Lu: OK, welcome to the new, revised version of the New Tournament. Anyone who doesn't want to read the whole thing again can check the chapter I put up next, where I'll have a complete summary of the changes. OK, a quick summary of what I plan to do, right here, right now.
1. Mai's age is going to be 24 again. I was getting a bit sick of pretending she was 17, so she is 24, like usual now.
2. There is a official JoeyxMai get together scene when I get to it. I don't think it was fair to JoeyxMai fans, including myself, to only have them getting together from Tristan's point of view. Therefore, I promise that I will put in a proper getting together scene when I get up to revising that chapter.
3. Some chapters will be melded together. For example, the original first three chapters will be melded into one, just to get the chapters longer. So yeah... longer chapters.
4. I will add in proper descriptions and fix up the life points and stuff. Promise!
Yami Lu: So, are these your promises?
Lu: Yes. Those are the guaranteed changes. No more promises other than that. Anyway, I suppose I better give a proper summary.
Kaiba's hosting another tournament - but what could go wrong? The answer - a hell of a lot. Friends will become enemies and enemies become friends when the duelling world goes topsy-turvey and the gang is forced to compete in the Conflict Duel tournament. COUPLES: JoeyxMai YamixTea SetoxSerenity
Lu: Once I've finished revising, that will be the official summary. OK, I'm gonna tell y'all what each character is wearing as well. Main character, mind you, not any of the minor ones
Yugi Motou: Usual. His blue school uniform, combined with trainers and a buckle choker.
Yami Motou: Same as Yugi except with boots instead of trainers.
Joey Wheeler: What he wears in the DDM arc. No, not the puppy dog suit. The white t-shirt, jeans and blue jacket.
Tea Gardener: 'SPIRIT' yellow sleeveless top, red mini-skirt, platform shoes with knee-high socks.
Tristan Taylor: Duellist Kingdom outfit. Beige trench coat, and whatever he wears under that. I can't actually remember.
Seto Kaiba: Battle City outfit. White trench coat, loads of buckles, boots, black shirt and pants and belt.
Mai Valentine: Battle City outfit. Sleeveless lavender jacket, white tie up boob tube, purple mini-skirt, black knee-high boots.
Serenity Wheeler: Usual outfit. She doesn't really change much.
Mokuba Kaiba: Battle City outfit. Does he even change between the two series? I think he does.
Duke Devlin: Ditto. BC outfit. OK, so I'm getting lazy. I just can't remember what he was wearing, OK?
Ishizu Ishtar: Ditto.
Marik Ishtar: Ditto.
Malik Ishtar: Ditto.
Ryou: BC outfit.
Bakura: Whatever Ryou's wearing.
Lu: I think those are all the main characters... I got kinda lazy for the last couple... If you can't remember what they were wearing, , which has excellent episode-by-episode picture guides and episode translations. If you don't know where to find it, check my links on my user-lookup-profile-thingamabob. Anyway, here is the first chapter (for the old reviewers, chapters 1-3). Enjoy!
Chapter 1 - Gone to the Dogs
"Hey, Yuge, whatcha doin' dis weekend?" asked Joey Wheeler cheerfully on his way home from school. On his left side walked Yugi Mouto, the vertically-challenged winner of both Duellist Kingdom and Battle City tournaments. On Joey's right walked Tea Gardener, long-time best friend of Yugi. On Yugi's left was Tristan Taylor, one of their best friends.
"Not much. Just helping Grandpa in the games shop," said Yugi.
"Can I come and help too?" asked Joey hopefully.
"Sure Joey. Grandpa can always use some extra help," replied Yugi. Yugi knew that Joey would prefer to hang out with his friends than stay home. His home life wasn't exactly perfect.
"Err... guys? Kaiba's coming," said Tristan quietly. Joey's attention immediately switched from Yugi to Seto Kaiba, host and finalist of the Battle City tournament and CEO of KaibaCorp.
"Hello, Yugi," sneered Kaiba, his ice blue eyes showing no emotion. "What are you doing?"
"We're going to his Grandpa's game shop," said Tea coldly. All of Yugi's group were despised by Kaiba, and the feeling were generally mutual. She started to push past Kaiba, but he stopped her.
"Ooh, going on a date, are we?" he said, looking from Tea to Yugi. Yugi made an angry noise, and tried to pounce on Kaiba, but was too short to break free of Tristan, who was holding him back. It was unusual for Yugi to lose his temper like this, but he had once liked Tea, and was still rather sensitive about the subject. He had gotten over his crush on her once he found out that she liked another.
"Leave dem alone, Kaiba," snarled Joey, brown eyes flashing. Joey was a hard person to get close to, but if you did manage to become his close friend, there were many benefits. Joey was very protective of his friends, and would even give his life for his very close friends. Namely Yugi and his 'friend' Mai.
"What's in it for me?" asked Kaiba. Kaiba wasn't one to just stop teasing someone because he was told to. He wanted something in return. Joey remained silent, but stood his ground, scowling at Kaiba furiously.
"OK, I'll make you a deal," said Kaiba. "I'll leave your friends alone, mutt, if you do what I want for two weeks, excluding weekends." Joey thought about it for a moment.
"How long will you leave dem alone?" he asked suspiciously. Out of everyone in the world, Kaiba was one of Joey's most despised people. The story was a long one, but to cut it short, Joey had tried to become Kaiba's friend when they first met, but Kaiba has thrown it in his face and squashed it beneath his heel.
"However long," said Kaiba. A plan was already forming in his mind - a cruel plan, which he knew would humiliate Joey and tear apart his already shaky self-confidence.
"How often do you reckon we'll see you in de next three months?" asked Joey.
"A lot, if you're planning on coming to my tournament," said Kaiba. "I would think almost every day once the tournament's started." Everyone had already heard about Kaiba's new tournament. The name for it was undecided at the moment, but Kaiba was apparently close to happy with the name he had thought of. Kaiba had actually accepted Joey as a fellow duellist, which seemed almost incomprehensible to Joey, but he wasn't complaining.
"And you won't tease dem at all?" asked Joey.
"Nothing, no teasing, no putting down, no anything," said Kaiba. 'At least not to your friends, mutt.'
"Don't do it, Joey," said Tea, her blue eyes wide and fearful. "You don't know what he's going to make you do." Joey thought about it for a moment. He carefully weighed up the pros and cons. On one hand, he would be saving his friends from taunts for the next three months. On the other hand, he had no clue how far Kaiba might go with his new found power over Joey.
"OK," he said finally. He reached out his hand. Kaiba shook it, a sneaky grin already plastered on his face. Once Joey saw that sinister look, he regretted his agreement to Kaiba's conditions, but it was too late to go back on his word.
"Now, come with me, Wheeler," smirked Kaiba.
"I'll see you guys tomorrow," said Joey, following Kaiba doggedly in the direction of KaibaCorp. He hated having to do what his worst enemy told him to, but he had made a deal, and Joey wasn't one to break his word. Yugi looked after him desperately, his violet eyes wide.
"Joey, be careful, OK?" he shouted. He knew that Kaiba might go too far, and Joey no longer had any power to stop him.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. It's all worth it for you guys," said Joey, winking, although he wasn't so sure about that himself.
"Anyway, Kaiba, what exactly do you want me to do?" he said, turning to Kaiba.
"Oh, I've got plans," said Kaiba with a smirk. Joey could feel a feeling of dread growing in the pit of his stomach, and he always trusted what he felt in his gut.
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Kaiba and Joey entered the gates of KaibaCorp. A small boy with a mass of long, messy, jet black hair came to greet them. This boy was Kaiba's 12 year old brother, Mokuba Kaiba.
"Hey, Seto! Hey, Joey! What are you doing here?" he said curiously. After all, it wasn't every day his brother came back to KaibaCorp with someone, let alone his worst enemy, Joey Wheeler.
"Hey Mokuba. I made a deal with your brother," said Joey. "He leaves Yugi, Tea and Tristan alone if I do what he wants me to do for two weeks."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" whispered Mokuba in Joey's ear as Kaiba walked off to do something. Mokuba knew that Kaiba could be cruel to people he didn't like, and he knew that Joey wanted to stick up for his friends, but he wasn't sure that it was really a good idea on Joey's part.
"Don't worry," said Joey, winking. "Nothing he can do can stop me." Mokuba shrugged. Despite his doubt, he knew it was Joey's choice in the end, and nothing could really change his mind once it was made up. Joey was stubborn, and nothing could change that. Kaiba approached Joey, holding something in his hands.
"Well, Joey, I hope you're a man of your word," said Kaiba, handing Joey the bundle. Joey looked at it. It was a puppy dog suit.
"Oh no," groaned Joey. He had been forced to do this once before, by Duke Devlin, creator of Dungeon Dice Monsters. Kaiba had been furious that he hadn't been the first to manage it, and was determined to at least be the second.
"We made a deal," said Kaiba. "If you want to pull out, I think I might just go and find Yugi and Tea..."
"Err, no, wait," said Joey. He gulped, and began to put it on. He pulled down the headpiece, feeling smaller by the second.
"That's a good boy," said Kaiba, patting Joey on the head. "Now get down on the floor." Joey started muttering inaudibly, but he got down on the floor. He felt downcast, and tried to shield his eyes with the headpiece.
"I better go," said Mokuba quickly, violet eyes showing that he was trying to conceal laughter. Despite being Joey's friend, he found the concept of him being in a dog suit amusing, to say the least.
"Yes, I'll see you later," said Kaiba.
"See you, Mokuba," said Joey.
"Bad boy," said Kaiba, nudging Joey in the ribs with his foot as Mokuba walked away. A slight pain jabbed through his ribs, making him gasp.
"Ouch, what was dat for?" asked Joey, clutching his ribs. A small ache still remained in his ribs.
"You only speak in dog," said Kaiba.
"Woof," said Joey sourly. He meant to be sarcastic, but Kaiba smiled evilly. Joey was already dreading the next two weeks with a passion.
"Good boy," said Kaiba. Joey scowled and growled. [A/N: I'm a poet and I didn't know it!]
"Bad boy, you must not growl at your master," said Kaiba, nudging Joey again. Joey grasped his ribs again, but said nothing. He didn't want to feel the heel in his ribs again.
"Come, mutt, now we must supervise some duels," said Kaiba, and began walking towards the building. Joey started to get up, but Kaiba turned around.
"You have to walk like a dog as well as talk like a dog," said Kaiba. Joey got down on his knees again, and started to crawl after Kaiba. "Good boy," said Kaiba, patting Joey on the head again.
"Woof," said Joey sadly.
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They entered the building. Duellists all around stared at Joey, crawling beside Kaiba. Joey shadowed his eyes with the dog suit, making sure that no one could figure out it was him. Kaiba entered a room with Joey at his side. There were two duellists there: Yugi as the spirit of his Millennium Puzzle [A/N: a.k.a. Yami] and Rex Raptor.
"Joey?" said Tea, standing at the sidelines. Her eyes widened as she saw Joey's tangled blonde hair under the headpiece of the suit.
"Woof," said Joey. He didn't look Tea in the eye, because he was ashamed of what he looked like in the dog suit, and letting Kaiba manipulate him like this.
"Kaiba, how can you do this to him?" said Tristan furiously, eyes flashing dangerously. Kaiba smiled.
"We did have a deal," he smirked.
"Joey, why don't you just stand up?" said Tea.
"I don't think you know how much dose shoes hurt," said Joey. Kaiba nudged him again. Joey howled. This was met by a huge facefault by most of the people in the room.
"Joey, are you OK?" shouted Yami, the spirit of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle, from the duelling podium. He looked exactly the same as Yugi, except about half a foot taller and he had blonde streaks through the centre of each of the arms of the star.
"Bow wow," said Joey, massaging his ribs where Kaiba had kicked him.
"Now, mutt, sit," said Kaiba. Joey sat down cross legged. "No, mutt, sit like a dog," said Kaiba. Joey got back onto his knees and sat on them. "There's a good boy," said Kaiba.
"Kaiba, leave Joey alone," shouted Yami. Like Joey and the rest of their gang, Yami was very close to his friends, and would stick up for them no matter what.
"We made a deal, and now he has to hold up his end of the bargain," said Kaiba. He knew this would stump Joey, as he always kept his word.
"Joey, why don't you just call off the deal?" said Tea.
"No, I made a..." started Joey, but then stopped. "Woof, woof," he said sourly. Kaiba patted him on the head.
"Now you're getting the hang of it, mutt," said Kaiba. Joey looked like he could kill, but he stayed where he was.
"Remember, Joey, this is the first out of ten days you will have to do this," said Yami. Joey nodded. He was perfectly aware of this fact, and was not looking forward to any of it.
"Let's begin this duel!" said Rex. It was the first thing he had said since Joey and Kaiba had entered the room. Yami turned to Rex and nodded.
"Why are you duelling?" asked Joey, and then realised he had talked, and cowered as Kaiba kicked him once more. Rex sneered for a moment and then turned back to the preparations for the duel.
"We ran into Rex on the way home from school," said Tea. "He wanted to prove that he had improved since we last saw him."
"Woof," said Joey as sarcastically as he could, as he sincerely doubted that Rex could beat the spirit of the Puzzle. The duellists drew their first cards.
"I summon a monster in defence mode," said Rex. "And end my turn." Yami drew a card.
"I summon the Gemini Elf!" shouted Yami. "Gemini Elf, attack!" The twin elves summoned up two balls of light, which they then shot at the face down card, and the monster that was inside was destroyed.
"Come, puppy dog, there is much to do," said Kaiba. He was eager to leave, because this duel was going to be one-sided, and he had a lot to do.
"Why did you take me in dere den?" Joey asked crossly. "Woof," he added as an afterthought.
"I wanted your friends to know what I was doing to you," said Kaiba with a small smirk. They exited the room, Kaiba striding confidently and arrogantly, Joey crawling silently behind him.
"Good luck, Yuge, woof, bark, bow wow," shouted Joey over his shoulder.
"Mutt, you can't just say something and then add a couple of dog sounds after it," said Kaiba. "You have to talk in dog speak the whole time."
"Woof," replied Joey. Kaiba patted Joey on the head.
"Now, let's go and find Mokuba for the daily report," said Kaiba, and strode towards a large meeting room. Joey crawled behind him, trying to hide his face from the duellists surrounding him.
Lu: Like it? I don't know where I'm going to put the songs when I get to them. Anyone got any suggestions? Or should I just take them out all together? PLEASE HELP ME HERE!
Yami Lu: Well, I reckon you should take the whole story out, but I know that's not going to happen. Ever. So my opinion doesn't count.
Lu: True. Hey, who are you hanging out with?
Yami Lu: Bakura and Marik.
Lu: You and Bakura getting together any time soon.
Yami Lu: I DON'T LIKE HIM!
Lu: Sure... anyway, review! Ya know that little blue button down there? The one that says go? PRESS IT!