Yu-gi-oh
No Limits
Chapter 22-Father Guido Sarducci
By Kevin Jones
It is a cool October morning. A rain storm from the previous night has left the entire running track around the school wet. Thanks to everything being wet and the warm rays of the sun hitting the entire area, consisting of the track, football field and bleachers, the area seem brighter. This is in sharp contrast to Vanessa and her black sweat pants and Pink hooded sweat shirt, her long red hair currently in a bun.
"Damn it," is what she is saying in her mind, "why won't Chase ever tell me anything? My neighbors get kidnapped and him and Kai go running off into danger only for them to come back completely shocked and just tell Toni and I to be quiet. God I swear, sometimes, those 2 just make me- what the, Whys Kai walking out of the school with a box?"
"Morning," Kai yells as he notices Vanessa on the track,
Vanessa stops running and heads over to the bleachers by Kai.
"What are you doing here? I thought classes here don't start till 7:30."
"They don't, she pauses to catch her breath, "I always jog in the morning before classes."
"Do you do a sport or something?"
"No, I always have a lot of energy so if I don't do something in the morning to wear me out a bit; I'll spend the whole day jittery."
Vanessa takes a deep breath, lifts her arms up and undoes the bun in her hair causing a large plume fiery hair to fall down onto her back.
"I'm awake," says Kai.
"Wait what?"
"Never mind."
"So what are you doing here anyways?"
"Well, it's a little hard to explain."
"I got time."
"Well, I don't want you to panic, but… Chase was in an accident last night."
"Chase was in an accident!"
"Easy there, we don't want all of Manhattan to know."
Kai appears to be remaining calm, which is in sharp contrast to Vanessa who is now wide eyed, and panicky.
"Well, what happened?"
"First of all, you're going to need to calm down because Chase is fine. We were practicing with our Runners last night when the storm started. Chase lost control of his Runner and was thrown off."
"Well is he alright? Is he in the hospital?"
"Actually I brought him back to my apartment. He's fine, but he's a little banged up so I figured it would be best if he just spent the rest of the day resting at my place."
"Then why'd you come here for?"
"Well naturally we can't leave Steve alone so I'm sneaking him out of here."
Vanessa looks into the box to see the small black Porcupine sleeping in a ball.
"Strangely enough, the more I see him, the less weirder it gets that Chase actually keeps him... what's with the brown paper bag?"
"Well", Kai's tone has now turned from calm to hesitant, "for one reason or another I can't get Chase to take any medicine to take the edge off, so before I got here I stopped at, well..."
Vanessa carefully pulls the brown paper bag out and looks inside.
"You bought him a bottle of Tequila!"
"Well what else am I suppose to do, and please stop yelling!"
"Your plan is to get him plastered!"
"It's either that or listen to him bitch about his pane."
"Your both, under aged."
"Oh come on, it's a safe bet Chase was also under aged to save the world."
"You bought this illegally!"
"It's not illegal if my fake I.D. is crap and the guy at the 24 hour liquor store believed it anyways."
"Then what do you call it!"
"Doesn't matter, I got the Tequila."
"I should go with you."
"That's probably not a good idea."
"Why is that?"
"First of all, you smell like sweat."
"I was running."
"Hens the smell, I can't even imagine how your classmates put up with it."
"Obviously I shower first."
"Well as much as I'd like for you to use my shower there is another reason."
"What's that?"
"Don't take this the wrong but you'll probably make his pane worse."
"Oh come on, what could I possibly do to make him feel worse?"
"He doesn't like you."
"What?"
"Oh don't worry, this is just something you 2 will have to get used to when you get married."
"Kai!"
"What, you 2 bicker like your pretty much husband and wife already."
"That's not funny."
"On the contrary, I think it's very funny. Well I better get going."
"You're sure you don't want me to come?"
"Its best for everyone, don't worry one day I'm sure you'll make him scream in a good way."
"What does that mean?"
"Never mind, later Nes."
Vanessa looks over at the empty seat next to her. She is entering 4Th period the same way she entered the shower, breakfast, and her last 3 periods, annoyed at Kai and Chase.
"Damn it Chase, how do you end up giving me a headache, even when you're not here."
She is whispering this only to herself, ignoring the fact that there teacher is not in the room.
"And where does Kai get off saying I will have to worry about Chase's attitude "when we get married"." She says this in a mocking tone.
"Who could even fathom the idea that I would ever be interested in some self centered, uncaring, duel obsessed jerk. I mean for crying out loud-"
"Jew Girl, where's Chase?"
"What the-," Vanessa slowly turns her head because unfortunately she knows who the voice belongs to.
"What are you doing here Millay?"
"Chase wasn't in our last class. The last time he missed a class he came back with a Criminal Mark so way I figure it, it's probably best to stay on top of him as best as possible."
"What I do I look like, his Girl Friend and better yet how do you know we have this class together?"
"No, and none of your business."
"Then what do you think I am his Keeper?"
"Well you do spend a considerable amount of time with him, plus I don't know where to find the other 2 that make up your little group so that just leaves me with you."
"Well I don't know where he is and frankly, if you want to keep tabs on him then why don't you be his girlfriend."
"Listen skank, you better not be trying to be smart with me, because if you are, I will-"
"Excuse me Ms. Dewint, but if I'm correct you don't have me till next period."
Millay creeps around to find Moretti standing behind her.
"Is something the matter?"
He has one eye brow raised and Vanessa can till Millay has no power over the old teacher.
"I just came here to get... yesterday's English assignment from my BFF Vanessa.
Millay puts on a large white smile and raps her right arm around Vanessa's neck."
"Ms. Aaronson is this true?"
"Come on, just tell him what she said," Vanessa says to herself.
Millay tightens her grip around Vanessa's neck.
"She's telling the truth sir."
"Very well then, now, Ms. Dewint, I have a class to teach."
With that, Millay scurries off, stops as she exits the room, turns her whole body to her right and makes a perplexing look.
Vanessa raises an eyebrow for whatever Millay is looking at is behind the wall next to the doorway. Millay then nervously backs away and then runs off.
"Now that I'm settled, for class today we have a guest speaker. He's here visiting New York City from the Vatican for an article he's writing for the official Vatican Newspaper, Father Guido Sarducci."
With that a tall old man slowly enters the room.
Vanessa instantly feels as if she's seen this man somewhere before. Even though she has no recollection of knowing a man who wears a big black Homburg hat, tinted square eye glasses, grey hair that goes half way down his neck as well as grey a mustache.
As he gets to the front of the room Vanessa can also see he's wearing his formal priest uniform under a white tiger patterned suit with a black robe over it.
"Good a morning students. It's a good to know my old a friend Robby has such interesting looking classes. I mean seriously, if this was my class on being a Priest back in the Vatican, there would only be boys because they don't allow girls to become Priests."
His voice doesn't necessarily sound Italian is what Vanessa's thinking, she also feels as if there's something "artificial" with the way this man looks.
As Vanessa looks around the class room, she See's a collection of uncaring faces, which tells her that most of the students are just happy that they don't have to remember anything for a test.
"Alright then," she says to herself but her thoughts are interrupted when she smells a warm tar like smell coming from in front of her.
"So... it is a very important... to have a religion."
Vanessa pinches her nose, as she watches the old man take a drag on a long white cigarette.
"Without a religion then what are you going to believe... you just have to make sure that the religion you pick is Catholicism, because Catholicism is the right one. Why do I know this? Because I feel in me that we Catholics, we got it right and when dealing with God, you got a feel it's true never mind, what actually makes a sense."
Vanessa considers the man's words to be odd to say the least however she is more concerned with keeping the smoke away from her face. Both her mother and Step Father smoke, even though both Vanessa and her Grandfather protest it.
"Plus, it helps that we are the most...popular religion in the world, so you know that if you chose to be a catholic, then you're with the majority of people. Now I'm not saying that you have to be a Catholic, but being a Catholic is pretty nice. Now I don't want to take up anymore of your class time, so if you'd like to learn about what's so nice about being a Catholic I'll being speaking in front of your, how do you say... tennis court during, your lunch break, today. So please, I welcome you all to learn more about what the majority says is the truth about God."
With that, the old man begins to walk out of the room and closes the door behind him.
"Now then, did we all enjoy our guest speaker...? OK then; now, since it's too late to start the test, we will use the rest of the class for review. Now then...
"That weird," Vanessa thinks, "something didn't seem right about that guy. Maybe he's- no, I refuse to be like Chase. Just because I'm board doesn't mean every odd thing that happens is part of a conspiracy. Either way, Kai said it be best if I don't bother Chase. So that's that, I'm Jewish so this guy's irrelevant to me anyways which means that I have no reason to bother Chase."
…
"Can I speak to Chase?"
"You do remember what I said this morning, right?"
"I know, it's just that, there's something really weird going on here."
"Define weird."
"Well there's a Catholic Priest visiting our school."
"I'm Latino, do you really think that you can't make a Catholic Priest seem weird to me."
"This isn't funny, I really think that there's something wrong with this guy."
"Wow, you really sound worried… OK but I warn you, I couldn't get Chase to drink the Tequila."
Vanessa looks over by the Tennis courts. The Priest has a relatively good sized group, consisting of about 20 people.
"What do you want?"
Vanessa jumps as she hears the grumpy, aggravated and worn out voice of her bed ridden classmate.
"Hm, well… how are you feeling?"
"What do you think?"
"That bad?"
"And getting worse, now what is it?"
"Did Professor Moretti mention anything about a guest speaker coming in today?"
"No."
"Would he tell us if he did?"
"Probably not, is there a point to all this?"
"Well, today a Catholic Priest from the Vatican came to speak to the class."
"Did he look down your shirt or blame all the wars on the Jews?"
"What, no! Listen there's something not right about this guy."
"I don't think there's something right with anybody who thinks that there a hot line to some supreme being."
"That's not what I mean!"
"Then what do you mean?"
"What if he's from Segas?"
"…If that's the case," his voice is now calm, alert and has a hint of worry in it, "stay away from him. If he's looking for me then he'll probably still be at the school when I come back tonight, understand."
"Understood, but-… hello, hello? He hung up! Why as soon as he- no, no, it's my fault for thinking he would wait for me to stop talking like a normal person would."
Vanessa closes her phone and sticks it into her jacket pocket. The cold fall weather has left Vanessa in her white Denim jacket. As she puts her hands in her pockets, she leans her back against the red brick wall of the school. She shifts the gaze of her light green eyes back towards the tennis court only to see that everyone is leaving and the so called "Priest" is nowhere in sight.
Vanessa closes her eyes and leans her head against the cold stone wall.
"Oh man," she says to no one in particular, "I'm just supposed to be a normal teenage girl and all this should just be something in a book. Its times like this that"-
She is interrupted by the sound of the school bell, indicating that lunch is now over.
"I should have eaten instead of watching this guy all lunch break long."
She moves her body off the rock and turns around, preparing to walk to class.
"Is something the matter, my dear?"
Vanessa almost jumps out of her skin as she realizes the Priest is right in front of her.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was on my way to my next a lecture, when I saw you standing here… all a by yourself. You were in Moretti's fourth period class right?"
"Yes, what do you want?"
"I saw you standing here alone and with what looks like a lot on your mind."
"I was just standing here, enjoying a little peace and quiet."
She can tell that she is not doing a good job of hiding the fear in her voice.
"You do not have to lie; as a man of God, I can always tell when I see a face that is truly in need of guidance."
He is now moving closer to Vanessa who is in response moving farther away.
"I don't need any guidance. I'm perfectly happy and healthy."
"That's not what Moretti told me."
Vanessa's heart stops for a moment, only for it to once again start racing.
"You asked my teacher about me?"
"Yes, he said you mainly only seam to really talk to one other student in the class. A boy named Chase Rhodes."
"I don't see how that is any of your business."
Vanessa's back is now again against the wall.
"Well it just seems odd that a beautiful girl like you would only seem to have one friend here."
"I'm, I'm, I'm not that pretty."
Vanessa is now shaking as the man is now close enough that she can smell the scent of tobacco on him, she is hoping that he cannot in turn see the sweat now forming under her bangs.
"Oh, on the contrary, I think you're very pretty."
He is now lifting his right hand very slowly. Vanessa, too frightened to move, watches as it appears to come closer and closer, and closer and closer and close- the man is startled as he suddenly he hears another school bell.
"Damn, that must be the late bell. I'd recommend you come to my next lecture in the auditorium after school today. You'll find it is in your best interest to come."
The man jolts into the building. As soon as he's out of sight Vanessa slides down the wall and barrios her face into her legs.
"Damn it!" She yells.
"Why Chase, why is it the one time you actually hurt yourself on that stupid death trap is the one day I need you here!"
She feels as if she's about to cry but suddenly she can feel something inside her. She doesn't feel like crying anymore. Instead she gets up and pulls out her cell phone.
"If Chase can't be here to stop this guy, then I will."
…
"Now remember kids, all people need to believe in something and since Catholicism is the most popular Religion in the world, you know you'll be in good company. So this Sunday, instead of just sitting on the couch at home, visit your local Catholic church and save your soul from damnation."
The audience of about 24 people clapped as the Priest took his final bow. He then proceeded to walk off stage and into a room behind the stage.
As he enters the room, he is stopped by a familiar sight sitting cross legged on a brown fold out chair.
"Oh my, Ms. Aaronson, I did not expect this."
"Did you expect this?"
The Priest is now startled as he hears another girls voice coming from behind him. He jumps around to see a short black haired girl standing in the door way.
"Who, exactly, are you."
"The names Toni, and according to my friend over here, you were getting a little too close for comfort."
"Girls, girls, girls, I believe there's been a misunderstanding."
"How exactly is there a misunderstanding in you trying to feel me up?"
"What exactly are you talking about?"
"Don't play dumb, you tried to get some out of my friend. Last time checked, Catholic Priests only did that with little boys, not young ladies."
"Ms… Toni," he is now facing Toni and is moving his hand towards Toni's shoulder, "do I really look like the kind of man who would"-
Toni quickly grabs the man's creeping arm and flips the man on to the floor hard on his back.
"Admit it, you're with Segas!" Shouts out Toni.
"What exactly is this Segas?"
"Ok that's it! Tell us who you really are!"
"Miss, I'm afraid you must be confused-"
"Cut the crap and tell us what you want!"
"I told you who I Am."
"Fine then, if you won't tell us then I'll duel it out of you!"
"…If you insist."
Toni
"Why exactly is it you want to duel?"
"Don't play dumb, I know the way you Segas guys work."
The Priest is now scratching his face with a perplexing look.
"And how is that exactly?"
"You want us to duel and when we win, your super powered Duel Disk, will stop working, and with your weapon gone, you'll be at our mercy!"
"Fine, you may have the first move."
"Gladly, I summon, Blackwing-Shura the Blue Flame (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1200)! Next I set 1 card face down and end my turn."
Sarducci
"I summon, Luster Dragon (ATK: 1900/DEF: 1600), now Luster Dragon, attack her Shura!"
The large blue Dragon fires a blast of blue flames, incinerating the tall blue bird. (4000-3900)
"I set 1 card face down and end my turn."
Toni
"My draw… revenge time. Now because you control a monster and I don't, I can normal summon, Blackwing-Sirocco the Dawn (ATK: 2000/DEF: 900) straight from my hand."
A large, Black-winged bird man now stands in front of a field that will soon consist of only 1 monster.
"I'm in trouble, aren't I?"
"You bet, now Sirocco, attack, dark wing slash!"
The bird man's long black claws suddenly became as long as swords as they slid the long neck of the sapphire Dragon. (4000-3900)
"That's it for me; now make your move old man."
Sarducci
"Be careful what you wish for. I summon Twin-Headed Behemoth (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1200) in defense mode. Next I set 1 card and end my turn.
Toni
"You can do it Toni; you've already got him on the ropes!"
"Damn straight, I summon Blackwing-Bora the Spear. (ATK: 1700/DEF: 800) Now Bora, take out his Behemoth, Cyclone spear!"
The orange headed bird threw its long drill like spear right threw the dragon armed monster. (3900-3400)
"Why did I take a damage?"
"When Bora successfully destroys a monster, you take piercing damage. Now Sirocco, keep the damage going! (3400-1400) Now let's see what your final moves going to be!"
"Fine, but first, now that it's your end phase, I get my Twin-Headed Behemoth back but with only 1000 ATK and DEF points."
Sarducci
"Oh God, give me the card I need… thank you God. "I activate my face down card, Call of the Haunted! Now I can special Luster Dragon back from the graveyard, but he won't be here for long; now I tribute Luster Dragon and Twin-Headed Behemoth in order to summon, the deadly Red-Eyes Black Dragon!" (ATK: 2400/DEF: 2000)
The large Black Dragon takes up most of the room and the red light that is now coming out of its mouth is also covering the whole room.
"Now Red-Eyes, Inferno Fire Blast on Bora The Spear!"
"Oh no you don't, I activate my trap card, Dimensional Prison, now your overgrown salamander gets removed from play!"
"Not quite, I also activate a trap but thanks to my Trap Jammer I can discard a card to negate the activation of your trap and destroy it."
A large red ball has now been fired and it has now cooked the orange and yellow bird. (3900-3200)
"I've taken plenty of Red Eyes down before!"
"True, but not one quite like mine; I set 2 card face-down and end my turn."
Toni
"My draw, actually, I think I'm going to take this Red Eyes down like I would any other. I summon Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind (Level: 3/ATK: 1300/DEF: 400) in attack mode. Now Gale may not look like much but once per turn, I can select 1 face up monster you control and halve its ATK and DEF points!"
With no sign of fear, the small purple bird flies up to the big black dragon and with a flap of its wings weakens the dragon to a level even it could fight at. (ATK: 2400-1200/DEF: 2000-1000)
"Now, Gale, attack his Dragon!"
"Sorry but no dice, I activate my trap card, Curse of Anubis!"
"Toni what's it do?"
"I have no idea."
"Well then, let me explain. Now, all face-up EffectMonsters on the field are changed to Defense Position, plus you can't change their battle positions for the remainder of the turn."
"Fine then, I set 1 card face down and end my turn."
Sarducci
"My draw, and now my dear; it's time to end this duel. I tribute Red-Eyes Black Dragon in order to special summon Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon!" (ATK: 2400/DEF: 2000)
The black Dragon now has streaks of orange running along its body as well as several large orange crystals on its head, legs, chest and wings.
"Well as fearsome as this thing looks, you still ain't beating me this turn."
"Apparently you forgot about my other face down. I activate, Dragon's Rage!"
"Fine, I admit, the idea that all your Dragons can now inflict Piercing damage is still scary, but no matter who you attack, I'll still have plenty of life points."
"Normally you'd be right, but, while I control my Darkness Dragon, he gains 300 ATK for every Dragon in my graveyard." (2400-3600)
"Don't you only have 3?"
"I've summoned 3, plus the second Red-Eyes Black Dragon that I sent to the Graveyard for my Trap Jammer."
"Oh crap, that makes it one strong lizard."
"Indeed, now Red-Eyes end this! Destroy her Gale and end this duel, Inferno Darkfire!"
"This may not be over just yet! I play Chaos Form!"
"Toni, why is your Graveyard slot beeping?"
"Because Nes thanks to Chaos Form, my graveyard now shuffles itself, when it's done it will reveal to me 1 of my monsters, after that Gale's ATK and DEF will become equal to the selected monster. All right, it's done… well what do you know, it's Blackwing-Bora the Spear, now Gale gains Bora's ATK and DEF." (ATK: 1300-1700/DEF: 400-800) (3200-400)
"Your monster has still been destroyed."
"At least I'm still in this."
"Let's see how long that lasts, I end my turn."
Toni
"Come on deck; give me the 1 card I need… yes! Now it's my turn to bring out the big guns. I summon Blackwing-Mistral the Silver Shield, (Level: 2/ATK: 100/DEF: 1800) now I know my armored bird doesn't look like much but watch what happens when he gives my Sirocco a little tune up!"
Mistral flew up into the air face first, once it went as high as it could go its silver shield began to shine like a bright star, when the light became too bright the bird turned into 2 large green rings and as Sirocco flew through them he suddenly dematerialized into 5 shining stars and with the wind circling around it, (2+5=7) "I synchro summon, Blackwing Armor Master!" (ATK: 2500/DEF: 1500)
This new bird is a tall man like creature covered with black armor except for its exposed muscular abdomen.
"That monster isn't strong enough to defeat my Dragon."
"Oh just wait, because Armor Master can't be destroyed by battle and I don't take damage during battles he's involved in!"
As Armor Master attacks, the Dragon fires a large crimson fire blast from its mouth. Armor Master dodges this blast and punches the creature hard on the gem on its forehead, leaving a sharp black object jabbed in the now cracked gem.
"What was that suppose to do?"
"You'll see but for now I'm just going to end my turn."
Sarducci
"My draw… seeing as I can't destroy your monster I'll just end my turn with 1 face down card."
Toni
"My turn and its game over!"
"Why is that?"
"Because now that it's my turn I can activate Blackwing Armor Master's special ability! Now I can remove the Wedge Counter on your Red-Eyes in order to make your monsters ATK and DEF 0 until the end phase!" (ATK: 3600-0/DEF: 2000-0)
Now that the Wedge Counter has vanished, the Dragon now looks sickly, the glowing energy being emitted from its orange gems have now become dim, its wings and tail our now all that is stopping it from falling to the floor.
"Now Blackwing Armor Master, Black Hurricane!"
Armor Master flew high in the sky, tightened its fist, and slammed down hard on the dragon, snapping its neck once and for all.
"Trap card, Mirror score! Now you take the same amount of damage as I do!" (1400-0) (400-0)
Draw
"Awesome duel guys."
Toni and Vanessa quickly turn their heads towards a now open door.
"What the hell!"
Toni says this in response to seeing Kai in the door way.
"Kai, what, what are you doing here?"
"Well Vanessa… I guess the easiest way to explain is for Chase to tell the story."
"Wait did you just say? ..."
With confused looks on their faces, Toni and Vanessa turn around and see the priest laughing.
"I guess the games over."
Both girls are now wide eyed as they realize that they just heard Chase's voice out of the Priests mouth.
He is now laughing as he removes his hat. Upon removing his hat everyone now sees's jet black hair that is now falling over the man's face. He then puts his hands on the back of his head and is now ripping his face off.
"What the hell is going on around here!"
"Chill Toni, at least let me get this mask off."
The face of the old mustached man has been replaced with the young face of a boy with a criminal mark on his right cheek.
"So what do you think, did I play a good enough Priest?"
"Oh definitely," starts Kai, "I can't wait to tell Randal how convincing his makeup looks."
"Make up?"
"Well Vanessa, I guess I should explain. You see my new roommate is learning how to become a makeup artist for movies."
"And the other night while I was over there, Randal asked if he could try out his skills on my face and that's where we came up with this prank."
"Prank, apparently you spent the whole day confusing people about Catholicism!"
"I'm an Atheist, the idea of making a mockery of Catholicism brings me as much as joy as humanly possible."
"But your voice- and better yet I called you while watching your lunch time performance!"
"You mean my lunch time performance," says Kai.
"But, but, but,"-
"My voice a sound like a this, thanks to this device."
Chase is now speaking like the priest while pointing at the Gold Medallion around his neck.
"For the lunch time performance we decided it be best if Chase sat out for a little while, and with the Medallion voice changer plus a second mask that was designed just for my face we were able to have Chase distract you if you called."
"But I talked to you first?"
"You do remember what I said this morning, right?"
Everyone looks back at Chase who is now holding a tape recorder.
"O.k. fair enough, but how did you trick the Head Master into letting you do all this?"
"I didn't, Moretti loves a good joke so when I told him about this, he was more than happy to push the test back to tomorrow."
"Then what's with the Dragon deck?"
"Every now and again I'll build a replica deck based on popular decks, so I can learn how they work, for example the most common flaw in a dragon deck is being able to summon strong ones in time."
"So you did all this to make fun of Catholics?"
"That's one of the reasons."
"What's the other?"
"You've spent the past few days walking around like someone's got a gun to your head."
"I'm worried."
"Worried, what about, Segas?"
"You 2 won't tell me and Toni what's going on."
"Yeah because there's nothing we can do about what's going on. Your neighbors returned home safely right?"
Vanessa nods.
"For now all any of us can do is move forward. For now, whatever happens happens and letting it get to you will only make things worse when something does happen."
"So wait… you did all this, to help me?"
"God no, you've been irritating me so much with all this, that the idea of getting to mess with you like this was a chance I wasn't going to let go."
Vanessa and Toni's faces are now turning bright red, there clenching their fists and making angry noises.
"Chase," starts a now worried sounding Kai, "we should probably get out of here."
In an instant, Chase and Kai dash out of the room and then out of the auditorium with Vanessa and Toni close behind.
"Chase," yells Vanessa, "when I get my hands on you, you're going to need a Priest!"
…
"What a day, how is it that nobody was able to recognize the name of SNL character Guido Sarducci and why does Vanessa have to such a bad temper and strong arms."
"Serves you right," says Debris Dragon.
"It was a damn joke and either way, why on earth did she say that I tried to grab her chest during lunch?"
"She seemed to believe it."
"Well, Kai was giving a speech and we were just getting back from the diner across the street when she claimed it happened."
"Well she seemed truthful."
"I know but"-
"Rhodes, over here."
I look to my right. I'm right now in the entrance to the dormitory. Here there is an old front desk where an even older man named Bob tells us if we've got mail.
"I have mail?"
"Yup, it was in your box when I came in this morning."
The letter has no markings on it; I have a bad feeling where it's from.
"How were you sure it was in the right box?"
"Wouldn't be the first time unmarked stuff gets delivered to you."
"Has Chase been a bad boy?"
"Fair enough, but I don't remember ordering this."
I bend down, unhook the cover over my shoes compartment and pull out my pocket knife.
"I'm just going to pretend I'm not seeing that."
I put the blade of the knife into the crease on the white envelope and carefully slice the letter open. I then, put only the corners of my right thumb and index finger on the paper inside. I then slowly pull out a white folded piece of paper. If need be I don't want to get too many of my finger prints on the letter. I lay the envelope on the table and place the corner of my left thumb and index finger on the corner of the sheet. The bottom of the sheet is now falling open and it looks like the letter is from… oh no.
"Well who's it from?"
"Just a bill for the last piece I ordered for my Runner. Thanks for the letter Bob."
"Night Chase."
I quickly sprint out of the entrance and into the empty hall way.
"OK Chase what does it really say," asks Debris Dragon.
The letter reads.
Dear Mr. Rhodes
The time has now come for you to truly test your skills. This is your official invitation into the King's Championship. He or she who wins this tournament will be given power beyond which any one person could ever imagine. Further details will be given on October 27, 2040 at 10: 30 A.M. in the office of Judge Franklin Taft. We hope you will participate for you will gain the challenge you crave and in exchange, if you can rise to the challenge, you will receive the power of a King. From all of us here at Segas, have a pleasant day.
Next Time: The King's Championship
"Now then, so you all don't think that this is merely a joke, for all your viewing pleasure, a duel featuring the Grand Master of Segas."