A/N: Story idea, concept and story credit go to JohnnyD2. All characters Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and any other company licensed and owned characters and concepts are property of their respective owners and we do not own them!
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Duel Dimensions
Chapter 7
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"Pikachu! There you are!" Misty chirped the moment her eyes fell on her animal companion bounding towards her. Her beryl eyes glimmered with surprise and merit and she outstretched her arms to greet the electric mouse. "Pika pi!" the yellow creature cried as it dashed towards its friend. With a vibrant giggle, Misty lowered herself to one knee and welcomed Pikachu into a warm embrace. Eagerly she hugged the animal to her chest as if she had just been reunited with a forgotten fragment of her distant past, "I'm so glad to see you! I thought you got left behind! Did you get here all by yourself?" she asked in soothing motherly tones. "Pi! Chu!" it replied, snuggling against Misty's chest before flashing its tongue out to tickle against her cheek. Misty couldn't help but laugh from the creature's behavior. She missed Pikachu just as much. "Haha, yeah I'm really glad to see you too, hahaha!"
"Chu!"
"Umm... Uh..." Mokuba trailed off. Bearing witnessing to their... "reunion", he felt rather ignored and out of place—among other things. All throughout his life, he had seen holograms of monsters, bewitching women and cute fluffy creatures. He'd seen many an encounter with all of them with varying results and interactions but never in his life had he ever seen such a tethered bond between a young female and her beastly companion such as this. If he hadn't overheard Misty's words, he would have thought she and that Pokemon had quite a few encounters to- okay that was enough off those thoughts!
Roughly, the younger Kaiba shook his head to clear it from such creeping musings, as well to minimize the blooming blush he started to gain about his cheeks. Not only was this visage...interesting, to say the least, it also gave way to the rare sighting of a Pokemon. An actual Pokemon, and not a speculated hologram that his brother may have come up with. That was when the reasonings for Mokuba to find Ash or Misty returned to him. He was on a mission here and he would not fail!They needed to get to his brother quickly.
"Uh... " the boy hesitated. Nervously, he slipped his hands behind the back of his head and crossed one leg over the other. To an ignorant person uneducated with his way of portraying certain emotions, he seemed rather casual. But in actuality, he was quite reluctant to have to be the one to break up their pleasant meeting. But, his big brother put him in charge and counted on him to be able to carry this out, so Mokuba had little choice but to make his brother proud. Taking in a deep breath, he finally found his voice, "Hey, Misty!"
"Hahaa oh! Mm yes?" she questioned. Her large jewel-toned eyes peered up at him expectantly; searching for the reason of his urgency in his own. And almost instantly, Mokuba's boyish blush returned. He couldn't keep looking at this girl like this. He would quickly forget his own name from the way he easily became spirited away within her invigorating eyes. Annoyed with himself, he turned his back to her and crossed his arms, "Look, not to sound mean or anything, but we really ought to keep going. In a few hours, it'll be sunset and I don't like to keep my big brother waiting."
Silently, Misty paused while the meaning of his words sunk in. Immediately, she then stood to her feet with Pikachu gingerly held to her chest like some sort of dear treasure, "Mokuba..." she began in an even tone.
"What is it?" he replied, glancing over his shoulder.
Misty knew the reason for his behavior. Someone had a crush on her. It was a nice ego boost, but she paused the thought from her mind and approached him, " How far away is your big brother? And what's his name?"
"Seto Kaiba," Mokuba responded stoically, turning on his heels to face her. His lengthy messy locks fanned about the outline of his frame as he moved and he rested his arms at his sides. His cool eyes brimmed with an intensity that only the respect for his brother could bring out. All of his childishness and schoolyard crushes towards Misty became instantly nonexistent in the presence of how highly he always spoke of his brother, "He's the greatest duelist ever in Domino City! No one can beat him. Well...except for one guy, but it doesn't matter compared to everyone else that challenges my brother and fails! He's one of the strongest and the best duelist I've ever seen and he's MY brother."
"I see. You really admire him, don't you?"
"Yep," he nodded.
The young girl smiled, and stemming from that was a veil of understanding and acceptance from the shorter teen. Faintly, he returned the expression and slowly, the two of them began to fall into step with the other. Mokuba led the way to Kaiba Corp and the two of them shared strings of conversations. They spoke of their families, their likes, and an assortment of other things that fell under the category of everything and nothing all at once.
Once the topics between them subdued, Misty adverted her conversations to the appeased Pikachu resting in her arms. Its ears flickered lightly and it gave bright peppy responses, despite how relaxed it was. Then she shifted her attention to Blizzed, who appeared to be staring strangely at the sky the entire trip thus far. Discreetly they swapped words and concerns. After Blizzed had said all that it was going to for the moment, Misty returned her attention to a rather puzzled Mokuba who looked at her as if she had just lost her mind.
"What...who are you talking to, Misty?"
"I...I was...talking to myself! Thinking out-loud!"
"Huh... You were answering yourself too... Are you sure you're not crazy...?"
A flicker of rage brewed over her features from this comment; a nerve obviously being plucked. But since she had just met this boy, she didn't want to bite his head off so soon. After all, it was no good trying to be friends with someone you beat to a pulp, "Of course! Why wouldn't I be sure?"
"I've seen some crazy people...and you don't look it, but you certainly do stand out around here..."
Misty cringed as she felt another pang of anger. Curious, Pikachu drifted its eyes upto her just in time to see her grind her teeth together. Luckily, Mokuba's back was turned to her so he saw none of this. Doubly luckily for him, they finally reached Kaiba Corp.
"We're here," he stated, turning his head to look at her. Happily, she tossed him her best winning smile and walked ahead of him through the front doors, "Thank you for leading us here, Mokuba!"
"Um... yeah... sure thing..." he trailed off as his eyes studied her form while she passed him. As she did, his body suddenly felt cold and he shivered. Now inside of the building, Misty grit her teeth some more; her eyes blazing with flecks of fury, "Calling me crazy... of all the- can you believe that guy?" she murmured under her breath.
"Pika?" Pikachu questioned, peering up at the girl with one ear tilting towards the sound of her voice while the other lay dormant. "It's nothing... Now all we have to do I guess, is meet with this Seto person and then be on our way. Maybe we'll have enough time to meet up with Ash before the day is over, Pikachu! Would you like that?"
"PiiiiiKA chu!" it tilled in reply, twitching its ears. It missed its trainer tremendously. Misty allowed a giggle to pass from the creature's cuteness, then gave all her focus to Mokuba as he walked ahead of her towards the elevators.
"These elevators only go but so far," he informed in a professional tone, "They all only go upto a certain floor unless you key in the proper code. Once you do that, you'll have access to different floors depending on which code you used. For Seto's office, I always put in this one," he continued. Next to the up and down buttons was a small keypad that shared a jumble of partial letters, short words, numbers, directions and even shapes. With honest curiosity, Misty leaned in close to watch what input Mokuba was about to key in, so that she could remember it. Softly, she gave Pikachu a light squeeze to gain its attention, and whispered to it, "You make sure you remember too, okay?"
"Chu!"
Mokuba chortled faintly at how cute they were together, then punched in the appropriate code: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
A telltale "jingle!" confirmed the entry was correct and authorized and the doors opened almost instantaneously. "Heh heh" Mokuba grinned while rubbing his nose, "Every time I hear that sound, I'm reminded of Contra. I love getting the weapon power ups but Seto prefers using Simon Belmont..."
"Um what?" Misty inquired, nearly gawking at the boy from the cryptic message he just spoke. "Huh?" Mokuba blinked, "You don't pl-" he stopped himself before he embarrassed himself even more and simply stepped into the elevator. Dumbfounded, Misty and Pikachu exchanged looks, shrugs, then followed suit after Mokuba.
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The moment Misty stepped foot into the office, her vivid eyes flickered about every wall, decoration and corner of the room before settling on the older male on the phone before her. Fair skin enhanced by dark mahogany tresses was the first attribute to catch her attention. He appeared rather poised in his white business attire. It wasn't until he lifted his attention from the neatly stacked papers and pieces of machinery atop his desk that she got a good look at his glacial blue eyes.
Those frigid degrees were laced with a faraway look while his mouth almost mechanically moved in response to the telephone conversation he was having. Although his eyes seemed to be in her particular direction, they weren't focused on her in the slightest. An odd air settled between them until Mokuba spoke up from behind Misty, "This is the girl from earlier," he introduced, gesturing towards her. His tone suggested he had seen her somewhere before today in some way, but Misty did not pick up on it. Instead, she took a step forward and waved cutely at Seto. Although he hadn't shown her much respect, that didn't mean that she wasn't going to offer some, "Hi there! My name is Misty!" she smiled.
The stoic CEO barely spared her a second glance; his focus veering downwards to the electric mouse in her arms. And to further the disrespect, his eyes trailed over to the left of her, lingered there momentarily, then returned his eyes to his work. A jolt of anger sparked throughout Misty and she visibly bristled. That man did not just look straight through her did he? What was with these two brothers anyway? They were both starting to irritate her to no end!
Noticing her attempt to suppress wanting to jump over that desk and axe kick that man in the head, Mokuba snickered a bit and whispered, "It's ok. Big brother is usually like this, especially towards people he doesn't know that well."
"And that's the problem!" Misty whispered back out the corner of her mouth, "If he treats people like they're nothing, how can he hope to get to know anyone well?"
"That's just the way he is. Besides he's got me! He's fine!"
"While I can appreciate the honesty, the two of you may as well speak to the other normally instead of making spectacles of yourselves," Seto spoke calmly. Both Misty and Mokuba exchanged looks before leading their eyes over to Seto. "Aaaand on that note, I'm gonna leave. I'll be in the next room if you need anything, Seto, " Mokuba offered. With that, he about faced and began to head out the door, "See ya, Misty."
"Bye."
As soon as he left, Seto hung up the phone and propped his elbows up on the desk. He steepled his long fingers together and glared at the girl; boreal eyes burrowing into her soul, " That is a Pokemon, correct?"
"Yeah. How'd you know?"
"Research," he replied simply, "I'm pretty sure that 'Pocket Monsters' is not their scientific title. But for understanding purposes, I will refer to them as you do as 'Pokemon'."
To this, Misty's eyes widened and she hugged Pikachu closer in a protective manner,"What kind of research? You aren't someone who tries to hurt them by experimenting on them, are you?"
Seto was silent as the response to her childish question circled in his head. A frown took form on his lips and he narrowed his eyes at her. Misty flinched slightly. She didn't know who this guy thought he was, but he was beginning to act like a real jerk. But still, she let the words she wanted to say to him wilt on her tongue, "How do you know about Pokemon anyway? I haven't seen any in this world since we arrived here."
"Because there are none," he countered flatly in monotone, "The one you're holding is the only one that I've seen with my own eyes."
"And just what do you need Pikachu for?"
"Relax. I'm not going to harm it."
"How can I relax? I don't know anything about this place and I know even less about you! You had your little brother seek me out and drop me off on your doorstep so you could glare at me and lie to me about knowing about races of creatures that don't even exist in this town? That's really low!"
"Look. Misty. I didn't have you brought here to hear your complaining. And for your information, I've already known about Pokemon. I've even begun creating a machine that will be able to record their data and replicate it onto a playing card."
"Are you going to steal their souls? Their spirits? That's murder!"
"Calm down, and listen to me! You're jumping to conclusions! I said I wouldn't harm them!"
"And you expect me to just believe you? Not only are you a complete and rude jerk, but you're a sadist too!"
Kaiba was offended by this remark, but he masked the emotion well, "If I'm such a sadist, then shouldn't you be screaming in pain from the horrible things that I'm inflicting on you right now?"
"Don't act cute with me! You called me here for a reason and that means you need me for something. So far, I'm not liking you very much!"
"Misty..." Blizzed's frosty voice spoke. Angry, Misty darted her eyes to the spirit at the left of her. She didn't give a verbal reply. She knew if she had, Kaiba probably would have thought she was talking to herself. Instead, no matter how difficult it was for her to do right now, Misty kept her mouth shut and listened to what her companion had to say. Keen to this, Blizzed nodded and continued its words, "I believe it best to hear the young lad out. There is honest to his words and, while he may seem cold, he would not be one to cause the type of atrocities you are accusing him of."
Misty lowered her eye-lids halfway in a dubious fashion. She didn't want to believe Blizzed, even if a lot of the things she said were just off the top of her head. She really did know nothing about him and it frustrated her because she didn't know how to cover any ground with him when there was a gaping void where the ground should be. Pouting, she glanced to Seto. Sourly, she admitted an apology.
Seto shrugged it off with a "Whatever"
"I'm trying to be nice to you..." she forced out. Seto smirked faintly at this, and rose from his chair, "Better. I'll show you what I've accumulated so far with the machinery. And don't you dare tell anyone else about what you saw here today. This discussion, this meeting, never happened. Understand?"
"...Fine" Misty stated a little too wistfully. Although his words carried the lining of a threat, she was rather glad to have a reason to forget all about him and get on with her life.
"Oh, and one more thing," Seto added over his shoulder. A daring gleam wavered in his frigid orbs as a challenging smirk touched his lips, "It might be a good idea to pay attention to your duel spirit. He knows what he's talking about."
Misty nearly blanched from this revelation and stole a quick look to Blizzed. The noble-looking fowl glanced to her before uncomfortably clearing his throat, "No, I didn't share this information with you because you never asked me."
About half an hour later, Misty finally took her leave from Seto's office. Silently, he watched her leave. His mind teemed with thoughts and possibilities he could gain and put towards his company with the knowledge she had about Pokemon. The concept was fascinating—probably because it the concept of such battling animals was very similar to Duel Monsters itself. But all of that, along with his plan, could fall into place at a later date. Due to her visit, he had the information he needed.
"Thank you for believing my words, Seto," an airy and soothing voice drifted from beside him. Seconds later, the wispy image of a woman long immersed within his past, who now bore the wings of the glorious dragon inside of her soul, unraveled into view. Her skin was pale as a sheet. Her composed face was elegantly decorated with her exotic features; her ethereal icy eyes drizzled in remorse. Thin tresses of ivory caressed her bare shoulders and tapered down her back, over her dragon tail, and framed at tops of her calves.
If it were odd to believe that Seto Kaiba of all individuals would be so open to beings such as duel spirits without denying their realism, the presence of the Blue Eyes, Kisara's herself, would contribute to the reason why. Seto could see duel spirits. Finding that out lead to nothing but absurdity. But ironically enough, while he could see them, Mokuba could not. Upon a firsthand experience, he could see that Yūgi, as well as Yami, the ancient phantasm of a pharaoh that shared his body, could see and speak with them as well. Seto had made no public knowledge of this when he first realized it. He thought he was going insane and contacted the one person he thought could help him in this delusional dilemma.
While Ishizu could sense the presence of duel spirits, she could not see, nor interact with them. The best advice she could give him was to speak to the Pharaoh and enlist his help. Needless to say, Seto was not too crazy about that idea. Going to one's rival for help that he could obtain in some way himself seemed redundant. But he knew that if he were left to his own devices and thoughts, he really would drive himself insane. So instead of taking Ishizu's advice, he decided to figure out his own way.
After countless sleepless nights of ignoring the callings of his own duel spirit, he finally gave in. While his focus was immersed in crafting ideas to help enhance Duel Monsters as a whole, the gentle tones of Kisara's voice floated into his subconscious. Upon actually being willing to witness the saddened spirit, he was astounded to see it resemble both a Blue Eyes White Dragon, as well as a wearing a face he remembered, yet couldn't place where he had seen it. The only word in his mind at that point was "Beautiful". Without realizing, he soon began to open his heart a little more, day by day to this spirit. When he actually accepted her for what she was as an entity, she informed him of danger and to prepare for the advent of a new gateway that may open up. Naturally, he wanted to refuse this type of bizarre and scientifically unexplainable information, let alone know what her sources were. But it was then, in that moment in time that Kisara informed him of the "Pokemon" world.
Since it seemed like he could do something great for his business to allow wider elements to the card game, then he would be eager towards the merging of battles and duels of both worlds. He had set out security and cameras everywhere via satellite in hopes of catching glimpse of such happenings or spies. When Ash and Misty were transported into this world, the satellite cameras picked up sightings of Pikachu first, then Ash and Misty.
In actuality, Mokuba was the one who saw Misty first and admitted to her beauty—through his eyes anyway. Kaiba gave no reply and made a few calls for someone to inform him on Misty and Ash's whereabouts. Who knows, perhaps he even enlisted Chazz to act as a diversion and to silently choose which one would be a good candidate to train, while another would be interrogated. Misty was just the "lucky" one.
"You're welcome..." Seto uttered without much passion. A beautiful smile graced Kisara's features and just as she made herself visible to him, she disappeared. After she did, Seto contacted his security team to discreetly keep eyes on Misty in any ways they saw fit. He did allow her to leave with valuable information after all. Then he resumed his work. Not a moment later than he had sat down in his swivel chair did the phone ring. On the half of the second ring, he answered it with a curt, "Kaiba" Once he heard the familiar vocals of his rival, Seto snorted and glanced at his clock, "It's about time you called..."
"I will be arriving shortly for our regularly scheduled duel, Kaiba. Moreover, Ishizu informed me that there was something you wanted to speak with me about? Dealing with duel spirits?"
Seto frowned and avoided the subject altogether, "Be ready to lose when you get here," was all he responded with before hanging up the phone.
Like the tinkling of chimes in the wind, somewhere in the room, he heard Kisara laugh lightly from his behavior.
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"Well that felt like a complete waste of time!" Misty huffed, hugging Pikachu close. The small animal barely flicked its ears in response to her voice while it rested I her cradle. Blizzed's silence mirrored that of Pikachu's as he followed behind Misty on his mighty legs.
"Ugh... dealing with guys like that make me thirsty!" she complained. Shutting her eyes, she sighed and shook her head. Her frizzy orange locks bounced and fluttered gingerly against her face as she did so. The glare of the evening sun tinged her skin and made her feel much hotter than what the temperature actually was.
"Thirsty? That sounds odd," Blizzed finally spoke, "Even for a human."
"Oh, look, there's a park over there! I can see the water fountain from here!" Misty exclaimed, cutting off Blizzed's remark altogether. Whether she meant to do it on purpose or not was up for speculation. "Let's go!" she announced, and dashed off towards the fountain. After a good few gulps of water, and allowing a now awakened Pikachu to drink, she let out a whoosh of air and laughed, "Ahhhh much better now. And since we're here, why don't we have a little fun on the swings?"
"Piiika!" Pikachu enthused.
Blizzed blinked at her, "I will leave that to the two of you...if you don't mind."
"See you them Blizzed!" she called. She allowed Pikachu to drop from her arms and warned it to stay close to Blizzed. On her way to the swings, she caught glimpse of a young man that completely stood out to her. Slender body, ghastly white hair and translucent fair skin swathed a dark outfit. To say the least, he was alluringly mysterious looking. Blushing faintly, Misty approached him to say hello. The boy looked at her; eyes wide and wary. Then in the next second, they were warm and very welcoming. "Hello, there, miss," he greeted politely; the hint of a British accent in his breathy voice.
"Um... hi! I'm Misty and I'm new here. What's your name?"
"Ryou" he smiled. His eyes seemed to study hers for a moment before trailing down over the bright colored top she wore, lacing over the rim of her azure shorts, to the device on her arm. A duel disk, of course. He asked a rather redundant question, "Do you play?"
"Hm?" she blinked.
"Duel Monsters?"
"Oh! Yes, I do. I guess you could call it playing," she chuckled a bit with a slight shrug, "I just started recently..."
"Wow, that's excellent news. Would you like to duel with me? I'd be awfully chuffed if you would. "
"Huh?" she questioned, tilting her head to the side. Not only was she trying to figure out his slang, but his behaviors, while gentle, were deceitfully advancing."You're certainly being awfully forward and friendly, aren't you?"
"Oh, sorry...! But, please, could we? It's not everyday I see a pretty girl like you with a duel disk."
Misty blushed and waved the compliment away, "Awww you're just saying that to make me feel good! Well, it's working! All right, Ryou. You've got yourself a duel!"
"Thank you!"
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While Misty was prepared for a duel, something she had not readied herself for was to follow some stranger she had just met through a graveyard! Granted, there was still a bit of daylight out, but the idea was still a tad unsettling.
"Is this an actual graveyard?" She questioned, rubbing her arms in trepidation. Frantically, she looked around to make sure no random corpse would pop out of an even more random open casket. Leading her through the place, Ryou snickered a little, then faced her with a reassuring expression, "Oh! No! Nothing like a REAL graveyard! It's only novelty. It's used for Halloween and such!" he laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head, "Besides, bringing a girl to graveyard alone for any kind of bonding is a terrible place! Especially as a first date. Ah- n-not that I'm implying that the two of us are going on a date!" he sputtered, lowering his head in embarrassment. Luckily for him, Misty found his verbal fumbling amusing and laughed. Seeing her appear so amused, Ryou soon found himself chuckling as well. After a few moments, their laughter subsided and the seriousness of the approaching duel enveloped them.
"Are you ready, Misty?"
"You bet I am! I'll start, ok?"
"Of course," Ryou chuckled, "Ladies first!"
"DUEL!" they both shouted.
"For my first turn, I'll play Medallion of the Ice Barrier. It allows me to get one Ice Barrier monster from my deck and add it to my hand," Misty stated, bringing a Dai-sojo of the Ice Barrier to join with Salvage, General Gantala of the Ice Barrier, General Raiho of the Ice Barrier, General Grunard of the Ice Barrier and her first turn draw of Cryomancer of the Ice Barrier. She selected the Salvage with the tips of her fingers and set it face down. This way, she could test her new opponent to see what kind of player he was, "I'll set a card and then I'll play Cryomancer of the Ice Barrier in attack mode ( ATK 1300/ DEF 0 ). That ends my turn."
"That was great, Misty!" Ryou cheered; sounding like a true smitten adolescent with a crush, "My turn, now," he announced before glancing over his hand, "Hmmm. Say uh... Misty... I'm sorry to do this... I hope you didn't have anything in your hand that you liked..."
"Huh? Why is that?"
"Because I'm getting rid of it with Card Destruction," he meekly addressed, showing her the card.
"Oh... That's ok. I didn't really have anything I could have used right away anyway haha" she giggled politely. Besides, she already had in play the cards she really wanted to use. She just needed one more Ice Barrier monster in play and she could fend off any offense over level 4. And if her Cryromancer was destroyed, she could use Salvage to bring it back after getting another monster in the Graveyard with 1500 or less ATK. Both players discarded their hands and drew a new one with the same number equal to the ones they relinquished.
Skimming his new hand over, Ryou's placid expression withered to a rather somber one. Steadily, his brown eyes glided towards the girl; giving Misty an unreadable look. And from being in a graveyard surrounded by crooked tombstones and open graves, that look only heightened her apprehensiveness. Just a little.
A sample of huskiness reverberated in his throat as he chose his words, "Sorry about this, Misty, but I need to ask... is that a trap card?"
"What?"
The sudden maturity in his tone continued. He almost sounded like someone else. Almost. "The card you have set, is it a trap? If it isn't, I'm afraid I win this turn..."
"But! It's only your first turn!" she retorted unconvincingly, "You have to be bluffing! There's no way you can have this game one already!"
"Ahhh I'm sorry, Misty! I mean it, I am! But, I have to keep going! Sorry! I'm normal summoning Zombie Master (ATK 1800/ DEF 0/ 4 stars)and using its effect to discard a Pyramid Turtle to bring back my Plaguespreader Zombie ( ATK 400/ DEF 200/ 2 stars) that was gotten rid of from Card Destruction. Also, because Plaguespreader Zombie is a Tuner monster, I can merge him with a non-Tuner monster by adding up the exact number of stars. Doing this, allows me to create a Synchro Summon!" he proclaimed. From the mention of his actions, the two monsters ascended into the air( Zombie Master/ 4 stars + Plaguespreader Zombie/ 2 stars= 6 stars). A beam of ivory light passed through them and assimilated with their bodies, casting them in a transparent glow as they merged.
"What! Wait a minute! Blizzed didn't teach me about those...!" Misty shouted, more so to herself than Ryou. Annoyed, she cursed the duel spirit in her mind. He was really going to get it when she found him!
"That allows me to bring out Revived King Ha Des! ( ATK 2450/ DEF 0/ 6 stars )" he continued, smiling faintly as his new monster lowered from the air and crossed its arms upon its descent. "Also for this turn, I'll play Book of Life to reclaim my Goblin Zombie ( ATK 1100/ DEF 1050/ 4 stars) that was also discarded. And by using Plaguespreader Zombie's ( ATK 400/ DEF 200/ 2 stars) special ability, I can bring him back to the field as a Special Summon as long as I return a card from my hand to the top of my deck and I remove him from play once he leaves the field. Next, I'll Synchro Summon again for another Revived King Ha Des ( ATK 2450/ DEF 0 ). And due to Goblin Zombie's effect, when it's sent from the field to the Graveyard, I can add one Zombie type monster with 1200 or less defense from my deck to my hand. And I choose another Zombie Master."
"W-what? Hey wait! This is all too much!"
"To play it safe, and to make sure I don't waste any attack points, I'm playing Tribute to the Doomed. By discarding a card from my hand, I'm able to destroy one monster on the field...And I choose your Cryomancer. Now," he paused, giving her a serious look, "I'll ask again. Are you sure the card you set is not a trap card?"
"..." There was no point in her saying much of anything now. She already felt terrible, knowing she was going to lose on just his first turn. And Ryou merely confirmed it.
"Because now, you will lose," he advised softly. He then raised a hand and signaled his monsters to be at the ready, "Please, attack her directly."
With various sounds of acceptance towards the order, both monsters advanced towards Misty with their weapons, claws and dark magic alike, prepared. The defeated girl let out a scream as her life points were assaulted and its value shrank to zero ( LP 4000- 4900 overkill damage = LP 0 ).
"Uggh! No! I can't believe it!" she shrieked, "In only one turn! It's actually possible to do that in this game?"
"Y-yeah it is...!"
"You didn't cheat did you?" Misty accused, storming over to Ryou with a sharp finger aimed directly at him. Nervous, he took a step back and let her poke him in the chest with her accusations.
"Again, I'm really sorry I had to do that! But I do prefer to win when I can, you know!" he attempted to force a laugh but it sounded as unsure and shaky as he was. Not getting any satisfaction from this, Misty let out an irritated guttural sound and turned to her back to him. Arms on her haunches, she started to walk away from him.
"Misty? Wait! where are you going?"
"Away!"
"Don't leave yet! It was just a duel!" Ryou pleaded, jogging to catch up with her, "You're not from around here, right? What place is next for you to visit?"
"Not telling you!" she pouted. Then she stopped. With a heavy sigh, she turned and faced Ryou, giving him proper respect, "Look., I'm sorry for being such a sore loser, but I've never experienced anything like that before! How can you do that?"
"Ahhh don't make me feel any worse than I already do, Misty! We can always duel another time! I'll be around. With hair like mine, I'm not too difficult to find...!"
"... haha... heeheehee...!" Misty giggled lightly. Try as she might to stay upset with him, he was too cute to her to stay angry for long. Seeing her laugh was a delicate sight for Ryou. It was something he would secretly cherish for a while.
"W-well, I won't hold you up. It was awfully nice meeting you. Cheers for the duel! Bye now," he waved.
"Um bye..." she returned the gesture, but he had already turned and dashed off with haste. Her eyes remained on his shrinking form until it disappeared from her line of vision. Ryou was quite a strange boy. Attractive, but strange. While she did enjoy the time spent with him somewhat, at this point I time she just wanted to gather Pikachu and Blizzed and get in touch with Ash. Yes, Ash. Although he annoyed her a lot, he was the only other person she shared a world with...
She really must have been at a deeper loss that she thought from that duel if she was actually hoping to get a call from Ash. And speak of the devil... Misty jumped as her cell went off. Checking it, she was half surprised, and half jubilant to see that Ash actually had contacted her. But instead of a phone call, he sent her a very long text message about his duel that he won against Syrus. Afterwards, he mentioned that Chazz was on his way to collect her and bring her to the dorms. Finished reading, Misty sighed; reflecting on the day's events. She needed to get better at this game. For both worlds and most importantly, for herself.
For those who don't know, the code Mokuba punched in for the elevator is the Konami Code( up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start)...used in some Konami games to get secret power ups, characters, extra lives, hidden menus, random stuff like that. It's touched on that he liked to play Contra 4 on the DS while Seto would rather play Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance on a GBA as the hidden character Simon Belmont in Boss Rush mode. 8 bit midget for the win, I guess lol I thought that would be funny...since the DM card game is made by Konami and all...yeah... LAUGH I SAY!
-Mel