"You can't." Raven shot Arkith a cold look, "Her Seiyaryu is always there for her."
"I doubt it. I play Graceful Charity!" He drew three cards and quickly threw out two. "I now activate Monster Reborn on one of the cards I just tossed, Gaia the Feirce Knight! I'll have my Gaia trade in his old clunky spear for this. A Thunder Blade!" Gaia held in his hand a sword crackling with electrical energy. "Gaia has 3100 attack, more than enough for my last chance!"
My face-down card will end this now. Too bad.. Kaomi smiled.
"ATTACK!" Arkith ordered.
"Reveal Mirror Wall!" Gaia crashed into a mirror. "Take it out, Seiyaryu!"
Arkith's Life Point counter flashed 1600 to represent the loss.
"Payback for the Nationals, Arkith! Seiyaryu, obliderate!"
Arkith's Life Point counter reached zero. The Discs deactivated, and Kaomi put her dusc away. A small crowd had gathered, and some applauded. Arkith walked slowly over to Kaomi and handed her a locator card.
"I'm sorry you had to loose Kycoo, Arkith." Kaomi gratefully accepted the locator as Arkith removed Kycoo from his graveyard.
"I'm not. Kycoo the Ghost Destoryer held me back. Besides, it's not that rare." he turned and started to walk away.
"Hey!" Kaomi stopped him, "We're even. One and one. See you next tournament." Kaomi walked past Raven, "Let's go, Raven."
Arkith watched them walk arround a corner. He closed his eyes. A spectator approached him.
"Why didn't you play that one dragon in your hand?" the spectator asked.
"Because I'm just a dilivery boy. Speaking of..." Arkith left the crowd and walked closer to the tree he jumped out of. He walked up to a man in strange clothes who had a lot of pircings. "Here." he handed the man the card, "Where's my end of the deal? Your boss made me a promise!"
The man did not speak, just handed Arkith a small package.
Arkith laughed, "Next tournament indeed, Kaomi."
- O -
Kaomi and Raven sat in a restarunt, eating away at their lunches.
"Tell me more about the Nationals." Raven begged.
"Allright. It was a few months ago. We were at the American Nationals. I had just taken some looser out and walked out of the arena to see who I'd be facing in the Top Sixteen. I met Arkith and we went to duel. The duel built nicely, sadly eventless. Then I summoneed Seiyaryu. I attacked Kycoo but wasn't perpared. He used the same two weakness traps he used in our last duel and defeated my Seiyaryu. It was easy for him to take me out after that because I was shaken. I helped by paying 2000 Life Points to Mirror Wall. Point is, I was in shock that that looser had managed to fry Seiyaryu sso eaisly." Kaomi looked at the Kycoo laying on the table, "I got mad and took him out. I'll expect I will have an uphill struggle next time we meet. I took his favorite card. He won't let me off eaisly." she sighed and slid Kycoo into her deck. "I'm afraid, Raven. I don't want to loose my Seiyaryu."
After lunch, the two set off once again.