tristan said.
"So let me make this short the rules are still the same. The duelist that loses gives up their rarest card to the winner and the winner continues to the next round." Kaiba said.
Kaiba finished with a couple of more words and walked out of the ring.
"Okay duelists now shuffle your deck." Roland.
Mai and the hooded figure made their way into the middle of the ring and began to shuffle their deck and then their own. As soon as they were done they separate and went to their own place to duel.
Once I'm done with this hooded figure he'll regret coming out of the cave he crawled out of. Thought Mai.
"Okay it is time to for the first duel to begin." Roland shouted.
That's it for this chapter I'll update soon and please review.