Miya's POV

You grabbed your blank duel disk from your suitcase and quickly designed one that reflected your most powerful monster that you could use; Red Rose Dragon. It was black metal with dark red accents with bright red roses on each of the card place holders.

Grabbing your registration card with the name Mikoto Rosa on it , you strapped on the duel disk and headed out to Kaiba Dome.

The crowd outside the dome was unbelievable. You had never seen this many people at a tournament at once, not even at the biggest ones in America. You somehow made your way towards the front of the crowd, just a few rows back from the gate that separated the crowd from the stage where Seto would be in a matter of minutes.

Once there, you saw the seats where the VIP were sitting. Sure enough; Joey, Yugi and Mai Valentine were all there. You were stunned to see the other two people. It was Chris and some guy you didn't recognize entirely but you knew his features. That other duelist was Ryan in his alternate personality. Hopefully neither of them would recognize you.

There should have been another duelist in the box besides Seto. There had been 8 VIPs and only 5 of them were in the box. For the life of you, you could not remember who the other duelist was. After all, you had not helped do those invitations.

You cringed when the screams of the fan girls echoed through the crowd. Seto had just come out on the stage. You couldn't help but stare; he looked hot. He scanned the crowd before he began his well prepared speech. For a moment, his eyes locked with yours and you quickly turned away; acting like some shy fan girl.

The screams subsided as his voice rang through the area. As you expected, he gave a quick run down of the tournament rules and how to get into the finals. Each duelist had to beat 15 other duelists. You did the math in your head, and something didn't add up right. That would leave about 100 duelists in tournament limbo.

"In this tournament, there are 200 contestants, and at random Player Killers will be challenging you to a duel. If you loose you are automatically removed from the tournament.

-So that's how he's going to get rid of the extra 80 duelists. Good idea Seto.- you said to yourself as your eyes followed him as he walked off the stage and got into his helicopter.

"The tournament begins in 1 hour!"

As the crowd began to clear out a bit, you made your way over toward the VIP box and waited for Joey to start walking out. As he passed by you, you tripped yourself and bumped into him.

"Oh I'm so sorry."

"No, it's okay. Are you okay?"

You nodded and smiled. As you backed away, you dropped your necklace into his jacket's side pocket. Hopefully that would give him a hint.

"Oh sir. Don't loose whatever's hanging out of your jacket."

When he turned to look down at his pockets, you slipped through the crowd and out of site, off to find your first duel.

Joey's POV

The girl you had run into was probably one of those gothic types. Pale as could be, black hair and all dark clothing. Even her duel disk was red and black.

"Oh sir. Don't loose whatever's hanging out of your jacket."

You quickly turned to look down at your pockets, and hanging out of one of them was a brown leather strap.

"Oh than…Where'd she go?" you scanned the crowd quickly with no sign of her. You took the strap out of your pocket. One the other end was a card shaped locket, kinda like Kaiba's. When you opened it, you saw the photo of Miya and Kaiba.

"Miya?"

"Something wrong Joey?"

"Oh no Yugi. Just, off in my own world." you said quickly shoving the locket back into your pocket.

Miya's POV

Not too long after the duels were allowed to begin, plenty of people were challenging you to a duel. The first you beat in a matter of 5 turns. The second was bit longer since the girl used Fairies also.

"You! I challenge you to a duel!"

The man stepped out of an alley wearing all blue. You saw the faint KC logo on his duel disk; he was a player killer.

"I accept your challenge."

Player Killer:4000 Miya:4000

"I'll start this duel girlie. I play a monster in defense mode and place a card face down."

This was the typical move for someone who hadn't draw very good cards. You drew a card. It was just the card you needed, and on the first draw too.

"I summon Asura Priest (1700/1200) in attack mode!" The field glowed blue as your six armed, fairy-spirit appeared in a shimmery light. "I play Mystical Space Typhoon and destroy your face down card! Now my Asura Priest, attack his defense monster! Electric Barrage!"

"Thank you girlie. You played right into my trap. I can now remove my Giant Flea from the graveyard in order to summon my Aztekipede, The Worm Warrior (1900/400)!"

You took a step back at a giant, not to mention hideous centipede looking monster tunneled up through the ground.

"Aztekipede, attack her Asura Priest!"

Miya:3800 PK:4000

"Since my monster inflicted battle damage, you loose the top card off your deck. I end."

You discarded your top card, then drew. It was your Arcana Force One, a decent card to have drawn this early in the duel, despite it's low attack points.

"I summon Arcana Force One: The Magician (1100/1100) in attack mode."

"Hah! You really think you can defeat my Aztekipede with that puny thing?"

"Since I have successfully summoned this monster, I activate it's special effect. I flip a coin. If it lands on heads, whenever a spell card is activated my Arcana doubles in strength. If it lands on tails, when a spell card is activated, you gain 500 life points."

You took a coin out of your pocket and flipped it into the center of the field. It spun on its side for a matter of seconds, then landed on heads.

"Yes! I now activate the spell card Holy Sanctuary! Thanks to this card, not only does my Arcana double in strength, you're Aztekipede looses 500 attack points." (Arcana;2200: Aztekipede:1400)

"No! My Aztekipede!"

"Arcana attack his Aztekipede!"

PK:3200

"Gah! You will pay! Prepare to loose!"

You rolled your eyes, player killers were always so dramatic and it made you wanna gag.

"I play Cost Down! This lowers my monsters' levels by two! Now I summon my Empress Mantis (2200/1400)! She will devour your puny Arcana! Attack!!"

As the Empress Mantis moved in to attack, your Arcana counterattacked.

"Huh!? What the hell?"

"Have you forgotten already? Whenever you activate a spell card, my Arcana's attack points double, making it equal to your Mantis in power."

"I end with a card face down."

Joey's POV

Ever since you had run into her, you'd been keeping an eye open for Miya. So far, you were doing well, you'd won three duels already. Too bad most of them were fairly easy, except for the guy from Australia. He had you down to 300 life points before you drew your Red Eyes and beat him into the dirt.

"So Yugi, do you think we'll make it to the finals. Most of these duelists are champs from around the world."

"I'm sure we will Joey. We just have to remember to keep our faith in the heart of the cards."

You nodded as the gang passed an ally way. You stopped and looked down it. Miya was on the other side dueling.

"Everything alright Joey?"

"Yeah, just watching that duel down there. Feels pretty intense."

"Lets go watch! I need a break from dueling."

Yugi ran down the ally way, you close behind. Tea and Tristan brought up the rear after a few seconds. Currently Miya had three monsters on the field, and her opponent had one big ugly one.

"Wow Yugi, what is that thing?"

"That's an Earthbound Immortal Uru. it's a very powerful insect monster."

"3000 attack points? I would say so."

"You better get ready to feel the wrath of my Uru after you next turn. You're swords of revealing light will wear off then your monsters will have nothing left to protect themselves."

"Hah, that's what you think. I sacrifice my Arcana Magician, Arcana Empress, and Arcana Emperor to summon my ultimate fairy creature. Come forth my Arcana Force Ex: The Dark Ruler! (4000/4000)"

Miya's POV

Miya:1700 PK:2400

The entire area went dark and red lightning began to flash around the field. Out of the sky, descended your dragon looking fairy.

"Now for my Dark Rulers special effect. Again I flip a coin. Heads; it can attack twice. Tails; it's destroyed."

You held the coin tightly. You had to win this duel, there was no way you were getting kicked out before the Semi-Finals.

"No!!"

The killer panicked scream told you that your coin had landed on heads and your beast was poised to strike.

"Dark Ruler, attack his Uru! Then attack his life points directly!"

PK:0000 Miya:1700

Without another word, the Player killer ran off into the darkened ally way behind him. Not only were they dramatic during the duel, when they lost they cried like little babies.

"Wow, that was an awesome card!"

You jumped and turned around. Joey, Yugi and the others were standing less than 5 feet behind you.

"Heh, thank you. Oh, you're the guy I ran into this morning. I am really sorry about that."

"Nah it's fine really. I'm normally the klutz, so I'm use to it."

You sighed silently since it seemed like no one but Joey knew who you were.

"So who was the creepy looking guy?"

"He was one of the player killers. At least that's one less to deal with huh?"

"Cool! We've yet to have to duel one. That's the first one I think."

"Really? That's awesome! I was probably the first one to beat one."

"Why do you say that?" you heard Tea ask.

"I got boosted up two wins. It says I've got 4 but I've only dueled three people."

Joey grabbed your arm and looked at the digital win counter.

"Huh, odd. But that's cool though."

Yugi stepped toward you and held out his hand. "I'm Yugi Moto, what's your name?"

"Mikoto Rosa."

"I'm Joey Wheeler."

"Tea Gardner."

"Tristan!"

"Nice to meet all of you. Well, I guess I'll catch ya later!"

"Wait, you're traveling alone?"

You nodded and smiled.

"Why don't you hang out with us. It's much more fun in a group."

You couldn't say no to Yugi. He was just too adorable. You laughed a bit then nodded.

"Sure, I'd love to."

8 PM Seto's POV

You decided to go back to the manor for a while to check on the boys and make sure they were staying out of trouble. On the way back, you began looking over the results from the first day of dueling. You were already down to 30 duelists, and only had 4 play killers left. This was defiantly a good start. Your player killers were some of the toughest duelists you could have found.

"Veronica, show the top 3 duelists from today's duels. Exclude myself."

3 sets of profiles popped up onto your screen. As you expected, Yugi was one of them, Wheeler the other. The third profile was some 18 year old girl from England. Her dueling statistics were off the charts. She had been the first one to defeat a player killer.

Seeing her photo instead of Miya's made you realize how much you missed her already. You looked over at the clock, it would be another 15 hours before she could call you. The lonely feeling only got deeper when your limo pulled up in front of the manor, and Miya's car was sitting in the garage.

Both boys came running out the front door and about tackled you as you got out.

"Hey Seto, how'd the tournament go today?"

"Did you kick some newbie ass?"

"Are you gonna be in the finals? Who else?"

"Will you two calm down? What ungodly amount of sugar has got you this hyper?" you said raising an eyebrow.

Rene came out and urged them back inside.

"I'm sorry about them Mr. Kaiba. I was cleaning, and they got into the pantry and got into all the junk food."

"It's fine Rene. Miya has it there for a reason. It'll keep them entertained tonight while I'm gone. And soon enough, they'll crash hard. Just make sure they're up in time for the teacher tomorrow."

"Yes sir. Can I get you anything? I just made supper, well breakfast."

"Breakfast?"

"Yes the boys wanted dinner Suro style. So I made pancakes."

You smiled at the thought. You remembered the first time Miya cooked at the manor. She had made breakfast for dinner, and now Mokuba was addicted to the idea.

"Sure, I'll be up in my office."

"Oh Mr. Kaiba…Ms. Miya left something for you in her bedroom."

Rene then quickly turned and went back into the manor. You shut the limo's door and followed her in. You could hear the boys causing ruckus in the kitchen down the hall as you headed up the stairs. You passed by your office and went straight to Miya's room. Her door was ajar, but you closed it behind you. As always her room was perfectly clean, except for the pile of clothes in the corner in her bathroom. You weren't sure what Rene was talking about until a white envelope caught your eye. It was sitting on her bed, leaning against her pillow.

You carefully opened it and pulled out the letter inside.

Seto-

Hey, I figured you'd need a break after this tournament. I hope you don't mind but I've planned a little vacation for you, me and the boys after finals are over. Not telling you where we're going of course! I'll be packing everyone's stuff to make sure no one knows. Good luck and kick some duelist ass!

Love you

Miya

You chuckled and rolled your eyes. Miya was defiantly one of a kind.

Miya's POV

Since you were having a blast with the group, you had decided to go eat with them. To keep from looking too much like 'Miya', you ordered something you had never ordered before; Vegetarian food.

"So Mikoto, where are you here from?"

"I'm England. I live on the outskirts of London. Very damp place." you said taking a bite of your veggie burger. Although you thought it was going to taste horrible, you found it rather enjoyable.

"So you flew in just for a tournament? Wow." Tea said eying you over her soda glass.

"Yeah, a lot of people have. Tournaments held by Kaiba Corp are always competitive. If you had a champ title from one, it's better than most other tournaments."

"Really? Well Yugi must be in really high standings."

"I wouldn't doubt it. He's probably the highest ranked duelist in the tournament. Probably even higher than Miya Suro."

"You know Miya?"

"Yeah sorta. I've been in a couple of other tournaments with her. She's a decent duelist."

"Decent? Please! She's amazing." you heard Yugi nearly shout across the table.

Joey and you exchanged glances. You weren't exactly lying. The person you were portraying was a girl often used by the other members in Lex's company, and they had dueled with you on many occasions.

"So, where are you staying tonight?"

"Oh, I've got a hotel room about a block from Kaiba Dome."

"Cool, so can we meet you at Kaiba Dome in the morning?"

"Sure thing Joey."

You got up from the diner's table after you had finished eating and went to pay your bill. You figured you should start heading back to the hotel since it was beginning to get dark.

"I'll see you guys in the morning! Night!" you called as you waved and began walking out the diner door.

"Hey Mikoto, wait up!"

You turned to see Joey running after you.

"Can I walk you back to your hotel? You know I'm paranoid about you walking places after dark."

"Sure Joey. And hey thanks for not giving me away."

"No prob Mikoto. What are friends for right?"

"Actually, normally a friend would be talking me out of doing something crazy like this."

"Well, we're not in a 'normal' situation, besides. We're not normal friends, we're friends that are stalked by drama in every single tournament."

"Don't cha love the excitement?" you said sarcastically.

"Yeah, I live for it." Joey said copying your tone.

Well here we are folks! Chapter 50! As a sort of celebration….I'll be accepting any ideas as usual, but this time…the author of the idea will have a character named after them and will have a role in the story. Who knows, they might even become a consistent character J. Thanks so much for all your support and sticking with Miya through her journey so far! And thanks to all of you who post reviews, they are very much appreciated and help me to write quicker! I hope you enjoy the new installments to come. Happy Holidays! ~Fairy Dragon J