capeandcowllogs | DUEL MONSTERS TOURNAMENT ♠ ROUND 1

WHO: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
WHERE: Central Park and Harbor
WHEN: Saturday March, 20th early afternoon
WARNING: Swearing and card games
SUMMARY: Round 1 of the duel monster's tournament.
FORMAT: Whatever you want!

Months of planning and recreating an empire from the ground up was finally reaching its climax. Fireworks shot into the sky as the workers ran out of the way trying to avoid the large screen to which the firework stands were attached. If there was still anyone who had not heard that a Duel Monsters Tournament was being held in the city, the sights and sounds quickly informed them.

The same set up was found in the two locations. One at the center of Central Park and the other stretched next to the water by the harbor. The rules the duelists had been given told them where to meet and when to be sure they would be there for the beginning. Since Kaiba couldn’t be in two places at once, especially as he had his own duel to prepare for, a video had been pre-recorded to start the event. The screens turned on at the same time, the KaibaCorp logo flashing across the screen. It disappears to show a montage of duels fought by different monsters. Those who are paying close attention may even notice cards that Kaiba could have only found out about in the City. The montage ends with a Blue Eyes White Dragon destroying everything in its path and causing the screen to fade to white.

The blank screen suddenly changes again to a video of Kaiba. “Welcome to this City’s first chance at a Duel Monster’s Tournament!” it started. “You have had plenty of time to prepare, and now it’s time to show exactly what you can do. At the end of this announcement the tournament will officially start.

“Find your opponent and duel! The winner will go on to the next round. The loser can go home. You have all been given copies of the rules. Any cheating will be punished.”

The Kaiba in the video paused, emphasing a big-brother idea about how cheating would be caught and punished. The look changed into a smirk as he threw his hand forward and dramatically proclaimed,

“Game Start!”

(Make your own threads here for your individual duels. You can log as much of the action as you want. Remember you need to PM me with the winner of each duel before Sunday 11pm CST (whether or not the log is finished). If I don’t have a winner I will proclaim one for you to keep things moving. In case you've forgotten the brackets are here)

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Billy was freaking out slightly. It didn't occur to him that it might not be a good idea to cause a scene in front of the crowd and potentially freak out the kid. All that was occurring to him was that he had burns on his arm and his jacket was now crispy.

"Her dragon set me on fire! I thought these things were supposed to be holograms, how the heck did it burn me?!"

Maggie stayed near where she saw Aki, but looked over to Billy. "I don't know, but it must be a malfunction in the hologram lasers."

She had a feeling that wasn't the case, but she was interested in both calming him and Aki down, not to mention crowd control. "Do you need a medic?"

Billy frowned, looking at his duel disk than at his arm. "Nah, I'm fine. I've had worse. These are just burns, I'll get some ice and some aloe and I think I'll be fine." He hoped he would be fine.

Somewhere nearby, Aki was hiding behind a tree, rubbing her eyes. Unfortunately for her, people were gathering and staring at her, like she was a freak. A monster.

"Go away!" she screamed, reaching for her duel disc. Instantly people began to back up.

She nodded. "Cold water may be better than ice," she advised. She frowned, otherwise awaiting Aki's response. Someone tried to demand to her what she knew about the situation, and Maggie soundly ignored them.

Aki's reaction to the crowd was a simple one, especially in light of people becoming angrier as she refused to answer their questions. Finally, it became too much. The group was small but they became more and more aggressive until, finally, one grabbed at her arm.

That set her off. The next thing anyone knew, there was a giant rose (http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Rose_Tentacles) grabbing at people with its tentacles. This caused those people who weren't caught to scream and scatter almost instantly; those who were caught could only scream.

A soon as there was an opening for her to leave, however, Aki bolted.

"Aki!" Maggie needed to chase after her, but she couldn't let the bystanders remain in danger.

Shouting with an authority she was unaware of having, she barked to anyone still around to get out of the way. She then thrust out a hand, paper shooting out of her sleeve like water out of a geyser. More monsters wouldn't do well, she thought, so the paper just formed a massive wall that snaked rapidly toward the rose creature, carefully wending its way between it and anyone nearby and keeping it separated from the crowd.

Paper reinforced by paper mastery becomes durable and strong as carbon steel--but remains "paper thin"--resulting in something strong and sharp enough to slice through nearly anything. Maggie's control was good enough that she would not cut through anything she didn't want to, but the edge of the paper wall sped toward the rose's tentacles, hopefully keenly slicing them off so that anyone trapped on the side--now blocked from the monster by the wall itself--could free themselves.

Once she was sure everyone was free, if she was able to do so, Maggie commanded the wall to wrap itself around the rose monster to keep it bound. That was more a trick Michelle or Anita would use, and she wasn't sure how long it would hold, but it would have to do. She then bolted off in the direction Aki ran, hoping she had not gotten far.

Thankfully, the monster seemed to dissipate into pixels after a few minutes. All of the paper fluttered to the ground in a large pile.

Meanwhile, Aki was running. She hated everyone. And everyone hated her. Just like back home. Monster, that's what they saw her as! It didn't matter what anyone else said...

Maggie had in fact been yelled at before for using her powers in public. It was never really something she worried about, for all that it might have made sense.

But she found for once she was worried about excessive power use; when Aki was already freaking to the reaction of the crowd, she didn't want to make the crowd any more nervous than she had to. So she leapt onto a park bench instead, and then scrambled to pull herself up onto a retaining wall, where hopefully she could spot Aki's crimson hair in the area.

Her mind took her back to the time Anita flipped out after seeing the holographic flashback in the British Library. Michelle and Maggie had been able to catch her and calm her down--but she had been Anita's big sister for two and a half years at that point, and Anita was over twice Aki's age. Maggie fretted inwardly that she would neither have the words nor the knowhow to be able to calm the little girl down, let alone find her. She wished to the depths of her soul that Michelle would magically appear and solve everything, but that was not to be.

((The icon is lying, but it's her "looking for something" pic))

Edited 2010-03-23 00:10 (UTC)

DUEL MONSTERS TOURNAMENT ♠ ROUND 1

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