By Himself (Open)

[Mokuba Kaiba]

Yet another dull day after taking off to Kaiba Corp at nearly 4am in the morning to take care of a recent computer database disaster that had occurred over night. His brother was off on yet another business trip to who knows where as Mokuba was only half listening as his brother Seto had left. That would make the fourth trip in only a week! He admired his older brother, however it just seemed that he was always too busy to do anything else but keep the company in line. Mokuba sat at one of the pristine tables in the food court of the Domino Shopping Mall. Large groups of kids as well as a few adults littered the courtyard either eating their food, talking, or dueling. Taking a drink from the pop he had bought, he rested his head on the table for a moment and closed his eyes.

It was tough being a Kaiba, especially when Seto wasn't home to take care of all the usual things. This involved the company board meetings along with the various reports he had to hear from all of his staff. It was all so confusing sometimes to him, however Seto took the time to teach him a little bit every day...at least when he was home. It was the weekend after all and he could be having fun, but that spirit just wasn't in him at the time. No homework at all and he still felt down, most likely because of how early he had to get up and listen to all of the problems and propose fixes. He had ordered the technicians to retrieve the back up server files and go from there. Mokuba knew quite a bit about computers, however he just needed to be there to give the technicians directions as they knew his older brother was out of town.

He watched a few passing teens before deciding to get up and take a bit of a walk around for himself. Tossing his drink into the nearby trash can, Mokuba took off out of the food court with his hands in his pockets. The mall was 'the' place to be most of the time and he frequently ran into the people he considered friends, however Seto despised them. This would of course mean Yugi and his gang. He hoped inside of him to meet them or any of them while wandering around for a bit, but it might not be likely. Mokuba stopped for a moment to watch as two kids began a duel with a small crowd that started to gather.

It reminded him how much he wanted to try it sometimes, however he just never could find the time. That and he didn't want to dissappoint his big brother, after all he was the best wasn't he? Of course he was. Nobody was better than Seto. Watching for a few more minutes before continuing on, Mokuba wandered aimlessly around to the various stores. A game arcade for one and then a small clothing store where he had bought his favoire vest. It wasn't too long before even this became a bit boring to the young Kaiba who soon found himself taking the elevator to the second level. Upon exiting the glass elevator, Mokuba situated himself on one of the various catwalks that littered the second floor, staring down upon the happy shoppers.

[Raku]

Raven was wandering about in the mall, doing his typical pranks, doing small pick pockets, messing with the mall security and checking out the girls walking around.. "Gahh! Im bored!!" he said locking eyes with a young lady about his age as she continued walking and he kept looking until he almost fell.. "phew..." he looked away as he swiped his forehead with his index finger and snapped his middle finger and thumb when he was at the end of his forhead..

he noticed some minor duels going on, he tended to ignore them for awhile as he looked around and seemed there was nothing better to do.. he approached a nearby stand, bought an Icee and watched as the kids Dueled on..

[Vernadal Zerato]

It's rare for someone to go about thier life with no real standing to it, it's even more rare for them to simply walk about not really searching for anything at all. Vandal had found himself wandering into a single mall watching children duel and enjoying himself simply for the sake that he hadn't been able to watch others enjoy dueling for some time. All the children where running about playing each other card for card, back and forth.

Vandal even found himself helping out children and playing a hand full of fun games with them from time to time. Yet even so he still found it somewhat difficult for him to think properly with each and every thing that he was doing. True that he was here to find duelist who would hold some answer to Mr. Pegasus but the way things where going he couldn't even find a duelist who seemed to be able to tell him what three times three was.

So it was for him that he continued this patteren for some time moving throughout the mall watching children play on and on. And he would stop the watch, help, and even play a handful of games but none of which would allow him to gain any real answers to what he was looking for or even if dueling any of the people in the building would bring about any answers to the questions that he had for himself.

Sensing that he would gain no real information from watching all of these duels or even looking through any of them. So it was decided that he would simply go on and find something to pass the time for a while. Noticing that he was in the area of a icee stand, Vandal took it upon himself to purchase one and attempt to eat it. A failed attempt was made when he realized that he was attempt to balance his duel disk alongside with his ice treat. It was then that he realized that there was a young man next to him attempting to follow the same routine, sit, watch, and eat icee. It was then that Vandal took it upon himself to question the young man.

"Fine day for a duel today, ain't it?"

[Raku]

Raven slurrped on his Icee as he watched the duels go on, when he heard a man talking to him he raised an eyebrow and turned to him "Maybe, What's in it for me?" Raven said with a slight smirk on his face "I don't duel random people eating Icee next to me unless I have a reason to.." he said trying to be a smart allec.. "so if your really not worth my time, I would nicely suggest you getting out of my face and out of my sight.. I don't duel amatuers" Raven tossed aside his Icee cup and began to walk away, waved with the back of his hand as he walked off..

[Vernadal Zerato]

As the young man proceeded to walk off Vandal found himself laughing uncontrolably, it had been some time since someone had honstely spokebn to him so freely and it had long since been a while befor it happened so fast. Unable to control himself from having listened to the words the duelist and being unable to listen to them without laughing behind him. It was just too much for him to bear without breaking a smile.

" Oh man you are rich I will say that. How about this would you consider me an amatuer if I knew everything about just about every card you could play. Would I be an amatuer if I was not only one of the men who helped design your cards but also the one who created them? Or better yet would I be an amatuer if I said the only man to have ever bested me in a duel was the one and only Maximillan Pegasus the one who designed the game itself." His laughter quickly faded away and in it's place took a much deeper tone of voice, one that not even the most biggest of the top dogs could not notice. "Or would an Amatuer like yourself be afraid of being caught up in a whirlwind of power that he himself is not willing or able to escape from."

Pulling for his duel disk and aiming it at the man's back as if makign a challenge Vandal could only speak in the deep and darken tone that he had made so very much his own. "That is unless you would rather me hack into the data bases and find out who you are and what deck you run, and them take it upon myself to makle your life a living nightmare simply because you dared to speak to one of the greatest men you will ever met as a Amatuer. And trust me I have both the means, the power, and the money to do it too. You Amatuer........."

Vandal originally came simply looking for a simple level of enjoyment but what he found was someone who really and trully needed to be knocked down a couple of steps befor he realized exactly where he stood in the peckinhg order of the world.

[Raku]

Raven turned around and let out a laugter "Funny thing is you swear just because your Pegasus' Lackey means you could do whatever you want? Don't you know my name is not down on the list of duelist you kiss ass.." he activated his Duel disk as he pointed it directly at the man "Talk is cheap, Let's Duel!" he drew his first five cards as he drew an extra one..

"I'll start off!" he observed his hand for a few seconds "very well, I'll summon my Archfiend Soldier, and place two cards facedown! that's it for now.." he let out a smirk as his turn finished.. his right hand began to shroud in a Light and Dark Aura as it slowly grew Here we go again.. he thought to himself locking his jaws..

CiH: 3
Monster(s): 1 Archfiend Soldier 1900/1500
Spell/Trap: 2 Facedown
Lp: 8000

[Mokuba Kaiba]

Mokuba couldn't help but notice the sudden change and events of what had occurred at the small stand down below. What appeared to be two complete strangers suddenly caught up within a duel with each other was simply interesting. He caught a few words thrown back and forth and immediatly recognized one word. Pegasus, the creep that imprisoned him and his brother such a while back. It made him cross his arms slightly at the fact that one of the duelists down there worked for him. He silently rooted for the other young boy who had challenged the employee.

Mokuba cupped his hands over his mouth as he shouted below. "Beat that Pegasus lackey!" He removed his hands after shouting and simply gave a thumbs up, hoping the purple haired boy would look up and see his hope. Mokuba thought about taking the elevator back down for a closer look, however realized his vantage point was much more promising up on the catwalk.

[Vernadal Zerato]

It took only a slight second realize that not only was the young man whom Vandal had challenged was outmatched, but also that he outclassed in taking up his challenge yet Vandal himself was never one to disappoint. "You make it sound like just because I work for Mr. Pegasus that I have the feeling of perfection around me, well I guess you could say that that's about half true but the other half of it might have something to do with the power of my own."

Vandal drew his five cards as well and then drew his sixth with a slight look of uneasiness about it. Not as if he hadn't drawn what he wanted just more along the lines that he was unable to clearly understand what it was he had drawn. It was more along the lines that what he had drawn was something that he wasn't really looking forward to drawing at such an early stage of the duel itself. But rather then simply sitting back and waiting for something intresting to happen Vandal took it upon himself to play things slow and take care of himself while he waited for his opponent to do something worth while.

"I'll set one monster card face down, and then I'll play the card that was a gift from the man whom you say I tend to Kiss up to. The Spell card Heavy Strom, and just in case your as dumb as you make yourself out to be then I'll tell you what it does exactly, this card enables me to destroy all spell and trap cards on your side of the field." Unable to even look up at his opponent after playing his spell card and waiting for his reaction Vandal looked down to his hand once more with the exact same look of concern in his eyes. "Exactly who invited you to the party so soon." He spoke to himself as he continued to look down at the card with a look of unease.

CiH: 4
Monster(s): 1 Facedown
Spell/Trap:
Heavy Storm- Destroy all spell and trap cards on the field
Lp: 8000

[Sandywheeler]

A familior voice came from behind Mokuba.He turned around just in time to see a pretty girl with black hair and blue.She was about 15 years old and she looking at him.From her head to her toes she was dressed in vinyl.That only meant one thing she was Sandy.So what were you looking at Mukuba she asked.Nothing much there is a duel down there.She tries to tell what the guys below the are saying but all she can make is a few words.Seto is dueling lets go and see the duel she tells he.Mukuba and Sandy walk down the stairs and find a better place to waitch the duel.