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[BANZAI!!!!]

"Yeah, sure." Kane said following Jane toward the hallway. "I'll meet you back at the room, Kane, I'm going to go look into someting." Astrum called over as he flew off. Kane's mark throbbed painfully, and he quickly squeezed the spot with his left hand in an attempt to dull the sensation. "This thing's back? Why now of all times. After all, I'm not in danger." Kane wondered as he walked with Jane out of the crowd.

[a coffee]

Nick wanders out fast, and spots Madeline a ways down as people started pouring out of the entrances to the stadium. He spits a vulgarity as he starts to run down the hallways to her. He goes to shout her name but remembers that their identities must be shielded. He instead says nothing and pushes through people faster. Why could everyone else use their real names in life but the people he sees constantly? It made him so jealous. He eventually catches up to her, slipping his prized Levia Dragon Daedelus in her hand. He looks at her as he walks by her, mouthing "Keep it." as he walks by, pulling up his hood over his hair and walking away into the crowds of people.

[Serenade]

Jane continues walking until they are all alone, she turns around and smiles, "I had my father help me with the creation of this card for you. It's one-of-a-kind creature. It will replace your Stardust Dragon until you get it back. I felt really bad that it got taken, so I spent all last night sleepless making it for you." She smiles innocently as she opens the box, revealing Boro, The Gale Dragon. She gently ushers the box towards him. She felt the LIGHT symbol burn into her skin as she got closer to him. Ow... What is with this symbol... Is it possible that he has something to do with who I am?

[BANZAI!!!!]

Kane blushed as he looked the box, awestruck by beautifully crafted card inside. "You would do this? For me?" He asked in wonder. "I... I... don't know what to say, really." He said, taking the box from her as he read the card text. "It looks amazing, and its powerful too. Thanks Jane." Kane said as his words returned to him. He was still blushing, and at that moment his elemental mark began to glow an almost white shade of pine green, as if it was reacting to the monster card. Ignoring the pain this caused, he took the card out of the box and placed it in his extra deck. Once Boro was safely in the deck box, he placed his left hand over his right, again trying to stop the burning pain.

[evilfusion]

Madeline blinked as Nick thrust a card into her hand and communicated for her to keep it. She blinked several times, but didn't argue, looking at the card. Levia Dragon- Daedalus? she thought to herself before a smirk tugged at her lips. Interesting, she thought, placing the card into the deckbox at her hip and continuing her walking, her violet eyes scanning the people she passed, few of which gave her a second look, except for a number of the males.

[Serenade]

Jane started to blush as a reaction to... well, his blushing. She was flattered that someone would be so appreciative of the gift she had given. Not to mention all of the wonderful comments, she looked down at her hand through the pain to notice a greenish tint to her white mark, "Oh.. it was no problem really. I just couldn't let someone be put at such a bad position..." She comes closer into him when she notices Kane holding his right hand, and looks at him with concern, "Are you hurt?" she pulls his hand off to see the mark, so similar to hers, except for WIND. She puts it closer and it starts to hurt immensely at first, then calm down...

 

"Kane... Do you think this means something? I feel like we need to stay together. Like there's a reason we have these... Look, they're almost the same color now..." she looks down to her very own hand, comparing them. Hers were so small and fragile, his so thick and strong, yet this mark made them the same...

[BANZAI!!!!]

Kane looked down at their hands as the pain in his faded away. His hand was still glowing with the WIND symbol, and if anything it seemed to have gotten brighter. "Yeah. I don't think its a coincidence that you and I are both here, and both of us have these marks. Still... I don't like this thing." He said pointing to his WIND mark. "It hurts a lot, and I'm afraid it will burn into my hand during a duel." He looked at Jane, and a thought hit him. "Wait a minute. You didn't have that mark when I saw you last did you?" He said, curious as to how it got there.

[.:Blu:.]

Dan stood up from his chair and walked out of the private viewing room. "Uh Sir, where are you going?" a security asked. "Humph.... I'm just going to have some fun is all.... If anybody comes in here, just tell 'em I'm gone, got it?" "Yes Sir." Dan then walked off towards the stands. "I wonder if I can sense anybody powerful here. If I'm lucky, I might find one of the Six....." As Dan continued to walk through the stands, Elliot noticed Dan. "Huh? Hey it's you." "Huh? Oh, it's you.... (Why does this loser keep showing up?.... Should I just get rid of him? Hehe, that would be a little bit entertaining....)" Dan thought to himself. "So are you in the tournament uhh?" "Elliot, nice to meet you." "Elliot huh? Well, the name's Dan.... So, are you?" "I wish I was, but I'm not. And even if I was, I wouldn't be able to compete. I don't have a duel runner....."

 

"I see.... Let me ask you a question..... If you had a duel runner and you were able to join would you?" "Definately! But, of course that's impossible....." "Follow me...." Dan then walked away casually. Elliot then stood up and followed Dan. "Uhh, where are we going?" "I'm gonna get you into the tournament and a duel runner." "What?! Really?!" "I don't lie...." Dan and Elliot arrived at the main building. "Mr. Dan, what are you doing here?" the Tournament Co-Director asked. "I'm here to sign up this guy." Dan casually pointed to Elliot with his thumb. "Him? Uhh, but Mr. Dan, I'm afraid it's already too late for new registration-" "{THUD!!!} Do you think I'm asking you? I'm telling you, so just do it and stop with your meaningless excuses." Dan stated as he slammed his fist onto the table. "Now Elliot, let's go get that duel runner...." Dan then walked out of the door.

 

"Umm, thank you sir." Elliot said as he rushed out to follow Dan. "Umm, didn't you think that was kinda mean?" "Look, if you don't exert yourself, people won't take you seriously....." "Oh..... alright....." Elliot and Dan arrived at a storage room. "Hello Sir. Do you need to get a runner?" "Yes.... Elliot go ahead and pick out any one of them.... After you finish, Frank here will take you to the duelist zone for you to get ready." "Where will you be going?" "Somewhere....." Without another word Dan walked off. "I say he won't pass the first round..... Oh well, at least he will get the chance to be defeated by me....."

[Serenade]

Jane looked at his hand, and then her hand again, "Yeah... I know the feeling. It actually just appeared when I was with Zack and a few people he seemed to know... it was really weird. I had to ditch out on him, I felt so bad." She returned back to the original topic of them, "Hey... Do you think it's just us? Or... are there more of us?" she leaned in closer to him, letting her emotions take control, she was scared of being alone in something she had no idea about, and she wanted protection from someone strong like Kane, "Because... if that's true, I don't want you to leave me by myself in this. We need to stay together..." she looks into his eyes, her extremely light eyes staring into his...

[RE-Mastered]

Aster stood next to the window in her room. The sunlight shined through it directly at his deck. "Another day, wasted searching for the stupid card," Ryan sighed and picked up the deck running his fingers through the cards. "Why did it have to be me!" Aster yelled. For the last few years he had to use this ancient deck and all it's old tatics while the rest of the world evolved. "O come now, were not that bad." a strange voice said. Aster looked arpund the room but no one was there. "What's going on, am i going crazy or something?" Aster said stareing into his deck.

[BANZAI!!!!]

"Well, we each have a monster attribute symbol, right? So I would assume that EARTH, FIRE, WATER, AND DARK are marks too. So I guess there are four more of us, If that theory is correct." He said, pondering. " I argree, we should stick together, especially if more people like that woman from yesterday show up." Kane smiled gently and put his hands on Jane's shoulders as he said this. "Don't you worry. I won't leave you alone in whatever this is. You can count on me, ok?" He stared back into her gaze, a little bit transfixed by it, in fact.

[RE-Mastered]

Out of nowhere an explosion came from the street alley. Suddenly he saw a sort of camoflaged figure in the light of the explosion and since his room was on the first floor he grabed his deck and jumped out the window to check it out. "Hay you, why are you running from an exploseion?" Aster activated his duel disk and inserted his deck. "If you don't want to tell me then I can just pull the information out of you." Aster was looking foward to a chalange, even with his lame deck.

[evilfusion]

Derek paged through the rule pamphlet, doing his best to memorize as many of the rules as he could. The Wicked Avatar was remarkably silent for a change, and Derek could only imagine it was trying to find something to exploit for victory, or some method to gain an advantage. Personally, Derek found the idea of competing in a tournament under entirely different guidelines that few, if any, of the participants could be expected to know, much less have mastered, was absurd, but it didn't matter to him, really. No matter his opponent, he could crush them. He had already picked the monster he would command.

 

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Meanwhile, Madeline had circled back to the stadium grounds, observing the track with sharp eyes. So, this is where the battles will begin? she mused to herself. How interesting. She shrugged and turned to leave. Maybe another walk could do her some good. She had time to kill, after all.

[Serenade]

[spoiler=OOC] Sorry about not responding fast. I went out to go cash a check from a painting I sold today.

Jane nods, "yeah... I guess there COULD be more of us..." she blushed when he put his hand on her shoulder... she was almost in tears she was so scared yet emotional. She had no idea what she was really doing... she was so young. Too young to comprehend the emotions in her mind, and she released it with... a kiss. She leaned into him entirely and kissed him, having to stretch up a little to reach his face. It was so intense for her, but she felt so wrong for doing it at the same time... What if she was just doing this because she was scared and not because she had feelings for him? She felt so bad just thinking about the possibilities that she disconnects from him, running away in tears, with her emblem still shining bright, she cried more as she ran away.

[BANZAI!!!!]

OOC: No need to apologize to me. I kept you all waiting for almost a week, remember?

 

IC: Kane bent back a little in surprise as Jane's lips touched his, and his pulse quickened. He felt strange, kissing a girl he'd just met yesterday, but then again, a lot of strange things had happened to him, so why should this be different? Suddenly, Jane pulled away, and ran off in tears. "Hey! Wait!" Kane yelled, running after her. He was concerned now " What the hell would make her do that?" he wondered to himself. Seeing that he couldn't catch her, he decided to peruse the interior of the stadium. He walked off in a random direction and began to look around, still dumbfounded by what had just happened.

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

"wake up.....wake up.....WAKE UP FOR THE LOVE OF....."

 

That was one way to wake up in the morn....well, late afternoon, and it wasn't exactly the way that Seth wanted to be awoken in, of course, he didn't want to be awakened at all. His eyes opened slowly, the blurry figure in front of him eventually becoming clear and revealing to be his assistant Claire, she did not look happy at all.

 

"Sheesh, can't you wake me up like a human being would?" he asked as he rubbed his temples from the ear-shattering scream he just suffered from.

 

"I would if you didn't have the sleeping patterns of a dead Rhinoceros....you don't move even upon an earthquake, I know you took the name Sloth, but does that really mean you have to literally be one?"

 

"That I do, my dear...." he joked as he stood up to place his deck belt on, he looked at her and realized there had to be a reason for the wake up call. "So...what do I have on the agenda for today?"

[evilfusion]

As Madeline was about to leave the stadium area, her eyes caught sight of that girl, the one who had been watching her duel with Kane, running off with tears in her eyes. Her curiosity getting the better of her, she walked in the direction the girl had come from. Who or what had made the girl cry? Smirking to herself, she continued walking until the first logical candidate came into view. Madeline froze in place. So...they hadn't been kidding when they said the boy had survived the duel with her. Walking, not more than twenty feet away, was the familiar build of Kane.

 

Interesting... she thought. I wonder...would he recognize me in my robes? And where's his little pet dragon?

[.:Blu:.]

Elliot was inside the storage place looking around for a duel runner. "Wow, so many interesting duel runners around here."

 

"Please becareful with the duel runners."

 

"Huh? Oh, right, I'll becareful." Elliot continued to look around the place to find a suitable duel runner. "This one has horns on it..... And this one has creepy skeletal paintings on it..... Not really what I look for in a duel runner..... {Sigh} Oh well, gotta be positive!" After awhile of searching, Elliot found a blue duel runner that had an icy pattern to it. "This one's good. Alright, I've found my duel runner!"

 

"Okay, now I'll have that ready for you when it's your turn to duel. Now follow me to the Duelist Waiting Room."

 

"Right." The two left the storage room and headed off.

 

Dan arrived back at the private room and sat down once again on his chair. "So, is my duel runner ready?"

 

"Yes Sir."

 

"Good...."

[Guest Merciful Idiot]

"What?" Ran had to ask, twitching. He didn't know how those other two idiots were feeling and he didn't care either. Besides, all card games are the same. Either way, he had his Duel Ru-It's not a Duel Runner, it's called a D-WHEEL-nner ready in case the tournament involved them. It was state-of-the-arc technology. Have you ever visited the time of Atlantis? They had D-WHEELS faster than your DUEL RUNNERS. And Protheus was increasingly getting on his nerves. He had to obverse the area, and act not suspiciously so as to not get suspected by these two people he had joined up with. Because of the rules, he may have no choice but to use The Wicked Eraser. Besides, if the opponent manages to defeat it, their monster would be sucked up by it's erasing power.

[RE-Mastered]

Aster drew his card. "Please, yu'll need more more powerful cards if you want to beat me!" But in reality Asters deck was not much better than amature. Not only that but he could feel a weard persance from him and that monster, this was just to weard. "I summon Ordean Shining Swordsman in defence mode [lv 4 1600/1400] and thanks to it's effect Ordean Dark Swordsman is also summoned in defence mode!" [lv 4 1800/1000] so i'll end my turn by setting a facedown, I end my turn." Aster smiled.

[Bringerofcake]

His D-Wheel chosen, and the modified Deck for Riding Duels stored safely where he needed it to be, Aifeldt felt that his waiting time was spent wandering about the grounds of the tournament. Of course, he HAD some knowledge of how to duel and operate under the conditions of a Riding Duel. Just after he'd exited the waiting room and entered the main concourse (was that what it was called? A concourse?) he saw Madeline again. This time, she was standing stock still, watching some boy and a girl. The girl was doubled over, or something similar, and appeared to be emotionally overcome. The boy...Aifeldt had no idea what the boy was doing. But certainly, the whole scene was a bit odd. Aifeldt kept moving, realizing there wasn't any good reason for anyone to be suspicious of him. He was simply walking in a direction that happened to have some sort of drama play out on the other end.

[Serenade]

Jane burst into her room, eyeliner running down her face. She sat there for a moment, traumatized by her own thoughts. She decided that if anyone came into her room, she didn't want to look like this. She gets up to notice the cut in her jacket, running up the left forearm all the way up to the shoulder. Being that she was already in moderate shambles, she started to cry and fall to her knees, leaning up against the wall to the little bathroom each dorm room had. She sort of half-crawled to her basin, using it as a support to get up. She looked in the mirror, looking in at her image. She's an 18 year old girl, staring into her mirror crying, with eyeliner running down a face she used to think was beautiful... Her black tanktop was revealing, her skinny jeans curved down to give people just a visual taste of what she might be wearing. She hated herself just a little inside. She looked at the back of her hand again. What kind of woman was she. Did she deserve this? Why did the world depend on her to use whatever this power is?

 

She cleaned her face off and shrugged off her feelings against herself. She had to be a woman. She wasn't a little girl anymore. She needed to be strong and live up to her actions. She walked back out into the hallway, wearing a black hoodie pulled over her head, with a short flannel skirt that, when looked at from above, would cover only down to her lower thighs/ high knee area. She walks out with her knee high converse into the lobby, looking for Kane, she felt so sorry for running off. She at least wanted to apologize.

[RE-Mastered]

What was going on? Did that attack actuly hurt him? He looked down and saw he was...bleading. "Who...who are you?" Aster said as he fell to the ground. His cards flew out of his duel disk and landed all around him. In the last few moments e could hear the paremidics rushing towards..

[Lord JZ of the Enigma]

"Do I really need to walk? I hate walking," Seth said in quite a nonchalant manner, you couldn't tell if he was actually annoyed or he wanted to strike up a conversation, however Clair just ignored him.

 

"Sir, soon enough we'll have to separate I have someone else I have to attend to." she stated solemnly,

 

"Ah, attending the boyfriend I'm guessing?" with that he earned himself a slap to the back of the head, even though Claire was the one that hurt her hand.

 

"You know I have no one....but that's besides the point, owowow....I'm just saying that the higher-ups need me right now and you still have to choose a Duel Runner, and since you've delayed choosing one until now you'll have to choose one from the garage in the lower areas of the stadium, please tell me you can do that....."

 

"Don't worry about it, I don't have narcolepsy or anything....but wouldn't that be grand?" He joked as they stopped at a crosswalk, one would lead to the offices, the other to the stadium.

 

"Good luck in the tournament Mr.Rivers" she said as she left in a hurry, as if she didn't want to hear his goodbye.

 

"sheesh.....what was that all about?" he looked forward and saw the stadium entrance. "Hmm, I could go in now...or I could take a small nap..." He had a small pang of pain in his chest as he sensed someone nearby with a few troubles clouding there mind. "Someone needs to seriously chillax....this looks like a job for...the procrastinator.....maybe" he joked as he followed the sense of turmoil.

[RE-Mastered]

Aster woke up in a hoispital bed. "Whats going on?" he wndered. He could hear voices from outside the door. "He didn't suffer any serious damage but it'll be awile till hes in pirfect health." said one of the voices. "Keep me posted on his condition, can you leave us for a second." said the second voice "Of corse." and the first person walked off and in walked his father, he sat down on the chair. "Aster," said his father picking up the deck that travled on his family for ages. "You haven failed me again as a sun and a duelest, you are no longer worthy of this deck." Asters father took the deck and walked out of the room. Aster frowned until his father left then he smiled. "I can finaly build a deck my own deck." Aster looked over at the table, it had a card on it. "Dad must have left this one behind." Aster walked over and picked it up, the card was Ordean Majestic Angel. "Come now, we werent that bad, were we?" it was the same strange voice from his room. "Look down here," said the voice. Aster turned toards the image of the card and it projested infront it. "Ahhhh, and I going insane?" Aster said "Keep it down will you, i am the spirit of that card in your hand and you are the gurdian of my deck." "Umm ok, so whats up?" Aster said. "Not much, but listen we need you to find the card that hold the key to this deck." "Ok you mean the one that no one in my family has ever been able to find, sounds easy." "Watch your mouth anyway you are the only one in your family who id worthy of useing the deck, and as for that card i'll show you where to find it."