A Duelist Story  by: Taylor P.copywrite 2003, Des Moines, IA

             I, Taylor Dane Pedersen, blue eyes, 5 9, thirteen years of age, brown-blond hair, and exceptional duelist am fighting the man who calls himself Yugi Moto.  He isnt though.  This guy has blonde hair, and unfortunately huge muscles that look like they belong to a marine, I didnt even second guess him to be Yugi when he asked if I believed him.  My muscles are a caterpillar on steroids, thats it!  But if I duel and beat him hes out of Kaibas tournament and I get his locator card and on his first duel of this tournament too. It was obviously my first duel of the tournament as I had only one locator card and my rarest card was still in my deck.  He agreed to not use fisticuffs if I beat him in a duel so the terms were more than exceptable.

            The hologram projecters came off our duel disks and found nice little resting spots inbetween the crowd who was already surrounding, anticipating one of the first duel here at the tournament to be a good one. 

            Here we go, Ill go first.  I said.  I drew my hand, I held now sword of deep-seated, another one, Darkfire soldier # 1 and a #2, a flute of summoning dragon, and now drew a lord of dragon.  I play Darkfire soldier number 1 in attack mode! 1700/1150.  I placed my swords face down on the field.

            My turn.  He drew with a really pathetic maniacal laugh attempt.  I play Gemini Elf in attack mode, 1900/1000 And I play on the field beside it two face down cards, and, one more face down I suppose.

            Finally my turn I mumbled, one more face down I suppose.  I mocked him underneath my breath. I drew and stared at the card.  Play Magic was its name, I didnt read it and instead just played my flute of summoning dragon face down and played my other Darkfire soldier.  1700/1100. Now I flip these two face down cards to boost my monsters attacks by 500 each.  2300/1100 and 2300/1150.

               I draw He drew and placed this ugly monster on the field. It was Vorse Raider. 1900/1000.  He left it in attack and that made me wonder what his facedown cards could be.  Neither of us attack, are we both afraid, or are we just being courteous of eachothers feelings, well.  Never the less, I activate Malevolent Nuzzler on my Vorse Raider and a Revamp on Gemini Elf. Vorse Raider is at 2600/1000.  Gemini Elf is at 2200/1000 and I can kill off one of your monsters and destroy 300 of your life, and Ill precede to do so right, NOW!  He yelled as he attacked.  My Dark Fire Soldier #1 died and my sword of deep seated went to my decks top as its ability states.  Ill place this face down and there goes my turn.

            I drew and smirked at it, of course it was a sword of deep-seated.  I played it down on my Dark Fire Soldier #2. 2800/1100.  Attack his Gemini Elf Dark Fire Soldier  And it was done.  My life was at 3700 of 4000 and his 3400 of his 4000.  Looks as though Im winning.  I bragged in his face.

            He drew and frowned.  Then looked at me and smiled, probably trying to cover it up and make me think it was worth didly.  What should I do was what was running through hid head I bet.  He played face down and placed a monster in defense mode and switched his Vorse Raider to defense to boot.

            I drew a magic called Stop Trap.  It could be activated on my opponents turn and stop a traps effect and destroy it.  But it had to be on the field to activate it.  Irt also had the ability to let me draw my next three cards instead of stopping a trap.  Attack, powerful Dark Fire!  I yelled as I attacked once again with my devastating blow.  He smiled and activated Mirror Force!  Mirror Force was a trap that would reflect my attack and destroy all my monsters in attack mode, and I only had one monster out!  It died and my opponents turn came.

            He drew and turned his monsters to attack mode.  His defense monster was Destro the mighty.  300/1900.  And to boot I play Unicorn!  500/1000.  Attack,my monsters!  3400 of my life, gone! I had 300 left, uh oh

            I draw.  It was just the perfect card! Or cards.  See, my Play Magic card I drew earlier was a quick play magic I quickly used after my opponent attacked, it allowed my to play another magic card from my hand.  And I played Stop Trap which could also let me draw 3 cards, both my sword of deep-seateds that were destroyed and came back to my deck, and a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.  I play Lord of Dragon in attack mode!  1200/1100.  And both swords of deep-seated,  2200/1100. and also my face down, Flute Of Summoning Dragon.  This Flute lets me play more than just a tune, but also allows me to play up to two dragons from my hand as a special summon.  And I choose my Blue-Eyes White Dragon!   3000/2600.  Blue eyes, attack his Destro and Lord of Dragon, get rid of his Unicorn!  It did 2700 damage from my blue eyes, and 1700 damage from my Lord of Dragon, he lost! 

            He walked up to me and handed me a locator card, his rarest card, Raigeki, and a word of apology for threatening and picking on me before the duel started, cause this wasnt just anyone, this was my brother, Christian Pedersen.  With four more Locator Cards needed, I had to find another duelist.  Thats when I saw this really cute babe

Meeting Mai Valentine Ch:2

            Hi, I started to say to the girl. Im a duelist and I see you have a duel disk.  Would you like to duel?

            She looked down to me and sighed.  If you came to duel me cause I look like a blond babe in distress Ill have you know I already have three locator cards and got 4^th in the Duelist Kingdom Tournament.  She said with a voice that sounded like it was used mostly for complaining.

            Your Mai Valentine, wow Im sorry, I didnt recognize you, you look so much better in person than on the web." I said, attempting a clean, undetectable suckup.  But she didnt by it according to her face all that did was annoy her.  She started another lecture and it bored my to death.

            And if you wanna duel Ill go for one Locater Card.  If you can handle me.  She started to laugh another one of those annoying maniacle laugh that she actually did to simply intimadate me.  I laughed at her, it took awhile until she realized I laughed at, not with.

            Im sorry, but how bout we duel later, how bout I treat you to a malt right now.  I really wanna get to know the best duelists in the world.  She smiled as her stomach growled.  That would be a yes, right?

            Later I coughed up some of my billion-dollar fortune on some malts.  Billions came from my dad, he was a very important man in Microsoft now, having created a new interface.  We walked to a bench and sat down, and slowly slurped our malts down a little.

            So what brings you to this competition, Mai?  She stopped drinking and thought a little and replied with "I wanna take down Kaiba in a duel and definitely when some prize money.  For shopping, and especially for Duel Monsters Cards.  My strategy and deck are to predictable right now, new cards would be good.  Oh, well I came to become a legend like you and Yugi, my name in lights would be a nice change.

            What is your name anyways kid?  Mai asked, not seeing any thing in lights other than question marks.

            Im Taylor Pedersen.  Yes as in Larry Pedersen, multi Billionare.  I want to be the main attraction for once though.  If you would like, after we eat we could go and by some cards, my treat again.

            She smiled as though she just found gold after a gold rush and no one else saw it.  I smiled back and we headed to the card shop while still sipping our malts.

Hi Mr. Moto!  Im back, and with a new friend.  I said to his back, apparently he got new cards and was unpacking them.

            Whos your friend? Mr. Moto wheezed out as he lifted a heavy box.

            Me of course.  The old man froze.  He turned slowly, hoping it wasnt who he thought it was.  It was.

            Hi Mai, nice to see you again, brat.  The latter was whispered and Mai could here it though.  She smiled and grabbed new and old packs alike off the shelves.  I grabbed two packs and bought my two, and more than I can count for Mai.  Thatll be $121.98.  Credit?

            Yea. I murmured as I pulled out my credit card. Jeese, must be a woman thing I thought to myself.

            We sat down on benches inside and she opened pack after pack and was loving every card she got, except for anything small and cute.  I watched her tear pack after pack open and opened my two myself.  In the first I got Maryokutai, 2 zombie dragons, a despell, a remove trap, a red eyes black dragon, and 3 bubonic vermins.  In the second pack I got a baby dragon, a punished eagle, two blue winged crowns, a two headed king rex, a polymerization, a mask of relishment, two blue eyed skeletons, and an aqua madoor.

            What did you get little guy?  Mai asked me, pleased with all her new cards.

            If I told you, it would ruin the surprise effect for our duel.  How about we get our decks ready and well duel tomorrow, ok?  I asked.

            Well, I would love to tomorrow and until then Ill test out my new cards on someone.  See ya later!  Mai said as she was off to find a punk.

            Well well, who are you pibsqueak, ready to lose in a duel?  Little guy, ready to lose?  This was a punk who obviously thought I was a beginner duelist.  I needed a good laugh and a new locator card to match Mai.

            Ill duel you, big briches.  He stared and drew his hand as the hollow projectors landed and readied.  Ill go first.  I drew my blue eyes, red eyes, and a sword of deep-seeted.  Then came the three I really needed, Lord of D, Flute o sumoning dragon, and play magic!  I played Lord of D, 1200/1100, and played play magic face down.

            I draw, and now youre dead meat!  He yelled.  He summoned Celtic guardian,1400/1300, boosted by warriors sword which gave it +300, so it was 1700/1300.  He attacked and there came my plan.  I activated play magic, letting out my Flute of summoning dragon, and my red and blue eyed dragons to kill him off.  Sure, I lost 500 life from that last attack but now on my turn I played out my sword of deep-seated and the one I just drew, I attacked with my dragons, killing off his life!

            I walked over, trying to be nice but only gloated when saying loser.  He gave me a locator card, and a time wizard.

            Im sorry man, I didnt know you were so good.  He said to me. 

            I almost laughed, I gave him $2.50 and told him to get a malt, itll cool down his pathetic urge to find someone who looked weak.  He still had a locator card so no worries, he just needs five more, and me four.  I headed home, or what counted as home as long as I was here.  My hotel room was just cleaned before I got there so I loved it.  So dust free what was this?  A package with my dads name on it.  For me or for me to give to him?  Whichever, it looked like something important should I open it?  I sat it in my lap and stared for a little bit and opened it a little.  It looked like a box of something, as I turned the box I saw a indentation on the lid in the shape of the letters spelling out Duel Monsters.  I realized what it was, or did I really?  I opened the lid and there were a lot of duel monster cards face down.  I picked up the stack and started to turn them over

Mai and Me v.s. Para and Dox Ch:3