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Duelist Soul. Other original characters are property of their respective
owners.
~ Duelist Kingdom II: Eternal Duelist Soul ~
Yugi Moto sat on his bed, looking out the window. A lot had happened in a year. He had saved his grandfather, Seto Kaiba, Mokuba, and thwarted Pegasus. Yami Bakura seemed to just disappear. School had started again. It was a new year.
Yugi sighed, standing up, "It's all so repetitive. Every day, go to school, do work, duel at lunch, come home, do homework, go to sleep. Then repeat. . ."
"Yugi!" Solomon Moto shouted up the stairs to Yugi's bedroom.
"What is it, Grandpa?" Yugi asked, emerging from his room and entering the games shop.
Solomon held up pieces of paper, "The new Duel Monsters rules. They've been updated. Industrial Illusions is distributing it as we speak!"
Yugi took the papers and flipped through them, "Hmm, tribute summons? Level five or higher? Level seven or higher requires two. . .Hey! My Dark Magician takes two tributes to play!"
"That's right, Yugi," Solomon explained, "It'll take more to win a duel now more than ever! You can't rely on your powerful cards as much as you could!"
Yugi grinned, "This must really make Kaiba mad!"
Solomon smiled back, "I'll bet it does!"
"Well, Grandpa," Yugi began, "if I'm going to need better base monsters in my deck, can I get some booster packs?"
"Sure, Yugi," Solomon removed four booster packs from their place behind the counter and handed them to Yugi.
"Well, Gramps, I better get to school!" Yugi waved as he opened the door.
"But, Yugi! It's Saturday!" Solomon called after him.
"Oh, in that case," Yugi smiled, "I'll be at Joey's house. What time do I need to be home for supper?"
"5:00, see you then!" Solomon waved as his grandson closed the door, dashing down the street to meet his friend Joey Wheeler.
Yugi stopped running after he reached the corner. While crossing the street, he decided to open his booster packs. Tearing the first one open, he removed nine cards. He read carefully as he spread them out to look at their text.
"Hmm," Yugi muttered, "level four, that's no tribute. 1650 attack points. That'll make my deck."
Yugi pocketed the Whiptail Crow and knocked on Joey's front door. The door swung open, and Yugi took a small step back.
"Serenity?" he asked cautiously.
"Hi, Yugi!" the girl greeted, taking him inside, "I'm visiting Joey, he told me to expect you!"
"How did the operation go?" Yugi asked.
"Fine, I fell perfect!" Serenity chirped.
Joey smiled as he saw Yugi from the kitchen. Grabbing a sandwich, he walked out to see his best friend.
"Hey, Yug," Joey grinned, "Watcha got there?"
Yugi held up his booster packs, "Duel Monsters cards. I got a few booster packs from Gramps after I found out about the new rules from Industrial Illusions."
"New rules? You gotta tell me about these things, Yugi!" Joey said attentively.
"Well," Yugi began, "there're tribute summons now, for one thing. . ."
~
Yugi and Joey sat at a table, playing Duel Monsters with the new rules. Serenity sat on a couch perpendicular to them, watching.
"Okay, Yugi," Joey grinned broadly, "I tribute my Armored Lizard for my wonderful Garoozis! Garoozis, attack Neo the Magic Swordsman!"
"Not enough, Joey."
"Waddya mean, not enough? My Garoozis have 100 attack points more than Neo the Magic Swordsman!"
"But I activate my quick-play Magic card called "Rush Recklessly", raising my Neo the Magic Swordsman up to 2400 attack points for this turn. Your Garoozis is destroyed and you lose 600 life points!"
"So I have 1400 left?"
"No, remember? We now have 8000 life points. You have 7400 left."
"Cool! You're going down, Yugi!"
"Joey?"
"Yeah, Yug?"
"I start out with 8000, also."
Joey muttered under his breath as Serenity giggled. Yugi threw down a Man- eating Treasure Chest and one card face-down. He then had them both attack Joey's life points directly.
"Man, Yugi! How'd you do that?" Joey murmured.
"Well, you forgot to play a couple monsters face-down to defend your life points."
Serenity smiled, looking at Joey's expression. Joey drew violently, tearing the card from his deck.
"Alright, Yugi," Joey grinned, "Prepare yourself!"
Joey flipped over his Ultimate Offering card along with Monster Reborn, bringing back Garoozis and playing Giant Soldier of Stone, tributing both of them to bring out his Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
"Red-Eyes, attack Neo the Magic Swordsman!"
"I activate Wobaku."
"Dang it!" Joey hissed, "Wait, what's that do again?"
"It blocks Red-Eye's attack."
"Right."
Yugi drew, then smiled. He tributed his Chest and Neo for the Dark Magician. He also used Fissure to destroy Red-Eyes. He equipped his Dark Magician with a Book of Secret Arts, powering it up to 2800 attack points, attacking Joey's life points directly.
Joey drew. He sighed, realizing he had no more monsters in his hand. He ended his turn.
"I'm afraid that's game, Joey," Yugi laughed.
"Better luck next time, brother," Serenity smiled.
She left the room, leaving Yugi and Joey to talk. She walked briskly outside, checking the mail. Lifting a rather heaving package, she returned to the house.
"Joey!" she called, "Mail for you!"
Joey and Yugi ran into the room. Joey, rubbing his hands together joyfully, took the package and ripped it open. He sat, dumbfounded, staring at the contents.
"Joey, it's. . ." Yugi breathed.
"A dueling glove, and two star-chips."
"And a letter," Serenity smiled at them, not noticing that they were both in shock.
"But," Yugi thought out loud, "Pegasus?"
Joey took the letter, tearing it open.
"Dear Master Wheeler," Joey read aloud, "Heheheh, it called me Master. . ."
"Um, Joey?" Yugi asked.
"Right, the rest of the letter!" Joey smiled, "We are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to Duelist Kingdom Two. It is being held on the same island as the original Duelist Kingdom, won by one Yugi Moto. As a semi-finalist, you are allowed to invite one guest to come with you to Duelist Kingdom and watch as you duel your way to glory. Sincerely, Richard Pegasus."
"Richard? His first name is Maxmillion," Yugi muttered.
"Oh, well, maybe he got a legal name change or somethin'," Joey said nonchalantly, "anyway, Yugi, you're my best bud, you want to come with me to Duelist Kingdom."
"Um, Joey?" Serenity started, "Yugi was the winner of the previous Duelist Kingdom. I think he, if anyone, would receive such a letter."
". . .right. . ."
"So in which case he doesn't need to be invited."
". . .right. . ."
"So you can choose someone else."
". . .right. . ."
"Like maybe a certain sister who has been dying to get out of the house."
"Speaking of sisters, do you want to come with me to Duelist Kingdom, Serenity?"
"I'd love to!" Serenity beamed.
~
"As a semi-finalist in the previous Duelist Kingdom, blah, blah."
She tossed the letter to the side, fitting the dueling glove snugly on her hand. Throwing on her jacket she ran from her apartment to the streets of Domino City.
"There's only one person I would want to bring, but he's already going. Yugi will be invited, too. Who's left? Maybe Tea. . ." Mai muttered to herself as she began to hunt down Tea.
~
"Welcome to Duelist Kingdom. You are invited to come and enjoy a tournament being held by Castle Pegasus. After the festivities of last year, all the best duelists will be there. Please come and have fun," Tristan read, "What's the worst that could happen?"
He reached for his rock and dragon deck, carefully tying an elastic band around it and putting it in a pocket of his brown trench coat. Leaving a note on the door for his parents, who would be home later that day, he left to find his friends.
~
"Duelist Kingdom?" he murmured, fingering his fairy-based deck, "Richard Pegasus?"
He leaned back in his chair. He drew a card from his deck, staring at it.
"Wingweaver," he whispered, staring at the card.
Author's Note: Wingweaver is a Fairy-type monster with 2750 attack points. I think it's PSV. I have it, I can find the defense sometime.
~
Yugi had to admit he felt bad for inviting his Grandpa to come. He knew Mai was taking Tea, Tristan dueled, so he was coming, Joey was bringing Serenity. Bakura would be all alone at Domino City. Bakura would be quite lonely. He tried to justify himself by thinking that Bakura was used to it, but that merely made him feel sorry for Bakura even more.
~~~ Three days later ~~~
Yugi Moto and his friends all stood on the docks, awaiting the boat to Duelist Kingdom. He looked around. There were a few unfamiliar faces. Weevil wasn't around anymore. He dropped out of Duel Monsters after the first Duelist Kingdom. Rex Raptor still played, but his skills had diminished. A new kid stood at the end of the dock, staring out at the sea.
"Hey, Yug," Joey whispered, "who's that kid?"
"I don't know."
Yugi and Joey walked away from the rest (Gramps, Mai, Serenity, Tea, and Tristan) to talk to the kid. He looked up at them. He had quite long brown hair, which appeared to be hard to control. His eyes were blue. He was shorter than Joey, but taller than Yugi, which didn't say much about his height.
"Hi," Yugi greeted, Joey just waved.
"Hi."
"Are you going to Duelist Kingdom?"
"Yes, are you?"
"Yeah."
"You're Yugi Moto, aren't you? And Joey Wheeler."
"Yeah, that's right. Who're you?"
"My name's Stephen Renaud. My older brother is an eliminator in Duelist Kingdom. I came to see if I could defeat my brother and make it to face Pegasus."
Joey nodded, "We just came for kicks. I mean, we were in the first Duelist Kingdom, so we thought we would come to bring back memories."
Stephen looked at him. Joey smiled.
"Joey, get back here!" Mai yelled.
Joey slunk off. Yugi shrugged and followed him.
"Why'd you take me away from that conversation? I was scouting out the opposition!" Joey yelled at Mai.
Mai sighed in response, "I just wanted you to say hi to Bakura, he's coming to Duelist Kingdom."
"But you can only invite one person to come with you," Joey sneered.
"Joey," Mai explained, "Bakura duels now. He has a Fairy-type deck."
Joey opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. Yugi sighed, relieved that Bakura would be coming with them. They all swung around when they heard the noises of a boat coming.
"Duelist Kingdom, here we come!" Joey yelled, throwing a fist into the air.
Stephen looked down at his deck, eyes burning with determination. He sifted through the cards, stopping on his favorite, Solemn Wishes. He sighed, hoping it would be enough.
"Attention, Duelists!" Kimu shouted, "You will now board the boat for Duelist Kingdom. Once you run out of star-chips, you will become spectators. Form a single-file line before the docks!"
~
Author's Note: And cue the Yu-Gi-Oh theme-song. I'll prepare the voice that says: "Last time on Yu-Gi-Oh". Please R&R!
~ Duelist Kingdom II: Eternal Duelist Soul ~
Yugi Moto sat on his bed, looking out the window. A lot had happened in a year. He had saved his grandfather, Seto Kaiba, Mokuba, and thwarted Pegasus. Yami Bakura seemed to just disappear. School had started again. It was a new year.
Yugi sighed, standing up, "It's all so repetitive. Every day, go to school, do work, duel at lunch, come home, do homework, go to sleep. Then repeat. . ."
"Yugi!" Solomon Moto shouted up the stairs to Yugi's bedroom.
"What is it, Grandpa?" Yugi asked, emerging from his room and entering the games shop.
Solomon held up pieces of paper, "The new Duel Monsters rules. They've been updated. Industrial Illusions is distributing it as we speak!"
Yugi took the papers and flipped through them, "Hmm, tribute summons? Level five or higher? Level seven or higher requires two. . .Hey! My Dark Magician takes two tributes to play!"
"That's right, Yugi," Solomon explained, "It'll take more to win a duel now more than ever! You can't rely on your powerful cards as much as you could!"
Yugi grinned, "This must really make Kaiba mad!"
Solomon smiled back, "I'll bet it does!"
"Well, Grandpa," Yugi began, "if I'm going to need better base monsters in my deck, can I get some booster packs?"
"Sure, Yugi," Solomon removed four booster packs from their place behind the counter and handed them to Yugi.
"Well, Gramps, I better get to school!" Yugi waved as he opened the door.
"But, Yugi! It's Saturday!" Solomon called after him.
"Oh, in that case," Yugi smiled, "I'll be at Joey's house. What time do I need to be home for supper?"
"5:00, see you then!" Solomon waved as his grandson closed the door, dashing down the street to meet his friend Joey Wheeler.
Yugi stopped running after he reached the corner. While crossing the street, he decided to open his booster packs. Tearing the first one open, he removed nine cards. He read carefully as he spread them out to look at their text.
"Hmm," Yugi muttered, "level four, that's no tribute. 1650 attack points. That'll make my deck."
Yugi pocketed the Whiptail Crow and knocked on Joey's front door. The door swung open, and Yugi took a small step back.
"Serenity?" he asked cautiously.
"Hi, Yugi!" the girl greeted, taking him inside, "I'm visiting Joey, he told me to expect you!"
"How did the operation go?" Yugi asked.
"Fine, I fell perfect!" Serenity chirped.
Joey smiled as he saw Yugi from the kitchen. Grabbing a sandwich, he walked out to see his best friend.
"Hey, Yug," Joey grinned, "Watcha got there?"
Yugi held up his booster packs, "Duel Monsters cards. I got a few booster packs from Gramps after I found out about the new rules from Industrial Illusions."
"New rules? You gotta tell me about these things, Yugi!" Joey said attentively.
"Well," Yugi began, "there're tribute summons now, for one thing. . ."
~
Yugi and Joey sat at a table, playing Duel Monsters with the new rules. Serenity sat on a couch perpendicular to them, watching.
"Okay, Yugi," Joey grinned broadly, "I tribute my Armored Lizard for my wonderful Garoozis! Garoozis, attack Neo the Magic Swordsman!"
"Not enough, Joey."
"Waddya mean, not enough? My Garoozis have 100 attack points more than Neo the Magic Swordsman!"
"But I activate my quick-play Magic card called "Rush Recklessly", raising my Neo the Magic Swordsman up to 2400 attack points for this turn. Your Garoozis is destroyed and you lose 600 life points!"
"So I have 1400 left?"
"No, remember? We now have 8000 life points. You have 7400 left."
"Cool! You're going down, Yugi!"
"Joey?"
"Yeah, Yug?"
"I start out with 8000, also."
Joey muttered under his breath as Serenity giggled. Yugi threw down a Man- eating Treasure Chest and one card face-down. He then had them both attack Joey's life points directly.
"Man, Yugi! How'd you do that?" Joey murmured.
"Well, you forgot to play a couple monsters face-down to defend your life points."
Serenity smiled, looking at Joey's expression. Joey drew violently, tearing the card from his deck.
"Alright, Yugi," Joey grinned, "Prepare yourself!"
Joey flipped over his Ultimate Offering card along with Monster Reborn, bringing back Garoozis and playing Giant Soldier of Stone, tributing both of them to bring out his Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
"Red-Eyes, attack Neo the Magic Swordsman!"
"I activate Wobaku."
"Dang it!" Joey hissed, "Wait, what's that do again?"
"It blocks Red-Eye's attack."
"Right."
Yugi drew, then smiled. He tributed his Chest and Neo for the Dark Magician. He also used Fissure to destroy Red-Eyes. He equipped his Dark Magician with a Book of Secret Arts, powering it up to 2800 attack points, attacking Joey's life points directly.
Joey drew. He sighed, realizing he had no more monsters in his hand. He ended his turn.
"I'm afraid that's game, Joey," Yugi laughed.
"Better luck next time, brother," Serenity smiled.
She left the room, leaving Yugi and Joey to talk. She walked briskly outside, checking the mail. Lifting a rather heaving package, she returned to the house.
"Joey!" she called, "Mail for you!"
Joey and Yugi ran into the room. Joey, rubbing his hands together joyfully, took the package and ripped it open. He sat, dumbfounded, staring at the contents.
"Joey, it's. . ." Yugi breathed.
"A dueling glove, and two star-chips."
"And a letter," Serenity smiled at them, not noticing that they were both in shock.
"But," Yugi thought out loud, "Pegasus?"
Joey took the letter, tearing it open.
"Dear Master Wheeler," Joey read aloud, "Heheheh, it called me Master. . ."
"Um, Joey?" Yugi asked.
"Right, the rest of the letter!" Joey smiled, "We are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to Duelist Kingdom Two. It is being held on the same island as the original Duelist Kingdom, won by one Yugi Moto. As a semi-finalist, you are allowed to invite one guest to come with you to Duelist Kingdom and watch as you duel your way to glory. Sincerely, Richard Pegasus."
"Richard? His first name is Maxmillion," Yugi muttered.
"Oh, well, maybe he got a legal name change or somethin'," Joey said nonchalantly, "anyway, Yugi, you're my best bud, you want to come with me to Duelist Kingdom."
"Um, Joey?" Serenity started, "Yugi was the winner of the previous Duelist Kingdom. I think he, if anyone, would receive such a letter."
". . .right. . ."
"So in which case he doesn't need to be invited."
". . .right. . ."
"So you can choose someone else."
". . .right. . ."
"Like maybe a certain sister who has been dying to get out of the house."
"Speaking of sisters, do you want to come with me to Duelist Kingdom, Serenity?"
"I'd love to!" Serenity beamed.
~
"As a semi-finalist in the previous Duelist Kingdom, blah, blah."
She tossed the letter to the side, fitting the dueling glove snugly on her hand. Throwing on her jacket she ran from her apartment to the streets of Domino City.
"There's only one person I would want to bring, but he's already going. Yugi will be invited, too. Who's left? Maybe Tea. . ." Mai muttered to herself as she began to hunt down Tea.
~
"Welcome to Duelist Kingdom. You are invited to come and enjoy a tournament being held by Castle Pegasus. After the festivities of last year, all the best duelists will be there. Please come and have fun," Tristan read, "What's the worst that could happen?"
He reached for his rock and dragon deck, carefully tying an elastic band around it and putting it in a pocket of his brown trench coat. Leaving a note on the door for his parents, who would be home later that day, he left to find his friends.
~
"Duelist Kingdom?" he murmured, fingering his fairy-based deck, "Richard Pegasus?"
He leaned back in his chair. He drew a card from his deck, staring at it.
"Wingweaver," he whispered, staring at the card.
Author's Note: Wingweaver is a Fairy-type monster with 2750 attack points. I think it's PSV. I have it, I can find the defense sometime.
~
Yugi had to admit he felt bad for inviting his Grandpa to come. He knew Mai was taking Tea, Tristan dueled, so he was coming, Joey was bringing Serenity. Bakura would be all alone at Domino City. Bakura would be quite lonely. He tried to justify himself by thinking that Bakura was used to it, but that merely made him feel sorry for Bakura even more.
~~~ Three days later ~~~
Yugi Moto and his friends all stood on the docks, awaiting the boat to Duelist Kingdom. He looked around. There were a few unfamiliar faces. Weevil wasn't around anymore. He dropped out of Duel Monsters after the first Duelist Kingdom. Rex Raptor still played, but his skills had diminished. A new kid stood at the end of the dock, staring out at the sea.
"Hey, Yug," Joey whispered, "who's that kid?"
"I don't know."
Yugi and Joey walked away from the rest (Gramps, Mai, Serenity, Tea, and Tristan) to talk to the kid. He looked up at them. He had quite long brown hair, which appeared to be hard to control. His eyes were blue. He was shorter than Joey, but taller than Yugi, which didn't say much about his height.
"Hi," Yugi greeted, Joey just waved.
"Hi."
"Are you going to Duelist Kingdom?"
"Yes, are you?"
"Yeah."
"You're Yugi Moto, aren't you? And Joey Wheeler."
"Yeah, that's right. Who're you?"
"My name's Stephen Renaud. My older brother is an eliminator in Duelist Kingdom. I came to see if I could defeat my brother and make it to face Pegasus."
Joey nodded, "We just came for kicks. I mean, we were in the first Duelist Kingdom, so we thought we would come to bring back memories."
Stephen looked at him. Joey smiled.
"Joey, get back here!" Mai yelled.
Joey slunk off. Yugi shrugged and followed him.
"Why'd you take me away from that conversation? I was scouting out the opposition!" Joey yelled at Mai.
Mai sighed in response, "I just wanted you to say hi to Bakura, he's coming to Duelist Kingdom."
"But you can only invite one person to come with you," Joey sneered.
"Joey," Mai explained, "Bakura duels now. He has a Fairy-type deck."
Joey opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. Yugi sighed, relieved that Bakura would be coming with them. They all swung around when they heard the noises of a boat coming.
"Duelist Kingdom, here we come!" Joey yelled, throwing a fist into the air.
Stephen looked down at his deck, eyes burning with determination. He sifted through the cards, stopping on his favorite, Solemn Wishes. He sighed, hoping it would be enough.
"Attention, Duelists!" Kimu shouted, "You will now board the boat for Duelist Kingdom. Once you run out of star-chips, you will become spectators. Form a single-file line before the docks!"
~
Author's Note: And cue the Yu-Gi-Oh theme-song. I'll prepare the voice that says: "Last time on Yu-Gi-Oh". Please R&R!