Chapter 4: - Armour
"Well," Yugi considered when they were unable to push the huge stone door open and they'd examined every side of the stone square to try to find a way in, resulting in nothing, except the fact that Yugi had managed to find another capsule, in which had been Gaia, the Fierce Knight. "Up and over?"
Serenity reached for her Ancient Fairy Dragon capsule, sighing when she realised that it was silver. "No good." She said, showing them.
"Step aside," Solomon had Summoned Skull out, "I may have a bad back, but Summoned Skull doesn't."
They moved. No one wanted to get hit by the attack that arched from the fiend monster's arms and struck the door, only to dissipate on contact.
"Launch!" Joey's voice caught them by surprise, taking off on his Baby Dragon, soaring up high as the sun sank further.
"Here I come, to save the day!" Joey crowed, making Yami shake his head and Yugi to groan, at least before Baby Dragon attempted to fly over the wall.
Then he swooped into an invisible barrier, which pushed the pair backwards, causing them to go crashing to the floor.
"Big brother." Serenity rushed over, as Joey yelped and picked up the capsule that had been his Baby Dragon, "Are you alright?"
Yugi was trying to think fast, they were running out of time, just half an hour until sunset, if Yami was correct, and they still hadn't found out how to get in…
The four statues at the corners of the stone box had to be the clue, but he didn't know… why had that lit up?
His train of thought having jumped the rails for a moment, he turned to look at his family, to see if it was something they were doing.
Ombre was sat down, glowering at the door as if it was Kaiba, Bakura, Dumbledore or Snape or possibly all of them, Yugi wasn't sure and didn't want to ask, and Serenity was checking Joey was alright from the fall. Yami was being rather rude about the door, and to be honest Yugi was surprised the Pharaoh hadn't noticed the light…
His grandfather was stood, with his arms crossed, giving the door a stern look.
In front of one of the statues.
Yugi got it.
"Guys, we need to mimic the," Yami noticed the light just in time for it to go out as Solomon turned to look at the heir, "Statues."
"You sure?" Joey asked.
"Uh huh." Yugi nodded, explaining quickly, "There was a light on the door just know, while Grandpa was mimicking that statue," Yugi pointed to the one in question.
Yami caught on, "So if we copy the other three statues…"
The Ombre caught on too, getting to her feet. "The door should open!"
"We'll play statue." Joey indicated himself, Serenity, Ombre and Solomon, "You two go through and find the place where the spirit sleeps."
"Right." Yugi and Yami nodded; sure they were looking for a casket of some kind.
"Come on sis."
There was a pause of around five minutes, much longer then they could really afford, considering that they had so little time left, and then all four lights lit up and the door opened.
Yugi and Yami raced inside, running along the path and into the temple.
"There it is!" Yugi got ahead of Yami by a couple of paces and, competitive spirit kicking in, Yami sped up too, causing him to fail to stop in time before the floor disappeared out from under them.
They fell…
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Sunset…
It was almost exactly seven pm on Monday the 11th of July, and his family had been missing for a grand total of almost exactly eight and a half hours.
It was times like this that made Seto Kaiba, the CEO of the (second) biggest gaming corporation in the world was glad that he wasn't one of these CEOs who required several shots of brandy to get up in the morning, yet alone deal with a crisis.
What he wanted to do was go with his search party, what he was doing instead was much more useful, arranging transport for when they inevitably did show up, providing bribes to allow his team into India to search, getting a hold of medical support that he could trust to be discreet… just in case.
"Big brother?" Mokuba was both worried and tired as he watched his brother's secretary bring him both the files on Kaiba Corp's medical personnel and another cup of his brother's preferred crunch time coffee.
Black, with no sugar, the strongest type of bean Seto could get (and there was no question of price), and which stunk out the CEO's office.
"We'll find them Mokuba." Seto said firmly, though it sounded hollow to both of the Kaiba Brothers. It wasn't only Mokuba who remembered just how hard a time of it Kari had had trying to find them when they had vanished from the face of the Earth last summer.
Mokuba watched Seto take a swig of the death coffee and tear through the files, considering each and every individual before putting them into one of three piles.
Yes, no, and maybe.
Mokuba was surprised at the outcome.
There were three Muggle doctors in the no pile, one healer in the yes pile and both a Muggle doctor and a healer in the maybe pile.
"You can't send a Muggle, surely." Mokuba frowned, wondering what Seto was up to, "There's bound to be magic involved."
"We tend to forget, Mokuba," Seto said, considering the maybes, preferring to send two to tend to at least five people, "That not all of our enemies have magic. A healer wouldn't have much idea of how to treat some conditions. For all of the magical world's 'advancements' in the field of healing, they cannot treat many conditions that a Muggle Doctor could easily deal with."
"Oh."
"Besides, this Doctor has dealt with magical injuries before. He was the one who somehow managed to keep Wheeler from dying during Battle City."
Mokuba shuddered, remembering Joey's collapse during his game against Marik.
It seemed so long ago now…
Mokuba's mobile phone rang again and Seto gave it a glare that… if it was possible… would have caused it to explode or melt into a glob of plastic and metal.
It had been going off intermittently since Mokuba had started phoning people and if he heard it go off one more time…
"Hermione." Mokuba had started checking the caller id automatically, just to make sure that he had the right person and didn't have to ask over and over again who was calling. "Yes, I tried it. It doesn't work…"
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Joey wibbled and wobbled and proceeded to fall over.
"Oww, my legs cramped up." He moaned.
"Big brother?" Serenity called from her corner, leaving the stance she'd taken to look over, concerned.
Ombre swore as the door shut, locking Yugi and Yami inside.
"Guys…" Serenity backed up as her statue started to move.
"Launch!" Joey said without preamble, sending out his Panther Warrior to fight the huge stone warrior.
"Launch!" Ombre and Serenity called simultaneously, Solomon's Summoned Skull already fighting.
Criosphinx and Ancient Fairy Dragon appeared and started fighting.
"What's taking so long?" Ombre hissed as her sphinx was batted backwards by a huge stone hand. "Yugi, Yami… come on…"
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"You okay?" Yami asked, helping Yugi to his feet.
"Ouch. How did you flip in mid air like that?" Yugi demanded, glowering at the four walls that now surrounded them. "And how are we getting out of here."
"We need to get some dragon monsters." Yami sighed, looking up.
It looked like they'd fallen around two storeys, down into a small room at the bottom of a rather narrow tunnel.
"We don't have long. We have to get out of here." Yugi growled, leaping to try to reach the hole, only to find that he couldn't just high enough. "Ra damn it…huh?"
With a terrifying rumble, the walls had just started to close in on them.
One of Yugi's capsules started glowing, he launched it quickly, only to find that it was Kuriboh's and the little fiend monster was bouncing up and down excitedly by the hole.
"Kuriboh, what is it?" Yugi asked, squeaking as the walls reached about a third of the way in respectively…
"Yugi, look!" Yami pointed to a capsule that they hadn't seen when they had fallen and rested on a ledge just to one side of the hole they'd fallen through.
"I can't reach it." Yugi growled, pausing, "Try climbing on my shoulders…"
Yami had another plan. He took a running jump and just about managed to grab the ledge, pulling himself up and tapping the capsule.
Yugi cringed and backed up against a wall, as the walls made the room about half the size…
There was a blinding purple light…
"Yugi!" Yami cried as he heard the walls crunch together.
"I'm okay." Yugi breathed as the light died down. "Mahado saved us."
Yami looked to his right, where the Dark Magician, who had carried Yami out of the hole, was also holding Yugi.
"The sun!" Yugi panicked.
"The others…" Yami gestured.
Yugi and Yami looked at each and then at the Dark Magician. 'I hope this works…'
"Magical Crossroads!" The two bellowed at the same time.
Purple light shot from them, forming a crisscross of light that shielded the four ally monsters in the corners, and into beams of light that cut through the enemy monsters.
They stayed long enough to see the first of them crumple and then the Dark Magician deposited them inside the temple, vanishing into his capsule as the walls began to fall.
"Open, open, open!" Yugi pleaded with the lid of the casket as the light faded from the doorway…
The lid came off just as the sun slipped below the horizon.
"We did it!" Yami breathed a sigh of relief...
For all of about three seconds, until another bright light blinded them.
They had to blink the bright spots away as the golden light died down, having caught them by surprise.
There was another tablet with hieroglyphs on it, which, if Yami was right, was the underside of the casket lid they had just pushed off, the casket itself was stood on its end and had turned into a glowing doorway, and a really strange looking gold coloured set of upper torso armour floated in mid air.
"Yugi! Yami!"
The air turned around at Joey's tone, dreading what they were going to find. "What's wrong?"
"Gramps' monster got smashed."
"Are you alright?" Yugi asked of his grandfather, eyes wide.
"We have more important things to worry about." Solomon waved the concern off, though he still felt battered and exhausted. "Like that tablet, for example."
Yami turned around to look at it, "Pass through this doorway and thy journey shall start, five trials will follow to test they heart. But I warn you this trial is not for the weak, only a true warrior can unearth what you seek."
"Another riddle?" Joey groaned.
The armour glowed, turning into a golden light that surrounded Yugi, dying down to reveal the armour now fit him perfectly.
"Me?" Yugi poked it, "You picked the wrong guy, you want him over there…" He looked at Yami, whose face revealed none of the emotions that Yugi could sense boiling below the surface.
"You're both warriors, Yugi." Joey said slowly. "I guess the armour had to make a choice…"
"Someone has to wear it." Solomon nodded.
Serenity was aware of the tension between Yugi and Yami as Yugi found he couldn't remove the armour, but didn't know what to say.
"Yami…" Yugi hesitated.
Ombre was aware that Yugi's new equipment would most likely make him a target. She was also aware that Yami really wouldn't want Yugi wearing that armour… but there was no choice. The game had to be played, the rules adhered to and Yugi had to be capable of winning the game, because the game itself wouldn't have chosen him otherwise.
That was the only good point about playing a Shadow Game.
It ALWAYS had to be fair…
"We have to go." Solomon said firmly, looking at the 'twins'. "There's nothing Yugi can do about being chosen, Yami."
"I'm not angry." Yami replied, waving it off.
He was though, Yugi could sense it and, though he took point as they passed through the golden light, he couldn't help feeling that it was Yami who was supposed to be in the armour, not him.
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Dudley Dursley was oblivious, he couldn't help it, but even he noticed when Harry snuck off several times over the course of the day to make phone calls, noticed when Sirius Black, Harry's godfather and his guardian, noticed that Harry's phone went off and the teen had wandered off so as to not be a pain, his shoulders would sink and he would gain a look that Dudley couldn't understand.
Something was going on with Harry that Black couldn't help with.
Dudley didn't know how he felt about it. On one hand, his father had taught him that anything that was even slightly unusual was evil or freakish and that he should have nothing to do with it.
And yet here he was, going on a world tour with his freak cousin and his freakish godfather.
He didn't know up from down anymore.
If they hadn't taken him in, he would have been left to fend for himself when his parents had been killed. No-one had wanted to take him in, no one had wanted him… except the cousin that he had tormented for the greater majority of his childhood…
It was taking real effort, but he was trying to change his views on magic and wizards. There was no point to hating the only people who would take him in, and they didn't seem freakish to him when they weren't doing magic…
Was it a betrayal of his parents…?
Dudley tried not to think when he could help it, so all these thoughts weren't exactly welcome, but they were there anyway.
Harry was gone for around five minutes this time and when he wandered back, he was scowling.
"No sign?" Sirius asked.
"None." Harry groaned, sinking into a chair, "It's like they vanished off the face of the Earth…"
"Aliens?" Dudley asked.
Harry sighed and shrugged, trying not to get irritated at his cousin. It wasn't Dudley's fault that Harry's family were missing, that Harry wanted to be with his link partners more then here…
"What do you want to eat?" Sirius asked, passing Harry a menu.
Harry stared at the menu, which was written in both English and German.
"You're going to need your strength for tomorrow's big tournament." Sirius pointed out, "It's supposed to be an international one."
"It will be." Harry nodded, remembering that he had to try to find one of his Clan sisters when he first arrived at the Stroder Corp Tournament. He skimmed the menu and picked out his lunch. "This is what, tournament five?"
"Six." Sirius corrected, "We're doing well so far."
Since the bet had been Sirius's fault, Harry didn't comment. As many Tournaments as they could get to before a set dates, when Harry's group, and his 'rival', his Clan Sister, Mai Valentine, would meet at the Game Shop in Japan.
The one who went to the most Tournaments won…
Harry had been at a few one day things recently and that odd three day thing, and that one two day one…
He wasn't completely sure that this was a particularly good idea, travelling all over the world to visit tournaments that was, but he was enjoying it… he just hoped there was good news before tomorrow's tournament started…
Serenity reached for her Ancient Fairy Dragon capsule, sighing when she realised that it was silver. "No good." She said, showing them.
"Step aside," Solomon had Summoned Skull out, "I may have a bad back, but Summoned Skull doesn't."
They moved. No one wanted to get hit by the attack that arched from the fiend monster's arms and struck the door, only to dissipate on contact.
"Launch!" Joey's voice caught them by surprise, taking off on his Baby Dragon, soaring up high as the sun sank further.
"Here I come, to save the day!" Joey crowed, making Yami shake his head and Yugi to groan, at least before Baby Dragon attempted to fly over the wall.
Then he swooped into an invisible barrier, which pushed the pair backwards, causing them to go crashing to the floor.
"Big brother." Serenity rushed over, as Joey yelped and picked up the capsule that had been his Baby Dragon, "Are you alright?"
Yugi was trying to think fast, they were running out of time, just half an hour until sunset, if Yami was correct, and they still hadn't found out how to get in…
The four statues at the corners of the stone box had to be the clue, but he didn't know… why had that lit up?
His train of thought having jumped the rails for a moment, he turned to look at his family, to see if it was something they were doing.
Ombre was sat down, glowering at the door as if it was Kaiba, Bakura, Dumbledore or Snape or possibly all of them, Yugi wasn't sure and didn't want to ask, and Serenity was checking Joey was alright from the fall. Yami was being rather rude about the door, and to be honest Yugi was surprised the Pharaoh hadn't noticed the light…
His grandfather was stood, with his arms crossed, giving the door a stern look.
In front of one of the statues.
Yugi got it.
"Guys, we need to mimic the," Yami noticed the light just in time for it to go out as Solomon turned to look at the heir, "Statues."
"You sure?" Joey asked.
"Uh huh." Yugi nodded, explaining quickly, "There was a light on the door just know, while Grandpa was mimicking that statue," Yugi pointed to the one in question.
Yami caught on, "So if we copy the other three statues…"
The Ombre caught on too, getting to her feet. "The door should open!"
"We'll play statue." Joey indicated himself, Serenity, Ombre and Solomon, "You two go through and find the place where the spirit sleeps."
"Right." Yugi and Yami nodded; sure they were looking for a casket of some kind.
"Come on sis."
There was a pause of around five minutes, much longer then they could really afford, considering that they had so little time left, and then all four lights lit up and the door opened.
Yugi and Yami raced inside, running along the path and into the temple.
"There it is!" Yugi got ahead of Yami by a couple of paces and, competitive spirit kicking in, Yami sped up too, causing him to fail to stop in time before the floor disappeared out from under them.
They fell…
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Sunset…
It was almost exactly seven pm on Monday the 11th of July, and his family had been missing for a grand total of almost exactly eight and a half hours.
It was times like this that made Seto Kaiba, the CEO of the (second) biggest gaming corporation in the world was glad that he wasn't one of these CEOs who required several shots of brandy to get up in the morning, yet alone deal with a crisis.
What he wanted to do was go with his search party, what he was doing instead was much more useful, arranging transport for when they inevitably did show up, providing bribes to allow his team into India to search, getting a hold of medical support that he could trust to be discreet… just in case.
"Big brother?" Mokuba was both worried and tired as he watched his brother's secretary bring him both the files on Kaiba Corp's medical personnel and another cup of his brother's preferred crunch time coffee.
Black, with no sugar, the strongest type of bean Seto could get (and there was no question of price), and which stunk out the CEO's office.
"We'll find them Mokuba." Seto said firmly, though it sounded hollow to both of the Kaiba Brothers. It wasn't only Mokuba who remembered just how hard a time of it Kari had had trying to find them when they had vanished from the face of the Earth last summer.
Mokuba watched Seto take a swig of the death coffee and tear through the files, considering each and every individual before putting them into one of three piles.
Yes, no, and maybe.
Mokuba was surprised at the outcome.
There were three Muggle doctors in the no pile, one healer in the yes pile and both a Muggle doctor and a healer in the maybe pile.
"You can't send a Muggle, surely." Mokuba frowned, wondering what Seto was up to, "There's bound to be magic involved."
"We tend to forget, Mokuba," Seto said, considering the maybes, preferring to send two to tend to at least five people, "That not all of our enemies have magic. A healer wouldn't have much idea of how to treat some conditions. For all of the magical world's 'advancements' in the field of healing, they cannot treat many conditions that a Muggle Doctor could easily deal with."
"Oh."
"Besides, this Doctor has dealt with magical injuries before. He was the one who somehow managed to keep Wheeler from dying during Battle City."
Mokuba shuddered, remembering Joey's collapse during his game against Marik.
It seemed so long ago now…
Mokuba's mobile phone rang again and Seto gave it a glare that… if it was possible… would have caused it to explode or melt into a glob of plastic and metal.
It had been going off intermittently since Mokuba had started phoning people and if he heard it go off one more time…
"Hermione." Mokuba had started checking the caller id automatically, just to make sure that he had the right person and didn't have to ask over and over again who was calling. "Yes, I tried it. It doesn't work…"
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Joey wibbled and wobbled and proceeded to fall over.
"Oww, my legs cramped up." He moaned.
"Big brother?" Serenity called from her corner, leaving the stance she'd taken to look over, concerned.
Ombre swore as the door shut, locking Yugi and Yami inside.
"Guys…" Serenity backed up as her statue started to move.
"Launch!" Joey said without preamble, sending out his Panther Warrior to fight the huge stone warrior.
"Launch!" Ombre and Serenity called simultaneously, Solomon's Summoned Skull already fighting.
Criosphinx and Ancient Fairy Dragon appeared and started fighting.
"What's taking so long?" Ombre hissed as her sphinx was batted backwards by a huge stone hand. "Yugi, Yami… come on…"
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"You okay?" Yami asked, helping Yugi to his feet.
"Ouch. How did you flip in mid air like that?" Yugi demanded, glowering at the four walls that now surrounded them. "And how are we getting out of here."
"We need to get some dragon monsters." Yami sighed, looking up.
It looked like they'd fallen around two storeys, down into a small room at the bottom of a rather narrow tunnel.
"We don't have long. We have to get out of here." Yugi growled, leaping to try to reach the hole, only to find that he couldn't just high enough. "Ra damn it…huh?"
With a terrifying rumble, the walls had just started to close in on them.
One of Yugi's capsules started glowing, he launched it quickly, only to find that it was Kuriboh's and the little fiend monster was bouncing up and down excitedly by the hole.
"Kuriboh, what is it?" Yugi asked, squeaking as the walls reached about a third of the way in respectively…
"Yugi, look!" Yami pointed to a capsule that they hadn't seen when they had fallen and rested on a ledge just to one side of the hole they'd fallen through.
"I can't reach it." Yugi growled, pausing, "Try climbing on my shoulders…"
Yami had another plan. He took a running jump and just about managed to grab the ledge, pulling himself up and tapping the capsule.
Yugi cringed and backed up against a wall, as the walls made the room about half the size…
There was a blinding purple light…
"Yugi!" Yami cried as he heard the walls crunch together.
"I'm okay." Yugi breathed as the light died down. "Mahado saved us."
Yami looked to his right, where the Dark Magician, who had carried Yami out of the hole, was also holding Yugi.
"The sun!" Yugi panicked.
"The others…" Yami gestured.
Yugi and Yami looked at each and then at the Dark Magician. 'I hope this works…'
"Magical Crossroads!" The two bellowed at the same time.
Purple light shot from them, forming a crisscross of light that shielded the four ally monsters in the corners, and into beams of light that cut through the enemy monsters.
They stayed long enough to see the first of them crumple and then the Dark Magician deposited them inside the temple, vanishing into his capsule as the walls began to fall.
"Open, open, open!" Yugi pleaded with the lid of the casket as the light faded from the doorway…
The lid came off just as the sun slipped below the horizon.
"We did it!" Yami breathed a sigh of relief...
For all of about three seconds, until another bright light blinded them.
They had to blink the bright spots away as the golden light died down, having caught them by surprise.
There was another tablet with hieroglyphs on it, which, if Yami was right, was the underside of the casket lid they had just pushed off, the casket itself was stood on its end and had turned into a glowing doorway, and a really strange looking gold coloured set of upper torso armour floated in mid air.
"Yugi! Yami!"
The air turned around at Joey's tone, dreading what they were going to find. "What's wrong?"
"Gramps' monster got smashed."
"Are you alright?" Yugi asked of his grandfather, eyes wide.
"We have more important things to worry about." Solomon waved the concern off, though he still felt battered and exhausted. "Like that tablet, for example."
Yami turned around to look at it, "Pass through this doorway and thy journey shall start, five trials will follow to test they heart. But I warn you this trial is not for the weak, only a true warrior can unearth what you seek."
"Another riddle?" Joey groaned.
The armour glowed, turning into a golden light that surrounded Yugi, dying down to reveal the armour now fit him perfectly.
"Me?" Yugi poked it, "You picked the wrong guy, you want him over there…" He looked at Yami, whose face revealed none of the emotions that Yugi could sense boiling below the surface.
"You're both warriors, Yugi." Joey said slowly. "I guess the armour had to make a choice…"
"Someone has to wear it." Solomon nodded.
Serenity was aware of the tension between Yugi and Yami as Yugi found he couldn't remove the armour, but didn't know what to say.
"Yami…" Yugi hesitated.
Ombre was aware that Yugi's new equipment would most likely make him a target. She was also aware that Yami really wouldn't want Yugi wearing that armour… but there was no choice. The game had to be played, the rules adhered to and Yugi had to be capable of winning the game, because the game itself wouldn't have chosen him otherwise.
That was the only good point about playing a Shadow Game.
It ALWAYS had to be fair…
"We have to go." Solomon said firmly, looking at the 'twins'. "There's nothing Yugi can do about being chosen, Yami."
"I'm not angry." Yami replied, waving it off.
He was though, Yugi could sense it and, though he took point as they passed through the golden light, he couldn't help feeling that it was Yami who was supposed to be in the armour, not him.
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Dudley Dursley was oblivious, he couldn't help it, but even he noticed when Harry snuck off several times over the course of the day to make phone calls, noticed when Sirius Black, Harry's godfather and his guardian, noticed that Harry's phone went off and the teen had wandered off so as to not be a pain, his shoulders would sink and he would gain a look that Dudley couldn't understand.
Something was going on with Harry that Black couldn't help with.
Dudley didn't know how he felt about it. On one hand, his father had taught him that anything that was even slightly unusual was evil or freakish and that he should have nothing to do with it.
And yet here he was, going on a world tour with his freak cousin and his freakish godfather.
He didn't know up from down anymore.
If they hadn't taken him in, he would have been left to fend for himself when his parents had been killed. No-one had wanted to take him in, no one had wanted him… except the cousin that he had tormented for the greater majority of his childhood…
It was taking real effort, but he was trying to change his views on magic and wizards. There was no point to hating the only people who would take him in, and they didn't seem freakish to him when they weren't doing magic…
Was it a betrayal of his parents…?
Dudley tried not to think when he could help it, so all these thoughts weren't exactly welcome, but they were there anyway.
Harry was gone for around five minutes this time and when he wandered back, he was scowling.
"No sign?" Sirius asked.
"None." Harry groaned, sinking into a chair, "It's like they vanished off the face of the Earth…"
"Aliens?" Dudley asked.
Harry sighed and shrugged, trying not to get irritated at his cousin. It wasn't Dudley's fault that Harry's family were missing, that Harry wanted to be with his link partners more then here…
"What do you want to eat?" Sirius asked, passing Harry a menu.
Harry stared at the menu, which was written in both English and German.
"You're going to need your strength for tomorrow's big tournament." Sirius pointed out, "It's supposed to be an international one."
"It will be." Harry nodded, remembering that he had to try to find one of his Clan sisters when he first arrived at the Stroder Corp Tournament. He skimmed the menu and picked out his lunch. "This is what, tournament five?"
"Six." Sirius corrected, "We're doing well so far."
Since the bet had been Sirius's fault, Harry didn't comment. As many Tournaments as they could get to before a set dates, when Harry's group, and his 'rival', his Clan Sister, Mai Valentine, would meet at the Game Shop in Japan.
The one who went to the most Tournaments won…
Harry had been at a few one day things recently and that odd three day thing, and that one two day one…
He wasn't completely sure that this was a particularly good idea, travelling all over the world to visit tournaments that was, but he was enjoying it… he just hoped there was good news before tomorrow's tournament started…