Chapter 14 : A Shocking Discovery

It was now Tuesday and Yusei, Jack and Crow now had 1 and a half weeks before the annual Grand Prix. Yuko had heard that Akiza might participate this year as well, if she had enough time to practice on her turbo dueling skills.

This morning, the trio (Yusei, Jack and Crow) had left early to go test out the new engine which had been completed due to last nights hard work, so Yuko found himself to be alone in the house, and sleepily went downstairs for a shower.

He stood there, daydreaming in the shower cubical about the discussion he had had yesterday with officer Trudge. He had lied to a security officer, and knew that if he would be caught to be in possession of the psychic duel disk, there may be major consequences. As Yuko applied his shower gel, a curious idea popped into his head. He quickly finished cleaning up, put on his PJs (since he had no intention of leaving the house, and his PJ's were very comfortable) and ran upstairs to the brown box kept under his bed. He decided that since the others weren't gonna be back until at least midday, he had time to explore what officer Trudge meant about the psychic power being contained within the duel disk. Even if Yuko knew that the duel disk was dangerous, he let his curiosity get the better of him.

Yuko slid the duel disk on to his wrist and went back down stairs to take a closer look at it. As he studied it closely, he instantly found it to be much different to a normal duel disk. There was only 1 monster card zone and 4 S/T card zones around it. The deck and graveyard seemed normal enough, but there was no field spell zone.

Yuko looked at it, confused and turned it on with the flick of a small side switch. It made the humming sound similar to when a computer turns on and the whole disk seemed to illuminate brightly.

Yuko placed himself in the middle of the room where he hoped not to damage his surroundings and reach out for his deck that was put on the Tv table.

He looked through it hesitantly, trying to find the weakest monster he could find and put it in his hand. He then put the rest of his cards back onto the table and looked back at the card he had chosen.

"Hanawata. This card shouldn't be too bad", Yuko told himself, and looked back down at the empty monster card zone. He took a deep breath and gently placed "Hanawata" over it.

Suddenly the card immediately latched itself on to the zone and the card started to glow a very white light. Yuko closed his eyes and could hear the humming sound of the duel disk increase in speed and volume. The light continued to increase, almost blinding Yuko that he needed to additionally use his hand to cover his eyes.

Then it all stopped as quickely as it had started, and all went quiet. Yuko opened one eye to see what had happened to the state of the room. Nothing. Everything was still in it's place and nothing had changed. Yuko opened both eyes and scratched his upper back, a little confused, when all of a sudden, a soft rustling sound came from the ground beneath him.

Yuko froze, and looked down slowly and cautiously. Rubbing against his left leg was a small puffy ball of yellow fur with two sort of antennas popping out of it.

Yuko looked at it, a little shaken and took a step back. The ball then toppled over, making a small squeaking sound and rolled over, revealing 2 large eyes and a small kitty face mouth.

Yuko's eyes widened and he nearly jumped in surprise. The ball quickly got up and bounced over to Yuko's leg. Yuko took a few more steps back and fell back onto the couch, bumping his head against the wall.

Ow! God Damn!" he yelled, and the ball made a very high pitched squeak and hid under Yusei's computer chair. Yuko sat up quickly and stared at it, the ball of fur looking back at him. Was this Hanawata? If so, how come he could feel it stroking his leg?

Yuko looked down at the duel disk and to his astonishment, he could see that Hanawata was not in the picture anymore. "Whoa" gasped Yuko. Did this mean that Hanawata was now real?

Yuko got up and went over to a cupboard, right beside the fridge. He took out a big box of his favorite cereal and poured out the chocolate flavoured cereal into a small bowl, then putting it on the ground. If he was right, and that Hanawata was in fact real, then he would expect Hanawata to eat the food which he had placed for it. Hanawata looked at the bowl and squeaked in delight. It bounced over to the bowl and started nibbling away at the cereal.

Yuko chuckled, amazed about how a duel monster could be hungry, put the box of cereal back into the cupboard and kneeled down next to Hanawata. He took a deep breath and put his hand out over Hanawata, trying hard to steady his breathing. As he gently lowered his hand, he felt his fingers make sudden contact with the tips of the yellow fur.

Yuko smiled. "This is incredible" he thought, and started to stroke the fur. It was soft, very fluffy and Hanawata seemed to like the fact that Yuko was giving it some attention.

Yuko looked at the duel disk. "This really is a special duel disk" he told himself, but began to feel to feel that it was wrong to keep it. It was true that it was a dangerous device, in the wrong hands, it could destroy buildings, maybe even New Domino City.

Yuko noticed Hanawata finish the last of the cereal and smiled. It then spread its wings and flew over to land on Yuko's head. Yuko smirked. He remembered that Hanawata had wings and could in fact fly.

Yuko began to pace around the room. What was he gonna do about this duel disk? Was he gonna give it to security? Keep it maybe? Was he gonna tell the others? There were so many questions rotating through Yuko's head that he just couldn't think staight, nor keep still. Though the first question which he needed to ask himself was, how was he gonna get Hanawata back in its card?

He looked at the duel disk and saw to the side of the duel disk, a small red button. He hesitated and took one last look at Hanawata (who was flying in circles just above Yuko) and pressed it.

Suddenly, Hanawata vanished after a flash of light an the humming sound of the duel disk seised.

Yuko sat on the couch, still astounded at what he had experienced just a few seconds ago. He looked back at the card and saw Hanawata imprinted back on to it. Yuko smiled at the picture and allowed the experience to sink in.

"I need some air" he thought to himself, and dashed out the house in his PJ's.

He strolled down the street, and noticed people staring at him as he passed them. However, Yuko didn't really feel fully down-to-earth yet and ignored them, feeling rather cheerful as he was making his way towards the "Cafe La Green". As he arrived, he sat back on to Jacks seat, just to see Stephanie's reaction.

After a few minutes of day dreaming, Stephanie arrived with a small cup of coffee. Yuko turned and looked at her to find that she was smirking, trying to retain herself from laughing. "Here, free on the house. It looks like you could use some" she said welcomingly, and indicated Yuko's PJs.

Yuko looked down and turned bright red. He had forgotten to change into his regular clothes. Since he had been so busy thinking about what had happened back at Yusei's, he hadn't realized when he left. Yuko looked up at Stephanie and blushed with embarrassment. "Thanks, your right. I think I really could use some coffee".

Stephanie nodded happily and left, giggling happily as she went over to serve other costumes, leaving Yuko to drink his hot, bitter coffee (which woke him up a little, knocking some sense into his shaken mind . It took him a while before finishing it since he had a lots going on in his mind, but then all of a sudden an idea popped into his head. He quickly slurped up the rest of his coffee (burning his tongue a little), thanked Stephanie and left, waving at her as he began running towards his new destination (Stephanie waving back while blushing to herself). Yuko knew that there was one person who he could talk to. A person who might be able to explain what the Arcadia is up to and what this duel disk was all about. Yuko need to find Akiza.

Yuko: I hope you all liked this chapter and PWEASE! Reveiw, Follow or add to Favorite! :D

Crow: Noooo! God! I hate this game! I give up!

Yuko: Let me guess, did Jack beat you again?

Crow: (sighs) Yes!

Yuko: Told you his deck was better :P

Crow: What? Oh no, he beat me on "Mario Kart"...again -.-

Jack: Hey Yuko, you wanna play against me?

Yuko: It's a kids game -_-

Jack: You scared you might lose?

Yuko: What!? Hell no! Give me that other controller!

Jack: X3